Reconnect With Your Body Archives | feel good eating

How to Measure Progress That’s Not About Weight Loss

by Nina Mills | 24 Mar, 2023 | Dismantling Diet Culture, Reconnect With Your Body

When we’re pursuing weight loss, the goal is pretty simple. Lose weight. Which kinda makes ‘measuring progress’ simple as well. Because weight loss is tangible, we know when it’s ‘working’. We know it’s working when the number on the scale is decreasing. We know we’re...

The Non-Diet Approach

by Nina Mills | 3 Feb, 2023 | Dismantling Diet Culture, Reconnect With Your Body

It probably seems a little weird that a DIETitian would be talking about something called a non-diet approach. So, before we get into it, let’s clarify which definition of the word DIET I am talking about here. I’m talking about the ‘diet’ that refers to the ways...

Intuitive Eating for Binge Eating: Can it Help?

by Nina Mills | 29 Jan, 2022 | Binge Eating, Reconnect With Your Body

With Intuitive Eating’s growing popularity, I receive lots of enquiries from people wanting to tackle their binge eating using it. Given how awful people can feel after a binge, I can really appreciate them wanting to try all sorts of things to heal their relationship...

Does portion control fit with mindful eating?

by Nina Mills | 21 Oct, 2021 | Dismantling Diet Culture, Reconnect With Your Body

Mindful eating is often suggested as a way to practice portion control. But does portion control actually fit with mindful eating? This article will look at what portion control and mindful eating are and whether the two are compatible with one another. What...

Emotional hunger vs Physical hunger

by Nina Mills | 11 Apr, 2021 | Reconnect With Your Body

Hunger is just hunger, right? It’s that thing you feel when you need to eat? Technically, yes. But being a human for a number of years now ?, you may have noticed that you don’t just eat ‘for fuel’ or to quell physical hunger. Because of this, the other reasons we...

The Step That Has To Come Before Tuning Into Hunger And Fullness

by Nina Mills | 6 Aug, 2019 | Body Respect, Food Allergies and Intolerances, Reconnect With Your Body

To establish a more peaceful and easeful relationship with food and body, we just quit dieting and start tuning into our hunger and fullness, right? If you have tried to listen to your hunger and fullness after having been on a diet, or maybe after having spent years...