Over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you the world of intuitive eating. As both a functional medicine practitioner as well as a registered Nutritional Therapist, I am acutely aware that highly prescriptive regimes are not sustainable, often…

Welcome to The Yana Clinic’s intuitive eating series. First things first, lets delve into the bare bones of exactly what intuitive eating is.

Well most importantly, it is not a diet. I feel it is important to say…

The diet industry is a $72 billion industry, that is ever growing. As the industry increases in profitability so does the obesity epidemic and subsequently the amount of people who end up living their lives in a world of guilt and shame…

I am trained in the world of functional medicine. This means as Nutritional Therapists we don’t just look at the symptom, we look at everything from genetics, to medical history, to lifestyle, to diet and many other…

Could it be that diets are counterproductive? Have you ever worked hard to lose weight, put mountains of effort, time and sacrifice into it? Just to feel like you are achieving the exact opposite? Here are some reasons why…

Have you ever been told to ignore hunger, maybe instead you were advised to drink water, or chew gum or have a carbonated drink before eating. Well me too! This, in the cold light of day seems like diet culture moving us another step further away from being able to both listen to and…

Understanding the nuances of hunger and their mechanisms, is a good first step in both acknowledging and being able to respond to our needs. Strengthening our inner narrative is key to not becoming blind-sided when irritability or low blood sugar takes over. Cutting hunger off at its…

Moving away from labelling food bad or good is key to soothing the relationship with our diet. Now I am not saying that some foods won’t service your need better than others, I am not saying some foods won’t feel better in your body than others. I am also not saying that some foods won’t…

That line between feeling satiated and feeling slightly sick is often blurry when we don’t check in with our bodies. When we follow prescriptive diets that feature restriction for an extended period of time, we often along with our hunger cues, lose track of our satiety…