Tag Archives: intuitive eating

Do you understand your eating?

The Dukan Diet, Rosemary Conley, Cabbage Soup, Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers – which diet plan are you on?

If you aren’t currently following one of these plans, it’s likely that you have at one time or another. Which is great, isn’t it – we all know the risks of overweight and unhealthy eating – how on earth would you know what, how much and when to eat without guidance from a diet plan?

Zoe Connor, Shipston-based freelance dietitian, is on a mission to help local residents discover a different way of thinking. Intuitive’ or ‘mindful’ eating is the process of rediscovering your own body’s internal physical cues to eating and living healthfully. It is a particularly useful approach if you feel that ‘dieting’ always fails for you – which, research tells us, it does for 80% of us.

See for yourself how intuitive your eating is – tick which of these statements apply to you: Continue reading

International No Diet Day

This International No Diet Day, why not give yourself a break from obsessing over food, and consider taking another, gentler path?

Nineteen years ago a group of women gathered in Hyde Park, London, to spread the word that dieting is futile and even dangerous. International no diet day is now celebrated all over the world with events ranging from street theatre and picnics, to protests and public scale smashings. Continue reading