The Intuitive Diabetic Podcast: Intuitive Eating, Diabetes, Non Diet, HAES

We made it!  Principle 10 of our intuitive eating with diabetes series.  Today,  we explore the concept of gentle nutrition and how this approach can be applied to diabetes where we are creating health without obsession using a flexible, intuitive, and holistic approach. 

On this episode you will learn:

• the role of perfectionism in diabetes, and how we view nutrition
• how diabetes management merges with diet culture and healthism 
• what is gentle nutrition
• how to approach you wellness and your diabetes more holistically
• what does it mean to use flexibility and intuition
• why this principle is approached differently when living with diabetes
• how to incorporate this principle without it feeling like your 'old dieting mentality'
• questions to ask yourself when making informed food choices

Mentioned on the show:

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Lindsay's Website:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com

Intuitive Eating with Diabetes 1:1 Coaching Program:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/intuitive-eating-program

Work with Lindsay:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

Whose ready to establish a more joyful relationship with movement?  Welcome to principle #9 of intuitive eating, movement - feel the difference.

When living with diabetes the pressures to exercise can feel even greater, especially if you are feeling added pressures to watch your weight or increase insulin sensitivity.  Such pressures  do little to encourage a more joyous relationship with movement, or help us in finding forms of exercise that we genuinely enjoy.  

If you're wanting to learn how to embrace this idea of joyful movement, and are hoping to free yourself of the 'no pain no gain' mentality of exercise past, get ready to embrace this refreshing take on movement.  

On this episode  you'll learn:

• the difference between the terms movement and exercise
• the benefit of decoupling movement from needing to change our body, and/or needing it to increase our insulin sensitivity
• my struggles with exercise over the years
• the importance of understanding our relationship to exercise as we work towards pursuing joyful movement
• questions to ask yourself when looking to create joyful movement
• how joyful movement can beneficial in supporting other principles of intuitive eating, like hunger and fullness. 

Mentioned in the show:

Holiday Giveaway:  Chance to win a scholarship to the 9 week 1:1 Intuitive Eating with Diabetes Program (open for Type 1s and Type 2s).  To enter, leave a rating and review, take a picture and DM on Instagram.  Giveaway ends end of day on January 1, 2021.

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Intuitive Eating with Diabetes 1:1 Coaching Program:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/intuitive-eating-program

Work with Lindsay:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

Welcome to episode 10 of the Intuitive Diabetic Podcast where we are continuing our series on intuitive eating with diabetes.

On this episode we look at principle number 8 of intuitive eating- respect your body.  It is in this principle that we've hit a huge turning point in our journey to becoming an intuitive eater.  Realizing that our body is not our fault, and neither is our diabetes (no matter the type!!!).  In doing so we are able to begin treating our body with dignity, while holding the intention of meeting its basic needs.  Things that when dieting, or working to manipulate its size are  impeded.

In this episode you'll learn: 

• What is body respect
• The impact of diet culture,  weight stigma, and medical bias on body image, and our relationship to diabetes
• The concept of genetically determined weight
• 5 ways to begin creating more body respect 

Mentioned in the show:

Holiday Giveaway:  Chance to win a scholarship to the 9 week 1:1 Intuitive Eating with Diabetes Program (open for Type 1s and Type 2s).  To enter, leave a rating and review, take a picture and DM on Instagram.  Giveaway ends January 1, 2021.

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Intuitive Eating with Diabetes 1:1 Coaching Program:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/intuitive-eating-program

Work with Lindsay:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

Do you struggle with using food as a way to cope with your emotions?  If yes, know you are not alone.  In fact, it is even more common for those of us who have a history of dieting and restriction (as many of us living with diabetes do, and maybe still do).  The important thing to remember and that is not emphasized enough is that using food to cope with emotions is NOT a bad thing, and is completely natural.

On this episode of the podcast we explore principle #7 of intuitive eating - honour your feelings without using food.  

What you'll learn in this episode:

• what the real issue is with emotional eating (hint: it is not about the food)
• how diabetes and emotional eating can be intertwined
• the 2 questions to ask yourself before turning to food
• key reminders as you learn to cope with your emotions in a different way

Mentioned on the show:

Holiday Giveaway:  Chance to win a scholarship to the 9 week 1:1 Intuitive Eating with Diabetes Program (open for Type 1s and Type 2s).  To enter, leave a rating and review, take a picture and DM on Instagram.  Giveaway ends January 1, 2021.

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Intuitive Eating with Diabetes 1:1 Coaching Program:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/intuitive-eating-program

Work with Lindsay:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

Respecting our fullness.  Something that seems easy enough right?  Well that is unless you've been conditioned to dismiss or override your body's cues out of a need to follow a diet or meal plan - like the majority of us living with diabetes have been advised to.   This often leads to challenges in recognizing hunger and fullness cues, as well as associated fears in being able to do so.

