I am like many women and have been influenced by the “Hollywood” image of what is beautiful in a woman. These days it seems to be what I could call “skinny.” I choose to not label a woman’s body by terms like fat, plump or skinny. To me, healthy is what matters the most.
I am overweight. Yes, even what medical science calls obese. I am aware that this is not a healthy way to be. I do however, know that because I sit most of the time , it has lead to my obesity. I live with arthritis in my spine which basically means my spine is crumbling. I also have COPD after a lifetime of chronic bronchitis due to a bad case of whooping cough as a child. That and growing up in a home with two smokers. I don’t blame them. They did not know.
Eating intuitively is pretty new to me but I love it. We all know that diets do not work. THEY DO NOT WORK. So before I learned about mindful eating, I had already been eating a healthy and wholesome diet. I am a scratch cook and have always tried to feed this temple with the right foods.
I became a certified nutrition coach just for myself, really, but I love to share with others. I am an omnivore and to be honest, think it is a healthy way to eat but then, a vegetarian diet is healthy too. Any food plan we are on can be healthy as long as we eat from all food groups, in the proportions recommended.
I love to cook so, planning my meals is guided by those proportions but also by the flavors of what I plan to cook!
I won’t go into all the points about intuitive eating here but join with me, and I can guide you into this fun way of looking at how we eat.