Parallel Wellness

Picture this: a space where understanding and empathy flow freely, where conflicts are transformed into opportunities for growth, and where love shines brighter than ever before.

That’s the essence of what we offer at Parallel Wellness, and at the heart of it all lies the Gottman Method—a beacon of hope for those seeking to deepen their bonds and rediscover the joy in their relationships.

Read more on the blog!

Gottman Method l Communication in Relationships - Parallel Wellness Discover the power of the Gottman Method in couples therapy to enhance communication in relationships. Unlock effective strategies for lasting connection. Strengthen your bond today!

Hello friends and family!

I want to announce that I’m expanding my business to include practice development consultation and business coaching!

Business growth strategy has been one of the most exciting aspects of running Parallel Wellness. I’m excited to help other business owners and new grads to create a practice that they love and supports the life they dream of.

If you know anyone looking to start a new practice, expand to a group practice, or increase their income with educational courses, please share this link!

20 Minute Discovery Call - Business Coaching - Meredith MacKenzie Are you ready to build a private practice that is mentally and financially fulfilling? Whether you’re looking to start a new practice, expand to a group practice, or increase your income with educational courses, we can create a strategy that aligns with all your goals.Can't wait to talk to you!

Ready to stop emotionally eating but nothing you've tried seems to work? Enter that Food Freedom Formula!⁠
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I'm hosting a FREE masterclass next week to tackle all the trickest parts of emotional eating and overeating that you won't hear from your doctor or that influencer you follow.⁠
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We're using the power of psychology to dive deep into why this cycle happens again and again, and how you can actually stop it!⁠
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This is my last hurrah before I'm off on maternity leave so I hope you can make it!

➡️ Click the link in the comments to save your seat!

While you’re working towards recovery from binge eating, it’s actually normal to binge eat. Here is a plan for what to do after you binge!

"Why do I keep binge eating?" You try and you try, and yet it happens again. In this week's video I break down the reason why you binge eat, so you can take the steps to stop for good.

Allllmost ready to take the plunge to try Intuitive Eating, but need to know what to expect? I'm covering it ALL in this week's video! 🎥 Check out the link in the comments!

Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE!❤️

Carbs and fats, evil little beings, right? Or maybe they're just nutrients that your body uses as building blocks for all the things your body needs to function well.
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The biggest problem is when you avoid carbs and fats, your body goes into panic mode. It will do whatever it can to encourage you to get the nutrients you need.
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And when you don't listen to it and continue to avoid carbs and fats, your body's signals get louder until you can't avoid them anymore.
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For many people, this looks like losing control over your eating, eating way more than you intended to, and eating foods you've been trying to avoid.
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The moral of the story - the more you avoid, the more you crave. Listen to your body!
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❤️ Give this post a like if you can relate!
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💭 Want to know where your specific eating challenges lie? Click the link in my bio to take the Intuitive Eating Quiz!
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Meet Dr. Kathleen Mahannah, ND, a Naturopathic Physician at Restoration Health Clinic, where our team frequently refers our clients for allied health support.
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Dr. Kathleen helps women balance and optimize their hormones, mood and energy using the best of modern and natural medicine.
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I am thrilled to be chatting with her live on Instagram on the intersection between navigating hormone changes in the 40s while freeing yourself from "diet culture" and creating a healthy and respectful relationship to your body and food!
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We will be touching on:
✨ Hormone changes in the 40s and how this influences mental health and metabolism (and more),
✨ The impact of cortisol (the stress hormone) on perimenopause and eating habits,
✨ Understanding how dieting negatively influences your metabolism,
✨ Exploring the concept of "Intuitive Eating".
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Join us on IG Live on Friday, February 3 at 1:30pm PST and bring your questions for Dr. Kathleen and me!
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Hello! I've just updated my Psychology Today profile, as I expand my office hours to include Sundays IN-PERSON!!

Please share with anyone you think might be interested!

Meredith MacKenzie, Counsellor, Burnaby, BC, V5C | Psychology Today Meredith MacKenzie, Counsellor, Burnaby, BC, V5C, Hello! I'm Meredith MacKenzie and I help women who feel out of control with food, tired of swinging from dieting to binge eating, leading to feel shame about their eating. You know the ins and outs of "healthy eating" but it just doesn't seem to work...

