Intuitive Eating Dietitian and Nutritionist

Registered dietitian and nutritionist for intuitive eating

Our registered dietitian and nutritionist for intuitive eating will provide support, guidance and various nutritional interventions to positively impact your overall health and well-being.

Before we explore how our dietitian and nutritionist for intuitive eating can help, a little background information is necessary.

Dietitians on Intuitive Eating

What is intuitive eating?

The concept of Intuitive Eating was created by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, and took the dieting world by surprise as a framework of eating that trusts and honors the body’s physiology around hunger, fullness and sensory satisfaction derived from food.

The approach offers a sharp contrast to more rigid strategies, such as label reading, tracking macros and calories and measuring foods.

In contrast, food is consumed as fuel and meal intake is optimized to support one’s body to thrive.

Intuitive Eating takes the form of gentle nutrition, is grounded in body trust and acceptance and does not look at nutrition as a way to manipulate one’s physical appearance.

In essence, it is a weight-neutral approach that still supports health and wellbeing.

How can an intuitive eating nutritionist and dietitian help?

A registered dietitian and nutritionist who specializes in intuitive eating can help in the following ways:

Receive education from an intuitive eating dietitian pertaining to the tenets of the approach, if desired.
Observe the impact of diet culture and gently reject principles that no longer serve your health and wellbeing.
Identify and honour biological signals of hunger, including subtle hunger cues.
Make peace with food–let go of feared or banned foods from your repertoire to free yourself from uncontrollable cravings and possibly binges.
Discover the satisfaction factor of foods in order to feel satisfied and content with your food choices, ultimately helping you feel more in charge of your eating
Feel your fullness: connect with the sensation of feeling comfortably full upon meal completion and overcome the temptation to continue eating for emotional reasons.
Challenge the food police: stop scrutinizing your eating habits by letting go of unreasonable food rules, in order to experience less shame, guilt and disappointment about your eating dynamics.
Cope with emotions with kindness, not food: discover novel strategies for emotional regulation beyond reliance on food.
Respect your body: all bodies deserve dignity and size diversity is real. Making peace with your body is a prerequisite to harmonizing your relationship with food.
Get active and feel the difference, instead of militantly try to enforce a workout routine that depletes body and mind and is unsustainable.
Honour your health through gentle nutrition: look at the big picture when it comes to your holistic nutrition goals and avoid the trap of micromanaging each bite. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.
Pick the brain of an intuitive eating dietitian and nutritionist during the counselling sessions.
Provide ongoing support, as well as health and nutrition coaching.
And more.