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    5 Steps to Break Free from the Binge-Restrict Cycle

    Bingeing or overeating can cause a lot of stress, guilt, shame and physical discomfort. For many people, the natural response is to try to “fix” it by restricting food intake afterwards or cut out the foods you tend to binge on. But restricting can actually make bingeing worse. In fact, restriction is one of the…

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    The 10 Best Tasting High Fiber Breads, According to a Dietitian

    If you’re trying to eat more fiber, switching up your bread choice is one of the easiest ways to do it. But with so many options on the market, you might find  yourself in the bread aisle staring like a deer in headlights.  How do you know which breads are actually high in fiber and…

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    Why You Binge At Night Plus Proven Steps to Stop

    You’ve been good all day. You ate a low fat yogurt parfait for breakfast, salad with chicken for lunch, and resisted the cookies your coworker brought into the office. And then you walk in the door from a long day and immediately head for the pantry. Minutes later you’re arm deep in a bag of…

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    15 Easy and Healthy Snack Plate Ideas

    As a mom, dietitian, and business owner, I know the importance of finding fast, easy, and healthy snacks and meals that are filling and satisfying. One of my favorite solutions—especially when I’m low on energy, time, and ideas (or didn’t have a chance to meal plan)—is the humble snack plate.  Snack plates are not just…

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    9 Simple Steps to Start Intuitive Exercise

    Intuitive exercise, or intuitive movement gos hand in hand with intuitive eating. In fact, finding joy in movement is the 9th principle of intuitive eating. It’s a way to reap the benefits of exercise without boredom or burnout. It’s a personalized approach that emphasizes the importance of listening to your body’s cues and responding to…

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    Why Do I Feel Guilty After Eating? A Dietitian Explains How to Ditch Food Guilt

    Feeling guilty after eating certain foods like sweets, carbs, snacks, or heavier food is common. This probably happens when trying to eat healthy, but then come face-to-face with a slice of chocolate cake that you can’t resist. Or after a really good day of eating, you end up arm deep in a bag of chips….

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    Obsessed with food? Here’s why plus 3 tips to end the obsession

    Obsessing about food is exhausting. It can often feel like an ongoing mental loop that takes over your thoughts. You might find yourself trapped in a never-ending cycle of questions: what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat. Plus the guilt that follows when you don’t stick to the rules you’ve set…

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    How to Stop Counting Calories in 7 Simple Steps

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    40 Positive Body Image Affirmations to Boost Body Confidence

    If you struggle with body confidence (really, who doesn’t?), body image affirmations can be a useful tool to improve your body image and help you worry less about your body. Learning to accept your genetics and the natural changes that will inevitably occur in your body throughout your life is an important part of becoming…

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I'm Sarah, registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor and mom of 2. I help busy moms ditch the diet rules and learn to eat to improve energy, reduce cravings, and support long-term health without counting or giving up their favorite foods.

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I know it feels like it’s your job to convince you I know it feels like it’s your job to convince your kid — or make them — to try new foods (or old foods they used to like).But actually, that’s not your job at all. Your job as a parent is to offer it and create an environment where they feel safe and ready to try new things.Oftentimes parents miss 3 key things that make all the difference — even if you’re trying to play it cool.I recorded a 5- minute video where I walk you through the 3 things most parents miss — but are essential to helping your kid be ready to try new foods.Comment or DM me ‘ice cream’ and I’ll send it over to you.#raisingintuitiveeaters #feedingkids #healthykidfood #pickyeaters #pickyeating
It’s easy to look at a moment like this and think It’s easy to look at a moment like this and think it’s about dessert….and panic.But it’s not.It’s about whether a child feels confident listening to their body… or learns to override it.Many of us were raised with some version of
👉 “finish your plate before you leave the table”
👉 “you can have dessert if…”
👉 “just a few more bites”And while those things are said with love and good intentions, they teach kids to disconnect from their hunger and fullness cues—and to put external rules above what their body is telling them.So when a kid says, “I’m done, I’m saving room for dessert,” that’s not sugar obsession.That’s body awareness, self-trust, and self-regulation.Skills that will help your kid be normal around sweets for the rest of their life.And if your first instinct is panic (“they didn’t eat enough” / “they just want sugar”), that’s Ok. It’s also diet culture talking.You’re responding from what you were taught.Zoom out and remember this:
Your job isn’t to control how much they eat of any food.

