Don't Salt My Game.

Hey team, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist,

director of London Center for Enchase of Eating, an author of Just Eat It, as well as my new book

How to Just Eat It. We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health,

food, body liberation, and some other things thrown in

for shits. In this episode, we're talking about Chapter 11, Gentle Nutrition. Gentle Nutrition is the

last principle of intuitive eating, because before we approach nutrition information, we really

want to have broken down food rules, dismantled black and white thinking around food

and given ourselves lots of unconditional permission to eat. And most importantly, given ourselves

plenty of time to work our way out of feelings of restriction and deprivation that can make

food feel chaotic and out of control. If we come to gentle nutrition before we're ready, it can be a way that we

justify restriction to ourselves. That's particularly true for anyone who has an eating disorder

history, but equally applies to folks living in diet culture who have been socialized to be a rule

follower or to not rock the boat too much, so they assimilate

and fit in. So if you're jumping straight in with gentle nutrition, then I invite you to pause

and reflect on whether that's coming from a place of self-care and self-respect or a place of

self-control and self-hatred before going any further. I think it's also helpful to keep in mind that there's no

single diet, food or pattern of eating that can result in immortality, perfect health or

permanent weight loss. What works best for you and your body will vary depending on a ton of factors. Your access to food, your stress levels,

whether you're dealing with any background health concerns, financial considerations,

your physical capacity to plan, shop and cook for foods, which could be variable,

as well as the trauma of living in diet culture and other oppressive systems,

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