Let’s imagine a scenario: You’re walking through an airport. You pass a bathroom and wonder, “Hmm, do I need to use the bathroom?” Before doing a body check and letting that be your guide, you pause. You pass that question through a few mental filter... 

One of the barriers to eating intuitively—i.e. trusting yourself to eat what your body needs, wants, and likes—is counting calories. This is either a mental calculation of calories consumed, and/or an app that someone uses frequently to “keep track” ... 

Even though I’ve worked with hundreds of folks as they let go of dieting and start eating intuitively, I can’t say for sure what intuitive eating and food trust will look and feel like for you. I actually think that’s the great thing about eating int... 

If you’ve ever been on a diet (or, a few dozen of them), you’ve been told in some way or another that you can’t be trusted around food. Even if you’ve never followed a strict or rigid diet, wellness culture and the media have convinced us that we nee... 

Q: Should I be eating breakfast every day? I get asked this question so frequently! Nutrition headlines of oscillated over the years, once stating that breakfast is a MUST in order to be “healthy”, and now changing with the tides of the Intermittent ... 

A big question in the intuitive eating world is whether it’s possible to use a food tracking app, and still eat intuitively. And, does an intuitive eating food tracking app exist? We explore intuitive eating and food tracking apps on this episode of ... 

I’m sure the ads for diet services and “new!” products have already popped into your inbox, social media feeds, and maybe even friendly conversations. This is the diet industry’s favorite time of year to convince you something needs to change! (I’ve ... 

As you Zoom Out, what are some things that this holiday season means to you? What do you value during this time, and how do you try to honor that? Eating intuitively means checking in with yourself to see what you NEED (instead of checking a set of r... 

  “I’m worried about stress eating,” so many clients have said to me during this time of year. These months it feels like various holiday celebrations hit back to back, year-end parties ensue, we’re out of our routine, and we can’t seem to find a sen... 

We all know a car can’t run on empty. It will literally stop, stall, and stay put until someone somehow fills the tank back up with gas (or, in a more modern example, someone plugs it back in!). If a car is just low on gas, or low on a charge, it wil... 

CW: Disordered and restrictive eating behaviors shared in details below. I used to abide by many arbitrary (and seemingly “healthy”, at the time) food rules. For example: At a restaurant, the first thing I did was scan the menu for descriptive words ... 

I wish I had known what it means to eat intuitively before I started running marathons, or just running for exercise and for fun. I learned some hard lessons after a lot of food experiments, trials, and many errors. I've been on the marathon starting... 

Jessi Haggerty, registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, joins me for my third episode on my podcast series of questions, RD Real Talk: Registered Dieticians Keeping It Real. In this episode, we dissect the question, what is int... 

  Have you heard about the ideas of intuitive eating? Have you thought about how it might look or feel to eat without rules, without “guidelines”, without a preconceived notion of what is or isn’t “healthy”? Have you tried it? Because of the recent r...