When you were growing up, did your family have rules about what foods you should and shouldn't eat? ❌
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Well-meaning parents often raise their children with nutrition rules about what's okay and what’s not okay to eat. As adults, these rules leave us feeling like there is a "right" and "wrong" way to eat.
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You might feel guilty if you eat fast food or if you add ingredients to your cooking that were not allowed in your home when you were younger.
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Tell me about a food rule your family had that you now want to break! 👇🏼👇🏼
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Are you curious about Intuitive Eating but worried about how you might be judged when you change your eating habits? So are MANY of my clients.
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One Body to Love approaches b1nge eating from an Intuitive Eating perspective, a science-backed approach by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch.
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The Intuitive Eating Bill of Rights gives you renewed permission to listen to your body's needs and eat and move accordingly.
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1️⃣ You have the right to savour meal without judgment, and without discussion of calories eaten or the amount of exercise needed to burn off the calories
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2️⃣ You have the right to enjoy as second servings without apology
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3️⃣ You have the right to honour your fullness even if that means saying “No, thank you” without explanation to dessert or a second helping
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4️⃣ You have the right to stick to your original answer of “No.” even if you’re asked multiple times. Just calmly and politely repeat, “No, thank you, really.”
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5️⃣ It is not your responsibility to make someone happy by overeating even if it took hours to prepare a specialty dish
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6️⃣ You have the right to eat pumpkin pie for breakfast (or cereal for dinner!) regardless of judgmental comments or rolled eyes
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✨ No one except you knows how you feel both emotionally and physically. Only you are the expert of your body.
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🙋‍♀️ Want to learn more about how YOU can become an Intuitive Eater and find freedom from b1nge eating? Click the link in my bio to book a call with me!
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“Alone.” “Ashamed.” “Desperate to feel better about my body.”
👆Those are all feelings my clients have felt after trying and failing at diet after diet.
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But the problem wasn’t you. What if the problem was the diet itself? 🤔
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Diets make us feel terrible about ourselves. Restrictive and unrealistic, diets send us down a spiral of relapsing into our old ways because they’re so unsustainable.
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They leave us starved, both for REAL FOOD and a loving relationship with ourselves.
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So why go back? Let’s DITCH THE DIETS FOR GOOD! ✌️
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You’re not alone, join me and other inspiring intuitive eaters who are ready to live their most vibrant and healthy lives in a way that is SUSTAINABLE FOR LIFE.
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ONE BODY TO LOVE is a 10-week intuitive eating small group program designed to help you:
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✨ Escape the shame and embarrassment of failed diet after failed diet
✨ Learn to forgive yourself for how you’ve treated your body
✨ Feel confident in yourself and your relationship with food
✨ Trust your body and your hunger and fullness cues
✨ Learn strategies (that actually work) to deal with your emotional urges
✨ Begin to enjoy movement without punishing yourself
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As a specialized eating therapist with personal experience in diet failure, I know how to help you trust and respect your body so that you never have to try another diet again.
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This program is all you’ll ever need. 🙌
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➡️ Click the link in my bio to learn more and sign up!
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Feeling the pressure to change your body in 2023? What if instead of focusing on shrinking your body and regulating your eating and exercise, you focused on goals that would improve your relationship with your body?
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✨ Instead of setting a strict exercise routine ➡️ try a new or favourite form of movement that makes your body feel great: Dancing, walking, hiking, playing tag with your kids!
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✨ Instead of reducing your portions and cutting out meals ➡️ eat breakfast and lunch consistently to ward off evening binging.
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✨ Instead of avoiding snacks or running between errands without nourishment ➡️ buy simple, satisfying and sustaining snacks that you can throw in your bag and always have when your hunger creeps up.
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✨ Don’t engage with conversations about dieting or talk of other people’s weight. ➡️ Create a safe space for yourself and friends to feel accepted as you are.
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✨ Prioritize your relationship with yourself. Set a time in your calendar to do something just for you, not to be productive, or meeting anyone else’s needs.
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✨ Instead of giving space to all the things you wish were different about yourself ➡️ take time to acknowledge what makes you uniquely you and all your strengths.
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❤️ Comment below and let me know what your non-body/weight related goals are for 2023!
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You've probably heard crash dieting, but have you heard of crash exercising? This is the way most of us approach exercise when we're looking to make big changes in our fitness and body shape and size.
