Speaking Of Hungry

Happy September! Today's episode was inspired by a fellow intuitive eating dietitian, Lauren Sharpe (@loandlemons) who posted on Instagram: "If you have to track every morsel of food you put in your mouth to maintain your weight, that is not a healthy weight for you." Lauren's post really resonated with me because I was DEFINITELY an obsessive food tracker in my disordered days. It started innocently enough with Weight Watchers in my teenage years but exploded into weighing, measuring, and tracking the calories of every single thing I ate.  This led to my body being weight-suppressed, or at a lower weight than what was natural for my body shape and size.  Even though I still fit into the "correct" BMI and weight range on those awful height/weight charts, there were many signals from my body trying to tell me this weight wasn't right. I lost my period for one year on three separate occasions. I was irritable, depressed, and high-strung around food and exercise decisions. I spent WAY too much time planning and