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Breaking Up With Diet Culture Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Breaking Up With Diet Culture - Feature Article in The Community Edition, Feb. 5, 2020                             This might be one of the hardest relationships you’ll ever need to end – but I can almost guarantee that it’ll make you a much better version of yourself. As a non-diet-dietitian, it’s my job to help people move away from diet culture when that’s their intention.   Diet culture, refers to any factor in our environment that makes us want to change our food/drink, activity, medication or supplement choices in order to change our body shape or size.   Diet culture is rampant everywhere – permeating into our lives from the multi-billion dollar diet industry, the fashion and beauty industry and even through some health care providers. Diet culture messaging targets all ages – be it through my kids’ Berenstain Bears books, weight loss ads targeting teens or 96-year-olds in the dining room at the nursing homes.   Diet culture’s toxic message is “one size must fit all and one diet fits all.” It fails to share that weight is 80 percent determined by our genetics or that 80-95 percent of people on diets regain the weight they’ve lost and often more within three years. It also fails to talk about the dangers of yo-yo dieting or how it is okay (and can be healthy) to not be thin.   Read more here as I discuss hormones, fatphobia, body autonomy, mental health, intuitive eating and balance. Intuitive Eating In Times of Stress Sunday, March 22, 2020   We all deserve and need nourishment during times of stress. How do we care for ourselves during times of uncertainty? We can still practice intuitive eating during a pandemic, as intuitive eating is based on self care, flexibility and gentle nutritition. Read more... 5 Ways to Approach Emotional Eating Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Emotional eating is often approached with shame, which for many is unbeneficial. This blog provides you with 5 shame less and kind ways to approach emotional eating as a window of opportunity into what is going on inside, with strategies to expand your toolbox of self-care. Written by Suzanne Dietrich, Registered Dietitian Gut Instincts Nutrition Counselling Read more...

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Breaking Up With Diet Culture

Posted by Suzanne Dietrich on Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Breaking Up With Diet Culture -

Feature Article in The Community Edition, Feb. 5, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This might be one of the hardest relationships you’ll ever need to end – but I can almost guarantee that it’ll make you a much better version of yourself. As a non-diet-dietitian, it’s my job to help people move away from diet culture when that’s their intention.

 

Diet culture, refers to any factor in our environment that makes us want to change our food/drink, activity, medication or supplement choices in order to change our body shape or size.

 

Diet culture is rampant everywhere – permeating into our lives from the multi-billion dollar diet industry, the fashion and beauty industry and even through some health care providers. Diet culture messaging targets all ages – be it through my kids’ Berenstain Bears books, weight loss ads targeting teens or 96-year-olds in the dining room at the nursing homes.

 

Diet culture’s toxic message is “one size must fit all and one diet fits all.” It fails to share that weight is 80 percent determined by our genetics or that 80-95 percent of people on diets regain the weight they’ve lost and often more within three years. It also fails to talk about the dangers of yo-yo dieting or how it is okay (and can be healthy) to not be thin.

 

Read more here as I discuss hormones, fatphobia, body autonomy, mental health, intuitive eating and balance.

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Intuitive Eating In Times of Stress

Posted by Suzanne Dietrich on Sunday, March 22, 2020

 

We all deserve and need nourishment during times of stress. How do we care for ourselves during times of uncertainty? We can still practice intuitive eating during a pandemic, as intuitive eating is based on self care, flexibility and gentle nutritition.

Read more...

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5 Ways to Approach Emotional Eating

Posted by Suzanne Dietrich on Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Emotional eating is often approached with shame, which for many is unbeneficial. This blog provides you with 5 shame less and kind ways to approach emotional eating as a window of opportunity into what is going on inside, with strategies to expand your toolbox of self-care. Written by Suzanne Dietrich, Registered Dietitian Gut Instincts Nutrition Counselling

Read more...

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