050: Intuitive Eating and Ditching the Diet Mentality with Victoria Yates

“Intuitive Eating” is a huge buzzword in the health and wellness space, but what does it actually mean? In this episode, Victoria Yates is helping us dig deep into our internal beliefs about food and the messaging that keeps us stuck in restrictive diets, obsessive eating habits, and unhealthy relationships with food. Intuitive Eating is an approach to eating that encourages mindfulness, healing your relationship with food, and ending diet mentality once and for all! If you struggle to listen to your body’s cues on food, or if you have an inner dialogue criticizing you for your food choices, you are not alone and this episode is for you.

Victoria Yates is a Registered Nurse, Whole Health Coach, & Intuitive Eating Counselor passionate about helping high-achieving women feel calm around food and confident in themselves. She teaches through her social media and her podcast, the Redefining Health Podcast, in addition to her coaching program.

Connect with Victoria!

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nondiet_rn/
• Listen to The Redefining Health Podcast
• Work with Victoria: https://www.victoria-yates.com/coaching

Some key takeaways on intuitive eating are:

• One of the most important steps towards intuitive eating is unpacking the current core beliefs. We pick up a lot of thoughts and beliefs around food in our lives, and we can ditch a diet mentality by addressing these head-on.
• Another big step to healing your relationship with food is understanding there are no “good” or “bad” foods. Food is just neutral, and removing the labels of “good” vs. “bad” helps you start to distinguish between foods you really enjoy vs. foods that you don’t enjoy eating.
• A lot of food-related issues we might have aren’t food-related at all. You might be experiencing struggles with perfectionism, comparison, and self-worth and using food as a coping mechanism for those things.

Welcome to the Wake Up Call Podcast with Alicia Hopkins (that’s me!). I work in corporate sales by day and am a personal development guru and Life Coach by night. My goal in this podcast is to share valuable and actionable tips on what I call the “Core Four” - mindfulness, movement, habits, and growth - so you can build a life that feels true to you. I will be interviewing people who have had a “wake up call” that their good-on-paper life wasn’t lighting them up, and what they did to change that. Join us every week for a new episode of the Wake Up Call Podcast with Alicia Hopkins!

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