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Break free from the rigidity of dieting to discover a sustainable way of living that feeds your unique mind, body, and soul.

 
 
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I'm Lindsay Sparks, a registered dietitian on a mission to help others move beyond the numbers and recognize that their value and beauty comes from within. Life is more than just going through the motions, it's about getting in tune with your mind and body to live a life well-nourished.

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It's time to ignite and radiate confidence from within by creating the happy, healthy life you deserve. Together, we'll redefine the way you view what healthy is and help you make peace with food and your body.

 

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Ignite Your Inner Spark

 
The “Intuitive Eater’s Holiday Bill of Rights” by @evelyntribole and @elyseresch. 🙌 . If you are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday this week, please remember that you have permission to enjoy eating without guilt or a bunch of mental gymnastics, not just during the holidays, but everyday. 💞 . Share with me: What’s your favorite Thanksgiving day dish?
Soaking up this 66*F day on the front porch, reading a book and sipping on some hot tea. 🍵🌞 . The book (Birthing From Within) was recommended by my midwife and a dear friend, to help me prepare for my plan of a natural childbirth. I’m finding it has many parallels with the non-diet, intuitive eating approach I am so passionate about. The authors talk about “emptying the mind” of expectations and judgements of conditioned learning. They state: “true understanding springs from an open, curious mind, and can be achieved only after the cultural blinders of conditioned learning have been removed.” YES! 💕 I think the same can be said for rejecting the diet mentality. Diet culture indeed conditions us to think we need external rules, that our bodies are not to be trusted, and that our natural desires with food are flawed. . Diet culture blinds us to the fact that our weight is only one component to health, that BMI and weight-centric approaches are outdated and harmful, and that we have so much more to offer the world than our body’s appearance. . Unlearning diet culture takes time, patience, compassion, curiosity, and lots of tuning out the “noise” to rediscover a joyful relationship with food and body. It is not a linear journey, but the outcomes are worth fighting for. . . P.S: I am NOT trying to say that natural birth is “better” than intervention based birth. Or that I’m somehow superior for attempting a natural birth. This is simply an option I’m trying for, for me and Virginia, for many reasons I chose not to go into on here as they are private and personal.
You don’t need “willpower,” “portion control” or a “lifestyle program” when you are an intuitive eater. When your relationship with food is positive and respectful, there’s no need for external rules. Your body is wise! You are enough. . . #bodytrust #bodyacceptance #ditchthediet #nondiet #intuitiveeating #healthateverysize
“I’m an emotional eater.” “I eat when I’m feeling _______.” These are statements I’ve heard from patients and clients SO many times. And often, they come with a tone of guilt, embarrassment, and shame. 😔 . Listen, unless you murdered someone to get the food you are eating, there is no reason to feel guilt. That moral code around food is a product of diet culture, and ya gotta kick that 💩 to the curb. 😜 Guilt or shame have no place in your eating experience. Ever. 🙅🏼‍♀️ . Tomorrow, I’ll be chatting ALL about emotional eating via a Facebook Live at about 10:30am (CDT), with @marianeidertv of @ky3news. I’ll be sharing why food IS innately emotional, why emotional eating is not “bad,” how diet culture can get in the way of fostering a healthy relationship with food, tips to help you cope with emotions without food, and lots more! . Be sure to tune in and comment below with any questions/concerns you’d like me to address on this topic! 👇🏻 . [📷: Tomato soup + buttered toast I had this afternoon. 🍅 It was very comforting and happily eaten on this cold, wintry day in the Ozarks! ❄️
How cute are these bibs my sweet co-worker made?! 😍🥑 We found out last week that baby Sparks has girl parts. 😆 We almost didn’t get to know because she was being modest (or ornery, like her dad and/or stubborn, like her mom 😉); she kept blocking the ultrasound tech from seeing the goods. 😂 I can’t wait to raise our little Virginia Rae as an intuitive eater and help teach her that all bodies are good bodies. 💕
What are the pieces that make up health for you? . For me, eating healthy means adding, not subtracting. It means flexibility, freedom, and variety. It means enjoying social situations and spontaneity, without food rules or having to “earn it” or “make up for it later.” It means relying on simple, quick/easy options so that I can spend time and money on other things I value. It means eating foods that are satisfying and nourishing. It means having less brain space taken up obsessing over my body and letting my body just be what it is. . Eating “healthy,” to me, means putting your mental health on the same playing field as your physical health. . . P.S. if anyone knows who said this quote, let me know! I wrote it down forever ago but failed to put the author. 🙃