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You plan a schedule of exercising 3 to 5 times per week for at least one hour a day and you make sure to add in lots of cardio and strength training. Sounds good right?
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What you might not realize is this plan is set up for doom from the beginning.
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When we start a rigorous exercise regime, especially when we've been less active for a period, it creates an all-or-nothing relationship with movement. And we set the bar so high that we begin to associate movement with pain, exhaustion, and believing we're not good enough.
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🏋️ I want to invite you to take a different approach in 2023. Scrap the plans for your big return to the gym instead think of ways you can add joyful movement into each day.
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A walk on your lunch break, parking further from the grocery store, dancing in the kitchen while making dinner, and if you truly enjoy it fun class at the gym when it feels good for your body.
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➡️ I'd love to hear how joyful movement has made a difference in your relationship with exercise. Comment below and tell me your favourite way to move your body!
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Let me guess... the weight loss ads have started to pop up, Noom cookies are practically stalking you, and you can feel the guilt of all the Christmas treats and turkey dinner weighing you down... and you're thinking - one more diet and I'll finally get my eating under control.
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🛑 Screech... Let's slow things down. Stay with me.
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Diets don't work (I was pi**ed off when I realized this too), and actually lead to weight gain for the majority of people.
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Remember when you beat yourself up for regaining weight after your last diet? Guess what... that's how your body is designed to respond.
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Ready for the science?
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"Metabolic adaptation” or “adaptive thermogenesis” happens when you reduce your caloric intake. Your body wants to preserve its energy, so it suppresses your body's ability to burn fat.
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Studies show that the body shifts to using its protein sources for energy which uses lean mass in the body, rather than fat.
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Overall, your resting metabolic rate decreases. You’d hope that things would go back to normal when you stop dieting, but the body isn’t quick to catch up - it’s still worried that the next famine is around the corner.
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So that weight you gained? NOT. YOUR. FAULT.
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1️⃣ Step one - don't start that diet
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2️⃣ Comment "Count me in!" below if you're ready for an alternative to dieting that will repair your relationship with food and your body.
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Diet culture is full of empty promises - you’ll be happier, you’ll be more accepted, you’ll be more confident - but what does it all cost when dieting doesn’t work in the end?
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In the end, the cost is much higher than the momentary rewards. And you actually feel less confident, you’re more self-conscious of your appearance.
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This sets you up for a repetitive cycle of dieting and feeling like you’ve failed when you stop.
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❤️ Like this post if you can relate to the high cost of diet culture.
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Feel like you’re missing something? You’ve tried everything, and yet you’re still struggling with losing control of your eating.
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I’m not offering you a magic pill or a miracle cure, but I can show you the step-by-step process to overcome binge eating and emotional eating for good and repair your relationship with your body.
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How would your life be different if you didn’t have to avoid foods that lead you to binge or you could attend social functions without worrying about food and how you feel about yourself?
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I’ve been there myself, AND I now support women to overcome binge eating as a clinical therapist.
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I went from needing to stick to a rigid meal plan in order to feel in control, avoid social functions that might tempt me to overeat, and still never appreciating my body, to repairing my relationship with food, exercise and my body through Intuitive Eating.
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So what does that mean in my life now? I have complete and total food freedom.
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And my clients have similar results! They can keep the foods they love in the house without worrying about bingeing it all in one sitting, nourish their bodies out of love for themselves, and finally attune to their hunger and fullness cues to eat when they're truly hungry and stop when they’re satisfied.
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This is not magic. You can do this. And I'm showing you how.
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You just have to show up.
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Tuesday, December 13 @ 11am PST
AND Thursday, December 15 @ 5pm PST
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🔗 Click the link in my bio to save your seat and access the workshop!
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The first diet is exciting. You feel powerful and in control. All the positive things associated with being thin are within your reach. And then you end your diet and you slip back.
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So you start another diet.
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Each time it gets harder and you might even gain back more weight when you stop.
