The phrase
"diet mentality" refers to a way of thinking about food and eating that is focused on restricting or controlling what one consumes in order to lose weight. It often involves a rigid set of rules and can lead to an unhealthy relationship with food.
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Not only
does diet mentality inform how we feed ourselves, a dieting mentality sets unnecessary parameters on what we should look like!
I so understand your whiplash
of diet mentality as I get flashes of that every time I deal with the medical profession!
Eating Psychology Coaches help clients to understand that a
strong diet mentality undermines efforts to achieve good health.
You never have
diet mentality thoughts like, «I blew it, I might as well binge until I go to bed Sunday night and Start AGAIN on Monday» or «I'll finally DO IT tomorrow....
And here's where we are today: pushing back
against diet mentality, eating «clean», sugar - phobic, knee - deep in healthy fats, and working hard on intuitive eating... but we don't talk about weight loss.
Intuitive Eating & Alcohol Consumption from The Real Life RD. Robyn writes eloquently about how approaching alcohol with
a diet mentality can lead to excessive drinking, excessive eating, undereating, worse hangovers, etc., and she explains what a non-diet approach to alcohol can look like.
Making peace with food and rejecting
the diet mentality, therefore, is an important step to overcoming it.
Rebuilding my relationship with myself and my body — giving up
the diet mentality to embrace real, whole foods, and then guiding others to do the same!
Creating this habit of eating well frees you from
the diet mentality and allows you the wiggle room to live life and enjoy the slice of cake.
I went to Erica Leon's virtual group intuitive eating class, I truly gave up
the diet mentality and the tools.
I am so inspired by your writing, have followed you for a couple years and have «eaten up» pretty much everything you have «dished out» on all
these diet mentality mishaps.
If you need help with letting go of
the diet mentality contact a Health At Every Size Dietitian or health expert.
90 % of recovering from dieting is about
the diet mentality and diet attitudes, and only 10 % of it is about the physical.
Binge eating, on the other hand, is a reaction to
the diet mentality.
Where is
the diet mentality hiding?
Existing in a space with simultaneous fat shaming and push - back against
diet mentality is complicated.
The basis of intuitive eating is letting go of
the diet mentality.
I truly believe in an «everything in moderation» approach and encourage clients to ditch
the diet mentality and enjoy real, whole foods — and yes, that includes dessert!
In a nutshell, eating mindfully, or intuitively, means ditching
the diet mentality, honoring your hunger and fullness cues, making peace with food, respecting your body and discovering how to feel energized and satisfied with your health.
Eating Psychology Coaches know how to spot
a diet mentality and help clients begin to do the work to leave it behind.
Get over your fat fear and
diet mentality.
The only way it works is to get over
the diet mentality, the idea the «calories - in needs to be less than calories - out for weight loss», and all of the other myths we've been told in the last few decades.
Resolve to let go of
the diet mentality and begin connecting with your body to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full.
When we live with
a diet mentality, we are setting ourselves up for frustration.
If you still find yourself compulsively eating after establishing regular eating patterns and leaving
the diet mentality behind, then it's to dig even deeper.
With
a diet mentality, we believe there is always another, better diet around the corner, and restricting food becomes a way of life.
This is a sign that
the diet mentality may be deeply ingrained in you.
She believes in an «everything in moderation» approach and encourages clients to ditch the calorie counting and
diet mentality and enjoy real, whole foods - and yes, that includes dessert!
The first step of intuitive eating is to let go of
the diet mentality.
We will also explore how your «food rules» or
diet mentality have affected your past eating experience.
Lastly, ditching
the diet mentality is really about breaking so many misconceptions about what is needed to eat and live healthy.
Because it breeds more of an «all or nothing» mentality, or what I like to call
a diet mentality.
Some of the most important mindset shifts are ditching
the diet mentality and looking at life through an «abundance lens».
Resch is nationally known for her work in helping patients break free from
the diet mentality through the intuitive eating process.
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The Food Athlete is all about food strategies, no deprivation,
no diet mentality.
The «hunger - and - fullness diet» is my cheeky way of describing the perversion of intuitive eating that women fall prey to when they attempt intuitive eating with
a diet mentality --
She will help you ditch
the diet mentality, learn to feel your emotions instead of eat them and step into the person you were meant to be.