On today's show we look at fullness and how after years of dieting, restricting, and distracting ourselves we can reconnect with they body's signals and learn to respect our fullness, while also navigating the unique challenges that diabetes can bring with that. 

On today's episode you will learn:

• how diabetes can make eating feel more like something we do on auto pilot
• the unique diabetes factors that may require us to override fullness
• how we can get off auto pilot and create more interoceptive awareness supportive of respecting our fullness.

 
Mentioned on the show:

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Lindsay's website:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com

Holiday Giveaway: 
Scholarship for the Intuitive Eating with Diabetes, 1:1 Coaching Program, open to those living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.  To enter leave a rating and review, tack a picture,  and send it to Lindsay via  a DM on Instagram  by January 1st, 2021.

Today's episode is all about principle 5 of intuitive eating - discovering the satisfaction factor and how diabetes, and diet culture can take us further away from food joy and health.

It's too often I hear fellow diabetics share with me their struggles with food, and how the stress of blood sugars, weight loss/body image struggles, and healthism have overtaken the simple joys of eating.  I know, I've been there too!

In today's episode we talk about:

• the struggles of prioritizing food satisfaction when living with diabetes
• the role that diet culture plays in impacting our food choices, and how this relates to our ability/inability to maximize food joy
• the benefits of increasing food joy beyond the food
• how to navigate blood sugars and food satisfaction together
• tips for looking beyond the blood sugars when wanting to up the satisfaction factor of food

Mentioned in the show:

Holiday Giveaway:  Chance to win a scholarship to the 9 week 1:1 Intuitive Eating with Diabetes Program (open for Type 1s and Type 2s).  To enter, leave a rating and review, take a picture and DM on Instagram.  Giveaway ends January 1, 2021.

Food Freedom Guide:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/food-freedom

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Work with Lindsay:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

When living with  diabetes we can feel a lot of pressures surrounding our food choices.   Both externally, and within our own heads.  No matter where it comes from, the reality is this food policing has an impact on how we care for our health,  and our diabetes.  But even more impactful though can be how we feel about our choices, and in turn ourselves.  Hello food guilt!  Hello shame!

In our journey to become an intuitive eater with diabetes we need to be able to remove the moral value surrounding food choices and begin challenging this food police.  And so today we explore principle #4 of intuitive eating - challenge the food police to help us do just that.

On this episode you will learn:

• how to identify your food police
• the sources where our food police may come from
• the impact our food police is having on our health (hint: it goes beyond what we are eating, and how we feel about what we eat)
• how stress influences blood sugars and how our relationship with food is tied into that
• 4 steps to begin tackling those food policing thoughts

Mentioned on the show:

Finding Food Freedom Guide:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/food-freedom

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Lindsay's website and services:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com 

On today's episode we dive into the 3rd principle of intuitive eating - with a diabetes lens of coarse!  Making peace with food.  Where we want to stop the food fight and give ourselves unconditional permission to eat.....Gah say what?  Yes, you read that right!  

I know, this can feel especially scary for someone living with diabetes.  The first time I learned about this principle I was skeptical too!  By the end of this episode however, I hope I will have helped you move past any fear or disbelief related to this principle.  As well as helped you recognize the benefits of adopting this way of thinking for your diabetes well being.

Key areas we cover are:

• How to move past those thoughts and feelings that may arise with this principle
• The idea of should and shouldn't with diabetes and food
• The idea of restriction and the types of restriction
• The problem(s) with restriction and having off limit foods
• How to begin making peace with food
• The benefit(s) of making peace with food

Mentioned in the show

Intuitive Eating with Diabetes 1:1 Coaching Program, open to T1 and T2:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/intuitive-eating-program

Lindsay's website and services
https://www.lindsaysarson.com

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

In today's episode we look at the second principle of intuitive eating - honouring your hunger and I share with you my struggles with honouring my hunger as a result of diabetes and diet culture influences from childhood and beyond. 

What you'll learn from this episode is:

• Why honouring our hunger is so important
• What happens when we don't honour our hunger
• How diabetes may impact our ability to honour our hunger
• How body image struggles/diet culture pressures impact our ability to honour our hunger
• How we can reconnect with our hunger
• The benefit of this reconnection for diabetes and body image
• The benefits of creating body attunement

Mentioned in the show:

Tribole, E & Resch, E (2020).  Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach. St. Martins Publishing Group, New York.

1:1 Intuitive Eating with Diabetes Program (open for all people living with diabetes):
https://www.lindsaysarson/intuitive-eating-program

Lindsay's Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Diet mentality....can we opt out?  Even if living with diabetes?

Today's episode is all about looking at the first principle of intuitive eating - reject the diet mentality.  We will explore this topic from a food, body, and diabetes lens. 

On this episode you will learn:

• what is diet mentality?
• How does diet mentality show up in our life?
• How does it influence the decisions we make?
• And how do we FEEL about those decisions?

Mentioned in show:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me