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Let me tell you a secret…
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You’re not doing anything wrong. The diets are wrong.
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Diets don’t work for the majority of people. And don’t take that as a challenge to see if you can be the one in a million. It’s not about willpower or worthiness.
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Let me show you another way. A way without restricting yourself. A way where you put your relationship with your body first.
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I’m hosting a ✨FREE✨ workshop on how Intuitive Eating can help you overcome emotional eating and binge eating.
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🔗 Click the link in my bio to save your spot for Tuesday, December 13 or Thursday, December 15.
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See you there!!
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Dieting affects 4 areas of our life:
1️⃣ Physical
2️⃣ Social
3️⃣ Psychological
4️⃣ Behavioural
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Let’s be honest... They don’t really work. ❌
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Initially, it can give you a sense of control and optimism but in the end, it can create a negative impact on your physical, emotional, psychological, and behavioural self.
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What are your thoughts on dieting? 👇🏼
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My body has changed. ❤️ It has grown and carried a human life for 9 months. It’s stretched and expanded. It’s also carried me through hard years of school, night shifts and all the adventures of becoming a new mother.
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A younger version of me might have felt uncomfortable wearing a bathing suit, but I’m feel more in touch with my body than ever before.
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This body is amazing.
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This body grew life.
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This body survived and preserved.
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This body is loved and appreciated.
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So when we were planing our family trip to Mexico, I knew I wanted to find a bathing suit that matched my little water baby. I’d been eyeing this set from and finally ordered.
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For me, not only wearing the suit but buying something that I feel comfortable and fashionable in, matters. I’m so happy that I’m in front of the camera on this trip and making memories with my family!
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✨ How would you like to be able to honour you body? Comment below and let me know!
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✨ Do you worry about eating more food when you’re stressed?
✨ If you eat too much, do you make up for it by skipping the next meal?
✨ Do you exercise only to burn calories or lose weight?
✨ Do you avoid physical intimacy for fear of body image?
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❌ This is an unhealthy behavioural relationship. ❌
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Diets often create these types of relationships because they have such strict rules and boundaries that we haven’t learned how to adhere to.
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Let’s just be honest. Diets don’t work. ❌
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Follow along to learn more about diet culture and breaking the cycles!
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💥 Food Rules 💥
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Let’s talk about these.
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❌ Do you count calories, fats, carbs, etc.?
❌ Are there foods you try to avoid?
❌ What do you think about sweets?
❌ What do you think about carbs?
❌ Do you weigh or measure your food?
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Tell me a food rule you have set for yourself that has you stuck in the diet mentality! 👇🏼
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When you were growing up, did your family have rules about what foods you should and shouldn't eat? ❌
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Well-meaning parents often raise their children with nutrition rules about what's okay and what’s not okay to eat. As adults, these rules leave us feeling like there is a "right" and "wrong" way to eat.
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You might feel guilty if you eat fast food or if you add ingredients to your cooking that were not allowed in your home when you were younger.
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Tell me about a food rule your family had that you now want to break! 👇🏼👇🏼

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Are you familiar with intuitive eating?
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❌ It’s the difference between eating when you’re hungry and eating because the clock tells you to.
❌ It’s the difference between eating what you desire and eating what you are told to eat based on the meal type.
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When you rediscover your inner Intuitive Eater, you can create better health indicators, lower fat levels in your blood, and reduce the risk for heart disease.
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🔗 Check out the link in bio now to find out if you are an intuitive eater!
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Then comment below with your thoughts on intuitive eating!
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How has your relationship with food and your body impacted you overall?
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Obviously, there is a link between the food we eat and the body image we create. But how is the relationship between the two for you?
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Studies show that when you become an intuitive eater, you have higher:
✨ Self-esteem
✨ Well-being and optimism
✨ Body appreciation and acceptance
✨ Pleasure of eating
✨ Unconditional self-regard
And much much more!
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Ready to become an intuitive eater?
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🔗 Check out the link in bio to take my intuitive eating quiz!
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