490-Greatest Hit - Gentle Nutrition 101

So I thought for the rest of the podcast, let's think about, for those of you who've never heard of gentle nutrition, let's start unpacking gentle nutrition.

So first of all, gentle nutrition is a term created by Evelyn Triboli.

Evelyn Triboli is with Ellis Roche, created the term, the concept of intuitive eating.

Evelyn is my mentor when it comes to intuitive eating.

She was my coach years ago.

I've had her on the podcast twice.

So if you're a fan of Evelyn, 186 and 278.

And she's also been on my professional podcast.

And she wrote in her book her definition of gentle nutrition as intended within intuitive eating.

So I'm going to read that to you.

Gentle nutrition is making choices that honor your health.

and taste bud while making you feel well.

Remember that you do not have to eat perfectly to be healthy.

You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency or gain weight from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating.

It's what you eat consistently over time that matter.

Progress, not perfection, is what counts.

So think of gentle nutrition as an ongoing process of learning and discovery.

Contrary to what diet culture and wellness culture has told us, it's not a one fit all approach.

Meaning that what gentle nutrition is for you, it's not going to be the same as what it is for me.

And that's where many women get stuck into is they have changed the way they think about hunger and fullness and satisfaction.

And then they, without knowing, just like I was, keep holding on to the thought that once they're gone through the process of intuitive eating, because by the way, intuitive eating is a process.

It's not an end point, right? Intuitive eating is a process to heal your relationship to food after restriction, right? First of all, it's a process that was created in and researched in the context of eating disorder, and then it's been taken out of the context of eating disorder and made accessible to the average person because they realized that the pattern that were accentuated in eating disorder were the exact same pattern that women who simply were dieting had.

In the case of eating disorder, it's just to the next level, right? So intuitive eating is a process.

It's not something you stay in for the rest of your life.

You evolve through it, and the end point is gentle nutrition, right? But you have to change the way you think about about what nutrition is in order for you to be able to approach it in this new way.