Erica Mouch Nutrition

Starting April 10th at 12 pm PST on Fridays for the following six consecutive weeks - Join me in building your Motivational Interviewing skills and enhancing your practice.

Stay tuned for IN PERSON retreats coming soon.

Highly recommend reading this heart wrenching and honest article:

No Health, No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath "Providers didn’t all miss the day where med students were taught not to be cruel to fat people. Medical fatphobia is medicine’s status quo."

How do you learn what food makes you feel satisfied, nourished and energized?
After working to remove the diet mentality (which can very often get in the way of figuring it out), increase your curiosity around food.
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A good place to start is something that had a combination of carbohydrates, protein, fat and fiber. This combination of food tends to make our bodies feel pretty darn good. Next start to experiment with this more - change things here and there - maybe vary your protein or the fat you are having. After the meal, how long did you feel satisfied for? If it was 2 hours or less, you most likely needed more food or a different combination of food. If you felt particularly drowsy after the meal - get curious - have you eaten enough before that particular meal during the day? What combination of foods were present?
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Its pretty magical when you start to learn the ways your body is sharing its cues with you. Give yourself time, patience and kindness - it won’t happen overnight and for some of us - may even take years.
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What helped you learn what is satisfying and energizing for yourself?

One common misconception I hear from folks is that they expect attuned eating to help them learn EXACTLY what they want to eat.

Sometimes this can be the case. Sometimes you will know that you want a cheeseburger and french fries. Other times you may only know inklings of what you want - warm food, spicy food, crunchy etc.

Coming from diet culture, where everything is black and white, it can seem like attuned eating ‘should’ also have some of these elements (like always knowing what you want to eat) but in reality, there is so much grey.

What is it like to allow yourself to NOT know exactly what you want to eat?