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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

 
Wanted an ice cream sandwich. Made an ice cream sandwich. Ate part of the sandwich and gave the rest to hubs because it was too rich at the time (and tbh, the cookies kind of sucked). Moved on with life. 🤷‍♀️ . This ability to eat sweets and move on without paying a penance or resulting in a binge (especially leading up to a holiday week!) did not happen overnight. Making peace with food and your body is a process. But as with learning anything new in life, you have to practice. If you were going to learn how to paint, for example, would you just read books about painting? No, you’d probably pick up some paint and a paintbrush too. 🎨 . With each eating experience, you have the opportunity to explore, practice attunement, and to re-examine your thoughts and behaviors around food. 💭 If you are constantly depriving yourself of foods you want or are practicing restrained eating, 95% of the time it has a backlash effect in some way. . Research tells us that giving yourself “unconditional permission” to eat ALL foods (aka habituation with foods that we deem “forbidden” or “bad” or “unhealthy”) actually lead us to eating both nutrient dense foods and “play foods” in a balance over time. We begin to trust our signals and seek foods that nourish us both physically and emotionally. . If you are trying to “save up” your calories for Thanksgiving, are avoiding “bad foods” so that you can “go all out,” or plan to “start your new diet plan on X…after the holidays…” please know that you don’t have to live life on this pendulum swing! For more ideas and insights around intuitive eating during the holidays, check out my post via @wellseek. Link in my bio.
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. 💕