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Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 4: Challenge the Food Police

Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 4: Challenge the Food Police

Posted by | Dec 3, 2020 | |

Part 4 of my intuitive eating series is about challenging the food police! “Scream a loud no to thoughts in your head that declare you’re “good” for eating minimal calories or “bad” because you ate a piece of chocolate cake. The food police monitor the unreasonable rules that diet culture has created. The police station is housed deep in your psyche, and its loudspeaker shouts negative barbs, hopeless phrases, and guilt-provoking indictments. Chasing the food police away is a critical step in returning to Intuitive Eating.” (From Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch)  Throughout my life I have...

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Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 3: Make Peace With Food

Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 3: Make Peace With Food

Posted by | Dec 2, 2020 | |

Today’s intuitive eating principle is number 3, Make Peace with Food.  “Call a truce; stop the food fight! Give yourself unconditional permission to eat. If you tell yourself that you can’t or shouldn’t have a particular food, it can lead to intense feelings of deprivation that build into uncontrollable cravings and, often, bingeing. When you finally “give in” to your forbidden foods, eating will be experienced with such intensity it usually results in Last Supper overeating and overwhelming guilt.” (From Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch)  This was probably the scariest principle for me to dig into...

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Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 2: Honor Your Hunger

Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 2: Honor Your Hunger

Posted by | Dec 1, 2020 | |

Today’s post is on the second principle of intuitive eating: Honor Your Hunger.  “Keep your body biologically fed with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological signal sets the stage for rebuilding trust in yourself and in food.”(From Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch) Hunger is a new concept for me since starting Trikafta. When I was at my sickest, my appetite was the first thing to...

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Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 1: Reject the Diet Mentality

Intuitive Eating for Cystic Fibrosis Part 1: Reject the Diet Mentality

Posted by | Nov 30, 2020 | |

Since sharing my CFF blog on my journey to finding acceptance with my Trikafta weight gain, I’ve had quite a few people reach out to me with questions about Intuitive Eating.  (TW: If you are going through an eating disorder, this post may be triggering as it goes into dieting behaviors.) For the next 10 days I am going to go through each of the 10 principles and share how I’ve implemented them in my life! I hope my story inspires you to learn more about it, or at the very least answers some of your questions.  Principle 1:...

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5 ways to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis during the Five Feet Apart craze

5 ways to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis during the Five Feet Apart craze

Posted by | Feb 24, 2019 | |

If you’re a part of the cystic fibrosis community I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz surrounding the new movie produced by Justin Baldoni, Five Feet Apart. The movie is about two people with cf who meet/fall in love in the hospital, having to cope with the difficulty of living life by the 6 foot rule, where people with cf can’t be within 6 feet of one another for fear of cross-infection. It’s another teen romance a la Fault in our Stars, which has resulted in mix reactions. . Mixed reactions about Five Feet Apart Some people in the cf...

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