S6 EP3: Breaking The Cycle: Intuitive Eating For You & Your Family
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What is intuitive eating? And how can learning about it now help you create a better relationship with food for you and your children? Nicole Cruz is a registered dietician and nutritionist. She focuses on family feeding, and on healing your relationship with food. Listen to the episode to hear Nicole explain how to get started on intuitive eating and how to restructure common messages you hear about food and eating.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How healing our relationship with food helps our children
- How to get started on intuitive eating
- How parents can set their children on the path to avoiding their parents’ food issues
- Trust as a key component in the feeding relationship
- Restructuring common food directives
- Whether parents should worry about kids that have limited palates
- Whether parents should limit their children’s sugar intake
- Valuing body diversity
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| 0:00.0 | When I say the what when and where, that parents are choosing, what are we having for dinner tonight? |
| 0:04.5 | We're having spaghetti and meatballs and broccoli and garlic bread. |
| 0:09.7 | And that's what's for dinner. |
| 0:11.1 | And then the kids show up to the table and they get to decide, I only want to eat the pasta part. |
| 0:17.9 | I don't want meatballs. |
| 0:19.0 | And I only want the garlic bread or whatever it is. And they can |
| 0:22.3 | choose that those are the only two things I'm eating tonight. And maybe I want more pasta. And the parents |
| 0:28.5 | don't step in and say, but then if you want more pasta, you have to eat broccoli. Right. Because |
| 0:32.9 | I like to say to set it and forget it. Once you put the food out on the table, you've decided it's 6 p.m. |
| 0:39.5 | This is what we're having for dinner. |
| 0:40.9 | We're eating at the kitchen table, the what went and where. |
| 0:43.3 | Now it's up to your child to navigate what food is on the table. |
| 0:51.8 | The big question is this. |
| 0:55.5 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 1:04.2 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 1:11.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:20.5 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thigh Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:28.3 | Hi guys, we have an amazing guest on our podcast this week. Nicole Cruz is a registered |
| 1:34.8 | dietitian nutritionist, mom of three, and wife who takes on an intuitive eating non-diet approach |
| 1:41.3 | to food. Let's go. Yes. So whether you're parenting your children or reparenting yourself, |
| 1:48.5 | Nicole is devoted to helping you foster a healthy relationship with food, which I know we could all use. |
| 1:54.3 | I'm here for that. |
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