It’s to create an environment where they can learn to eat a variety of foods and trust themselves with all food.And that starts with you.Because the way you feel around food.

That’s the blueprint they’re picking up on—whether you realize it or not.Want to learn more about how to set your kids up to eat more variety and have a healthy relationship to all foods (and avoid or end sweet obsession)?Comment or DM me ‘ice cream’ and I’ll send you a 6-minute video where I walk you through the 3 things that every parent needs to do to foster this.
She didn’t overhaul her diet. She didn’t cut out m She didn’t overhaul her diet. She didn’t cut out more foods. She didn’t track macros or calories or protein or anything.She learned how to fuel her body.That’s it.For her that meant eating breakfast earlier and adding some fiber-rich carbs to her meals.The result?Leaving leftover pizza untouched and keeping her favorite easter candy in the house without going crazy.Simple shifts in your eating can take you from out of control to calm and confident in a matter of weeks, if not days.
You don’t have to choose between being a short ord You don’t have to choose between being a short order cook and “this is what’s for dinner, eat it or go hungry.”There’s a middle ground that feels better for everyone involved.We all have food preferences — kids and adults. And when you consider them even just a bit, kids are more relaxed and more willing to eat.But when we lean into catering (I know, often done out of pure exhaustion or survival mode. It’s ok!) —making separate meals, avoiding anything they might not like, sticking to the same foods on repeat…Kids get more stuck in their preferences, new foods feel even more “off limits,” and you’re left making multiple dinners and wondering why it’s getting worse.(Not to mention… it’s exhausting.)Being considerate without always catering is  what leads to fewer power struggles, more sane mealtimes, and kids who actually become more flexible eaters over time.If you want to help your kids eat more variety and raise them with a healthy relationship to all foods, follow @busy.mom.nutrition for more.Also if you’re local to Medfield, MA and ready to end picky eating in your house, join me for a live workshop From Picky to Balanced on April 9 at 7pm @around_the_plate.$40 per person and Jessy will provide delicious eats! Link in my bio to register. DM me with questions!Spots are limited.
If your kid doesn’t eat dinner but still wants des If your kid doesn’t eat dinner but still wants dessert, it’s likely that one of 3 things are going on:1️⃣ You kid wasn’t that hungry — and they knew dessert was coming so they’re waiting. Does this mean you shouldn’t offer dessert? No, but we might need to look at what other meals and snacks look like during the day so that they’re showing up to dinner hungry.2️⃣ Maybe they didn’t have a safe food on their plate or they didn’t like what was served — this is especially common with picky eaters but can come up with all kids.3️⃣ Sweets are special — either they’re not offered often enough for your kid to feel calm around them or they are talked about as treats (hence they’re more exciting). So they’re focused just on dessert.Withholding desert doesn’t fix these things. Instead we need to zoom out and look at the greater feeding environment — how and when food is served and how we talk about food.I break this all down in a 5-minute mini training, so you can start to shift these things in your home.And then refusing dinner in favor of dessert isn’t a regular thing.DM me or comment ‘ice cream’ and I’ll send it over to you.
Body comparison is so common. But it’s also really Body comparison is so common. But it’s also really unhelpful.We see someone’s body that we admire and our brain instantly fills in the rest of the story — that they must be more confident, happier, more put together, more successful, more disciplined.These are the stories we’ve been told by diet culture.  It doesn’t mean they’re true.Bodies are the easiest thing to see.

They’re also one of the least reliable thing to judge a life by.Someone else’s body can look exactly the way you think you want and still have no correlation to how they feel inside.Save this for when you need a reminder 💜
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