Intuitive Living Eating RD

In this episode I'm sharing 3-5 easy ways to keep your energy, mood and spirits up when things feel heavy. If you feel like you need a few easy wins to focus on grab my healthy habits tracker here: https://cathyrichardsrd.com/healthy-habits-tracker/

In February 2021 I started this podcast in hopes of walking you through my self love journey back to health after years of stress and challenges. In today's episode I'm giving you the update on what the past year has looked like. To be perfectly honest my focus was a lot less on nutrition that I had assumed it would be. Tune in to find out what I've been focusing on to get to the best version of m...

To become really aware of your fullness, it takes a lot of practice. By using the fullness discover scale you'll gain more understanding of the meals that keep you full longer and the meals that have you looking for more food an hour later. Paying attention to your fullness and practicing awareness around it  - you'll learn how to get to your endpoint of eating - aka the last bite threshold....

Have you every noticed that after you eat chinese food you find yourself searching for food within an hour or 2? You're not alone. If the balance of protein, fat, carbohydrate (fiber) are different in meals it will influence how full you feel and how long that fullness stays. In today's episode - I'll walk you through a couple or easy experiments that can increase your awareness around what foods...

Intuitive Eating is a compassionate, self-care eating framework that treats all bodies with dignity and respect. It helps us to relearn the process of listening to our bodies - hunger and fullness cues and eating in response to those vs outside factors. So you may be wondering how emotional eating fits into the intuitive eating process. In this episode I explain where emotional eating fits in the...

On today's episode I'm talking about the sticky bits that show up when you start your intuitive eating journey and how that's actually why the magic happens. The boosted self confidence, better relationship with your body and more optimism. No, the journey isn't always easy but it's 100% worth it. Self awareness brings feelings to the surface and we can chose to move through them as part of the pr...

In todays client series - I am walking you through a real life client example. In this short episode I'll explain why the initial low FODMAP approach didn't work and how the clients symptoms have improved 99%.  To learn more about the low FODMAP dietary approach read my blog post here: https://cathyrichardsrd.com/the-fodmap-diet-to-easily-manage-irritable-bowel-syndrome/  or listen to my...

Feel your fullness can almost sound like a catch phrase if you're following any intuitive eater accounts on-line. In today's episode I'm walking you through how to discover what fullness feels like to you and how to use that information in becoming an intuitive eater. Don't forget to head over to my IGTV series for mini trainings from this principle.  Distracted eating as a barrier to feeling...

Challenging the food police means looking at your belief's around food and the beliefs that you may have adopted from your family. In this episode I'm walking you through some "food rules" that may be running in the background without you even realizing it. By paying attention we can identify the rules and reframe them using an intuitive eater approach as we continue on this intuitive eating journ...

The journey to becoming an intuitive eater involves challenging the food police or those outdated beliefs around food that you've adopted over time. Getting real with your inner critic and flipping the negative self talk on its head is all part of the process. In this episode I'm showing you how to reframe those beliefs and get honest with your inner critic (aka the real food police). Principle #4...

Interested in seeing intuitive eating used in real life? Then you'll want to tune into today's episode. I am sharing how I've been incorporating intuitive eating into my regular clinical practice. In this practice I am referred clients from 0-99 with a variety of medical concerns yet I'm finding that many of the principles of intuitive eating still fit. Tune in and find out why!  Missed my la...

What exactly does making peace with food mean? Basically it's giving yourself unconditional permission to eat. I get it if that sounds scary to you. A lot of fears come up for my clients as they start the process of making peace with food. What if I start eating and I can't stop? I've tried eating forbidden foods before, but it didn't work. I am addicted to food or I don't trust myself around food...

Building on the 10 priniciples for nourishing a healthy relationship with food based on the intuitive eating workbook this episode dives into how to honour your hunger. In order to honour your hunger - you must first be able to feel it. So in this episode I am walking you through what hunger may feel like to you and how to practice listening to your body. Which given our hectic lifestyles can seem...

Intuitive eatings is a compassionate, self- care eating framework that treats all bodies with dignity and respect. How amazing is that!  In today's episode I'm walking you through principle number 1 from the Intuitive Eating workbook: Reject the Diet Mentality.  Why? Because dieting leads to weight gain and there's lots of research to support this.  The idea of not dieting or follow...

Feeling frustrated with your body and hating it? Or maybe you feel like you're always fighting against it?   You are not alone. Many of my clients feel like this and sometimes I do too.  Imagine an alternative way of relating to food, eating and your body that is characterized by kindness and not criticism.  That's the role of intuitive eating. The goal of intuitive eating is to hel...

If 2020 taught us anything it's that even the best laid plans don't always turn out. In this episode I'm sharing the truth about how I've learnt to give myself grace when it comes to achieving my health and wellness goals and how that translates into my work with clients. I'm also touching on the most important piece of the puzzle which is often self reflection and the power of using your voice, e...

My self love journey back to health started with refocusing on my diet and body movement but over the past few months I've shifted into a focus on the other modalities that keep my body and health in alignment. Infrared saunas use electromagnetic radiation from infrared lamps to warm your body directly rather than heating the air. They heat your core body temperature and only heat to about 15...

My self love journey back to health started with refocusing on my diet and body movement but over the past few months I've shifted into a focus on the other modalities that keep my body and health in alignment. In this episode I'm sharing the role of thermography, ultrasound and mammogram on my recent journey.  To say that the thermography results look like a fire engine isn't an underst...

My self love journey back to health started with refocusing on my diet and body movement but over the past few months I've shifted into a focus on the other modalities that keep my body and health in alignment. In this episode I'm sharing the role that pelvic floor physiotherapy has played in my life over the past 9 years. Remember that the entire body functions together as a whole and the pe...

My self love journey back to health started with refocusing on my diet and body movement but over the past few months I've shifted into a focus on the other modalities that keep my body and health in alignment.  Growing up and as a young adult, I only used physiotherapy to overcome an acute injury or surgery (ACL repair). In this episode I'm sharing how my physiotherapist who focuses on...

I'm sure that you've heard someone talk about the power of positive thought. Sounds to good to be true- right? Well there's actually a lot of good science out there to back it up. Positive people are happier people. In my group emotional eating program we spend a lot of timing reframing negative thoughts into positive thoughts or more positive thoughts shall I say. On today's episode I'm walk...

Self-care seems to be a popular catch phrase in the on-line space over the past few years. As an overwhelmed, busy mompreneur with 3 kids under 5, I can remember feeling annoyed and even angry at the people showing up in my social feed promoting "self-care" but believe me it's essential. Now as a single, mompreneur I've figured out how to factor in this time even when I have my 3 young kids, full-...

Some days we just don't feel it. Motivated that is. And yesterday I was right there with you. I knew what I had intended to do for daily movement and I just didn't feel like doing it. In this episode I'm walking you through the easy mindset shift that can help us overcome the inevitable motivation  hurdles that show up on our wellness journey's. It's something I use with 80% of my clients to...

The one thing that every successful client does? Is take back their POWER around their health and wellness. Not sure what I mean? Ask yourself how many times you've skipped your workout to accommodate your spouse or someone else? How many restaurant meals have you suffered through when there wasn't a thing on the menu that you really wanted to eat. As a busy mompreneur it's so easy to give away ou...

It can be so easy to fall off the wagon when it comes to our health and wellness. Life throws us a curveball and we fall back into old habits. Join me in this episode where I'm walking you through the 3 easy ways to get back on track. First, I'll share my methods to help my clients explore "why" they got off track in the first place. Once that's identified we'll move onto "what" will be the goals...