Is meal planning the missing link to help you tackle your nutrition goals? Desiree talks meal planning, intuitive nutrition and more with Vancouver-based dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, Lindsay Pleskot RD.

If you’re new around here, you know that I don’t buy into the deprivation-focused messaging of the New Year. But I DO love a season where we feel like anything is possible…so my January episodes are typically focused on non-diet moves to help you live your healthiest life.

Although everyone on the internet seems to gloss over this fact, healthy living isn’t some two week detox filled with horse-scented capsules and celery juice sadness. But, it also isn’t a sparkly, unicorn-filled paradise you reach only once you eliminate gluten for good.

Real, transformative healthy eating is about figuring out what works for you and your lifestyle, and then showing up day after day, doing what you can, forever. It’s about small, sustainable wins…which are often facilitated by moments of motivation to set solid habits in place.

Which is where meal planning comes in…because if you are super busy (and who isn’t?) eating in line with your intentions requires planning your groceries and meals at least a little so that you don’t end up starving with no food in the fridge on a Wednesday night and ordering takeout.

So instead of using your good January energy to do something you can’t - and probably shouldn’t - maintain long term, what about using this time to figure out how to make home cooked meals more of a daily reality?

About Lindsay:

Lindsay is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, Food Blogger, and new Cookbook Author: her book The Feel-Good Meal Plan is out now!!

Lindsay is on a mission to make food feel good. Her goal is to remove the guilt, stress and overwhelm around food by helping women get out of the diet cycle and heal their relationship with food. As a busy working mom of two she also knows firsthand the stress of getting meals on the table day in and day out which led her to writing her first cookbook packed with time-saving recipes and strategies designed to simplify meal prep, reduce food waste, and bring more joy to your kitchen!

On this episode we chat about:

• Why we have to ditch external validation for our health behaviours
• How to reconnect to internal cues like hunger or fullness
• What does healthy eating look like to an intuitive eating dietitian?
• How does meal planning fit into a more intuitive eating approach?
• Finding the right style of meal prep for you
• Tips for streamlining grocery shopping
• Navigating feeding kids with meal prep
• A few tips for making positive change this year

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