The Midlife Feast

Welcome to Day 5, the final episode of the Midlife & Menopause Un-Dieting Mini-Series!
Over the last four days, we've explored four pillars that can help you build a more trusting, flexible relationship with food: understanding, self-compassion, attunement, and gentle nutrition.
But what happens when you put them all together?
In this episode, we're looking at the fear that stops many people from letting go of food rules: If I stop dieting, does that mean I stop caring about my health?
The answer is no!
You'll learn how to use nutrition knowledge without turning it into another set of rules, and how to care for your health without making food a full-time job.
Because the alternative to dieting isn't giving up. It's finding a way of eating that actually works for real life.
Free support to get you started:
Un-Diet Your Mindset → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/undietyourmindset
Food Guilt Decoder → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder
Want more support?
Try the Midlife Feast Community free for 7 days → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/7daytrial
Book a no-strings connection call (virtual coffee with me) → https://p.bttr.to/3DQX9SF
Related episodes:
Day 1 → https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19715276
Day 2 → https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19720938
Day 3 →https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19721372
Day 4 →https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19728345
What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!
📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now!  Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife.
Looking for more about midlife,  menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/links

Welcome back to Day 4 of my Midlife and Menopause Un-Dieting series. Yesterday I asked you to sit with one question: what do I want?  It's sometimes easier to outsource "what should I eat?" than to honestly ask what you want. Today we add the other half: what do I need? And that's where gentle nutrition comes in.
Un-dieting doesn't mean throwing nutrition out the window. It means bringing it in as information, not another set of rules. The trap is that diet culture has made weight loss a proxy for everything, and I firmly believe that your health should not become a full-time job!
So we come back to the question of this series: what would taking care of myself look like if I didn't require my body to get smaller in return? That widens the lens.  That's what I love about gentle nutrition: instead of asking what to cut out, you get to ask what you can add. 
Your practice for today: ask what do I want, then add what do I need, and see what happens when you let both into the conversation.
Tomorrow is Day 5, where we bring all four pillars together so food and eating  feel easier. Because menopause is hard enough. Food shouldn't be!
Free support to get you started:
Un-Diet Your Mindset → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/undietyourmindset
Food Guilt Decoder → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder
Want more support?
Try the Midlife Feast Community free for 7 days → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/7daytrial
Book a no-strings connection call (virtual coffee with me) → https://p.bttr.to/3DQX9SF
Related episodes:
Day 1 → https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19715276
Day 2 → https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19720938
Day 3 →https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19721372
What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!
📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now!  Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife.
Looking for more about midlife,  menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/links

Welcome to day 3 of the Midlife & Menopause Un-Dieting Series. If you’ve spent years following food rules, tracking what you eat, or being told you can’t trust yourself around food, “just listen to your body” can feel like a foreign language.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about attunement - what it actually means, why your hunger and satisfaction cues may feel hard to hear, and how to start reconnecting with them.
I also share a very real-life reminder that capability and capacity are not the same thing, plus a simple 10-second practice to try before your next meal.
Free support to get you started:
Un-Diet Your Mindset → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/undietyourmindset
Food Guilt Decoder → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder
Want more support?
Try the Midlife Feast Community free for 7 days → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/7daytrial
Book a no-strings connection call (virtual coffee with me) → https://p.bttr.to/3DQX9SF
Related episodes:
Day 1 — How to Un-Diet in Midlife and Menopause → https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19715276
Day 2 → https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19720938
What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!
📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now!  Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife.
Looking for more about midlife,  menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/links

Welcome back to Day 2 of my Midlife and Menopause Un-Dieting series. Yesterday we talked about the diet cycle - the plan, the tracking, the promise that this time you'll have more discipline… until life gets lifey and it all falls apart. Today I want to gently blow up the story we tell ourselves next: that we failed because we don't have enough willpower.
Here's what I hear all the time: "I know what to do, I just don't do it." And I get it! You do know that protein matters and that eating nothing all day leaves you eating crackers out of the box at 9pm. The problem was never that you don't care enough. The real question is: what are you actually asking yourself to do?
In this episode I redefine self-compassion (hint: it's not about being nice to yourself), unpack why all-or-nothing thinking keeps the cycle spinning, and remind you that health does not require perfect eating. 
Tomorrow: attunement, and how to listen to your body without turning intuitive eating into another set of rules.
Free support to get you started:
Un-Diet Your Mindset → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/undietyourmindset
Food Guilt Decoder → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder
Want more support?
Try the Midlife Feast Community free for 7 days → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/7daytrial
Book a no-strings connection call (virtual coffee with me) → https://p.bttr.to/3DQX9SF
Related episodes:
Day 1 — How to Un-Diet in Midlife and Menopause → https://themidlifefeast.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19715276-day-1-how-to-un-diet-in-midlife-and-menopause
What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!
📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now!  Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife.
Looking for more about midlife,  menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/links

Half a million downloads. I'm still a little speechless! To celebrate, I'm doing a five-day un-dieting mini-series, and Day 1 starts with the one question I want you to carry into every episode: What would taking care of myself look like if I didn't require my body to get smaller in return?
In this short episode I explain why un-dieting isn't the same as "not dieting." Un-dieting is unlearning, letting go of the default programming that says your body has to shrink in exchange for eating a vegetable, moving your body, or adding more protein to your plate. I walk you through the diet cycle I see so many of us stuck in, why it stops working, and how even "weight-neutral" goals can quietly pull you right back in.
No download or signup required, just a few minutes  a day for the next 5 days.

Free support to get you started:
Un-Diet Your Mindset → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/undietyourmindset
Food Guilt Decoder → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder
If you need some support:
Try the Midlife Feast Community free for 7 days → https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/7daytrial
Book a no-strings connection call (virtual coffee with me) → https://p.bttr.to/3DQX9SF

What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!
📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now!  Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife.
Looking for more about midlife,  menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/links