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In the Your Latina Nutrition blog, we help you learn to nourish & respect your body without harsh food rules, overcome cycles of bingeing and restriction, and embrace your here-and-now body.
You can do this all while keeping your cultural foods alive & adopting health-promoting behaviors.
Enjoy our research-backed articles written by registered dietitians Isabel and Dalina!
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ALL POSTS | RECIPES | INTUITIVE EATING | JOYFUL MOVEMENT | BODY IMAGE | GENTLE NUTRITION | CULTURA
What Is Healthism and Why Is It Problematic?
Healthism makes health an individual endeavor, rather than a systemic one. Learn more about what healthism is and why it’s problematic.
5 Signs A Social Media Account is Promoting Diet Culture
Sometimes, diet-centric accounts are sneaky and subtle. You might feel something is off but not be able to pinpoint the way these accounts are promoting diet culture. Learn five warning signs that an account is probably diet-centric and harmful to your food freedom journey.
Why Secret Eating Happens and How to Address It
Eating can be a great way to connect with others, but eating in secret can be a sign of a disordered relationship with food. Learn what secret eating is, what causes it, and how to overcome it.
Overcoming 3 Common Fears for New Intuitive Eaters
On the one hand, ditching diets may sound great to you. However, embarking on a food freedom journey might also bring up some fear. Learn how to overcome 3 common fears for new intuitive eaters.
5 Tips to Prevent Bingeing on Halloween Candy
All the candy present at Halloween can cause a lot of fear, especially since sugar is so demonized in society today. Learn 5 tips to make peace with candy so you can prevent bingeing and make the most of Halloween.
5 Tips to Accept Intuitive Eating Weight Gain
Gaining weight is one very real possibility of intuitive eating. Although this is often met with fear or resistance, you can learn to accept it and view it neutrally. Learn 5 tips to accept intuitive eating weight gain.
Body Checking: What It Is and How to Stop
Looking in the mirror to see how your outfit looks, weighing yourself every few months, or checking your teeth for lettuce are all normal behaviors. We all check our bodies to some extent! However, body checking can wreak havoc on your mental health when it becomes obsessive or compulsive. Learn what body checking is, why it’s harmful, and how to stop.
Having a Bad Body Image Day? Here's 10 Tips
Having a bad body image day is normal and doesn’t mean your relationship with your body is doomed. Whether you’re in eating disorder or disordered eating recovery, dealing with decades of body dissatisfaction, or simply a human in this world where it can be so hard to love your body, you are not alone.
Learn 10 tips to care for yourself on bad body image days.
Learn to Respect Your Body With These 10 Tips
Body respect takes work, but it can help you build a better relationship with your body. We share 10 dietitian-approved tips to build respect for your body.
What You Need To Know About Weight Stigma
Studies have shown that healthcare providers are some of the worst perpetrators of weight stigma.
For example, one study including 122 physicians found that the physicians were more likely to prescribe more tests to, spend less time with, and have negative views about heavier patients.
Another study found that among dietetic students and professionals, negative attitudes about higher weight patients were extremely prevalent.
Learn To Trust Your Body With These 5 Tips
Trusting your body can be a tough feat in today’s world. In a society that has told us that we need tips to dull our hunger, diet plans to control our eating, and exercise plans to manage our weight, it’s no wonder so many people don’t trust their bodies. But having mutual trust with your body can be an empowering experience. Learn five tips to renew trust in your body.
50 Positive Affirmations for Body Image
Everyone wants to have a good relationship with their body, yet most people struggle with this. With the constant bombardment of messaging about the “ideal” body from the media, it makes sense that many of us would struggle to have a positive body image. Affirmations may help cultivate a better body image.
How to Reclaim Your Movement Practice From Diet Culture
Movement doesn’t have to be a life-long struggle. Working towards detangling movement from diet culture not only promotes more sustainable, fun movement, it can also promote bone health, heart health, stress reduction, and boost your mood.
What is Set Point Weight Theory?
Weight set point theory explains why different people’s bodies gravitate towards different weight ranges, even if they all eat the same and workout the same. Learn whether your set point weight range can change and how to know your weight set point.
How Can I Stop Wasting So Much Food?
Lots of our Latine clients feel guilty about wasting food, largely because of the clean your plate mentality and notion that food is love. Learn how to cope with this and reduce your food waste.
What is the Nocebo Effect?
You’ve probably heard of the placebo effect before—where you receive a fake medical treatment (e.g. a pill) but experience improvements in your symptoms—but have you ever heard of the nocebo effect? Learn what the nocebo effect is and how to reduce its impact on your life.
C.H.U.L.A. Method Breakdown: Challenge Negative Thoughts
Have you ever noticed an inner voice policing your food? A voice that says certain foods are “bad”? A voice that makes you feel guilty for eating a certain type or amount of food? Do you have self-critical thoughts about your body? The “C” in CHULA is all about noticing and reframing these thoughts
4 Tips for Dealing with New Year Diet Talk
Entering a new year means diet culture is out in full force. There’s lots of pressure to work towards health goals which is often code for appearance-related goals. Meanwhile, we know that diets don’t work. They are not sustainable and our bodies and metabolism are far more complex than just calories in, calories out. After initial weight loss, up to ⅔ of dieters regain more weight than was lost and end up in a cycle of guilt and self-blame.
Why Intuitive Eating Means Breaking Up With Perfectionism
Social media has undoubtedly contributed to the rise in perfectionism. We see bodies idealized on social media that are edited and carefully posed. We constantly see people’s highlight reels instead of the ups and downs of real life. And we inevitably compare ourselves to what we see online. We strive for an unrealistic ideal and hyperfocus on our “imperfections” that are really just normal body features, such as cellulite, wrinkles, or fat. Our bodies become constant self-improvement projects and mediums for our perfectionism to run wild.
How Do I Get Over The Thin Ideal?
If you are working on intuitive eating, then you are actively working to reject the idea that intentional weight loss is possible and sustainable, rejecting the lies fed to you by diet culture, and working to accept your body however it is. This is way easier said than done. A common part of this process is grieving the thin ideal. So, what exactly does that mean?