Eating Psychology & Intuitive Eating Counseling
Did you know that 95% of all people who lose weight on a diet gain it back within one to five years? And that more than 60% of them gain even more weight than they had initially lost? If you’ve been there before, you’ve probably tried a new diet, hoping this time around it would be “the one.” But it never is, because depriving our bodies of nourishment affects negatively our metabolism and our psyche. Many studies have concluded that dieting actually promotes weight gain. The pursuit of weight perpetuates weight cycling (yo-yo dieting), and harms our relationship with food, mind, and body.
When we re-learn the process of trusting our bodies, its messages, and we treat ourselves with self-compassion understanding and prioritizing what we truly need, we can finally find benefits. This how we become Intuitive Eaters, which can lead us to decrease loss-of-control and binge eating, emotional eating, and body dissatisfaction, while also lowering triglycerides and blood pressure, and increasing HDL (good cholesterol). Intuitive Eating can help improve self-esteem, well-being and optimism, body appreciation and acceptance, pleasure from eating, proactive coping, psychological hardiness, and life satisfaction.
As an Eating Psychology and Holistic Health Coach, I use a cutting edge, meaningful, effective and groundbreaking approach into working with body image, emotional eating, overeating, yo-yo dieting (aka weight cycling), binge eating, orthorexia, and all nutrition-related health issues that have an emotional and/or mind-body component, such as mood, immunity, hormone imbalances, high cholesterol, blood sugar imbalances, and digestive challenges. Our work together plants the seeds for that profound change we need to experience in order to change our relationship with food for the rest of our lives...
What does an Eating Psychology Coach do?
As an Eating Psychology Coach, I don’t see your eating challenges merely as a sign that “something is wrong with you” – but as a place where we can more fully explore some of the personal dimensions in life that impact food, weight and health. Oftentimes, our eating challenges are connected to work, money, relationship, family, intimacy, life stress and so much more. By working on the places that are most relevant for you, success is more easily achieved. As an Eating Psychology Counselor, I support you with strategies and principles that are nourishing, doable, sustainable, and most importantly that yield long lasting results. By using an Intuitive Eating approach, I help you re-tune yourself with your body cues (interceptive awareness) and guide you into finding ways of coping with your emotions with kindness through ways besides food.
