The Midlife Feast

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
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📚 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

This is the 200th episode and the season finale, and I'm closing out the season by defending the most controversial breakfast on the internet: oatmeal.
I'm only half joking. Yes, I answer all of your oatmeal questions in this episode. Steel cut versus rolled, how to add protein, cooked versus overnight, and whether it deserves its reputation as a heart-healthy food. But the real conversation is about something bigger. If a humble bowl of oatmeal can make us anxious, then we have some food noise to untangle.
I share why so many of us are overcomplicating food and what information overload does to our confidence. My hope is that you finish this one feeling calmer, more confident, and ready to spend less time thinking about food and more time living your life.
Grab my 5 easy Build-A-Bowl Oatmeal recipes
Related episodes you'll love:
#105 Dear Diet Culture Diary: What the 80s Taught Us About Food: https://themidlifefeast.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/14680165-105-dear-diet-culture-diary-what-the-80s-taught-us-about-food
#147 How to Stop the Cycle of "Starting Over" Every Monday: https://themidlifefeast.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/16816700-147-how-to-stop-the-cycle-of-starting-over-every-monday
#199 Why you Don't Trust Yourself Around Food with Fiona Sutherland: https://themidlifefeast.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/19377509
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