Is This Actually Healthy?! Navigating Weight Gain + Intuitive Eating with Naomi Katz

Today we're talking all about Intuitive Eating! Something that I'm a big fan of and allude to a lot, but I haven't shared an episode about it yet. Today is the day! Many of my clients and listeners are kind of on board with it (you too?) but haven't completely gone all in or mastered it yet. Or maybe you have, but you gained weight and now you're wondering "how can this be healthy?" If yes, this episode is for you! Naomi Katz (she/her/hers) is a Certified Intuitive Eating Lay Facilitator, body image coach, and owner of Happy Shapes Coaching in Asheville, North Carolina. She supports and holds space for folks who are ready to reject diet culture so they can reclaim their autonomy and consent over their mind, body, and life. Rather than zooming in on the nutrition side of Intuitive Eating, Naomi focuses her coaching on the mindset piece—holding conversations about self-trust, body image, what the folks she works with value in their everyday lives, how diet culture robs us of these things, and how to navigate the process of rejecting and unlearning.  Naomi practices through a Health at Every Size and fat positive lens, and offers online individual and group coaching that focuses on learning to identify the systems influencing our feelings about food and our bodies, and learning to reclaim our power from those systems. Because we have bigger, better things to do in this world than spending our lives trying to fit a false ideal. On this episode we talk about: What Intuitive Eating is and what it isn't. Red flags to look out for when you're trying to follow or work with someone on Intuitive Eating. How to know when you can DIY Intuitive Eating, work with a coach like Naomi, or need a Registered Dietitian. How to navigate and take the shame out of lingering hopes for weight loss when you start down the path of intuitive eating. Dealing with weight gain with Intuitive Eating and answering the "is this really healthy?" question. Naomi's hot takes on the way Intuitive Eating is presented. Why Intuitive Eating is a little like that 90's toy "Puppy Surprise" ⁠Work with me!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Get my free mini push-up program⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Follow & tag me on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Work with Naomi ⁠⁠Listen to Naomi's podcast⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Follow and tag Naomi on Instagram⁠ Official Intuitive Eating Stuff