Gentle nutrition guides
Nutrition made simple, intuitive, and sustainable.
Reject the diet
culture mentality
Remove guilt and
shame around eating
Balance nourishment
with pleasure
When it feels like traditional
dieting just isn't working...
Traditional diet books and “healthy eating guides” love to tell
you what foods to avoid, what to eat and when to eat it.
These guides always feel so easy to follow, right up until you
“fall off the wagon” and have to start over.
Here’s what diets get wrong: Healthy eating doesn’t have to
feel like punishment. We believe that you deserve practical,
non-restrictive, and shame-free nutrition advice that makes meal
planning feel easier and eating feel more intuitive.
Our gentle nutrition guides are the perfect complement
to sessions with your non-diet dietitian and are designed
to support your intuitive eating journey.
Gentle nutrition guides
Practical, non-restrictive, and shame-free nutrition advice that makes meal planning feel easier and eating feel more intuitive.
Gentle Nutrition Guide
Our Gentle Nutrition Guides help you nourish your body without rigid rules or guilt. Based in the Intuitive Eating framework, this guide provides clear, practical eating and meal planning tips, so you’ll feel confident making food choices that fit your lifestyle—whether you’re at home, dining out, or on the go.
Diabetes Nutrition Guide
We took our popular Gentle Nutrition Guides and reworked them to provide practical, non-restrictive, and shame-free nutrition advice for those with diabetes. You'll learn how to navigate day to day situations with confidence, removing stress around making food choices.
Crafted by intuitive eating dietitians
Our gentle nutrition guides will help you navigate day to day situations with confidence, removing stress around making food choices.
What's included in your guide:
Your 46 page guide includes ten thoughtfully crafted sections that walk you through how to balance nourishment with pleasure in eating.
In your guide you’ll find:
- 20+ simple meal ideas
- 25+ easy snack ideas
- 20+ tips for eating intuitively outside the home
Plus:
- Meal planning worksheets
- Non-diet grocery lists
- 2 step-by-step video guides to showing you how to put it all together
What makes our gentle nutrition different
Frequently asked questions
Who can use these guides?
Everyone! While we do think this guide is a great accompaniment to the intuitive eating literature, you don’t have to know about or be actively practicing intuitive eating to use this guide. If you are practicing intuitive eating, we think you’ll find this guide helpful as you navigate the final principle, gentle nutrition.
How does this fit into intuitive eating?
Gentle nutrition is the last step of the intuitive eating process, and for good reason. Eating for physical health may draw you back into black and white thinking about food. What foods are “healthy” or “unhealthy”, “good” or “bad”. Establishing a foundation of food neutrality and body trust has to come first. Otherwise you run the risk of turning intuitive eating into another diet. Talk to your dietitian to see if our guides would be right for you.
Is gentle nutrition a weight loss diet?
No, gentle nutrition is not a weight loss diet.
Our guides are designed to support your journey in honoring your physical health with food so you can balance your diet with foods that both taste good AND feel good in your body.
Intuitive eating teaches you how to listen to your body’s cues for hunger, fullness, and satisfaction and reject the dieting mentality that gets in the way of you being able to do so.
While practicing gentle nutrition and intuitive eating, your body may settle into it’s biologically appropriate/set point range or may not change at all.
Does the guide come in digital or hard copy?
The guide is available digitally for you to access anywhere, anytime. Of course, you are free to print your guide if you prefer to have a version on hand.
How do I access my guide after I purchase?
When you purchase your nutrition guide, you will be prompted to make an account on Podia. You will also receive an email on how to access your account. You can view your purchases at any time by logging into your Podia account.
What if I feel like I need more support?
Our guides can certainly be a good baseline for you during your nutrition journey, and it makes sense if you feel like you need a bit more help implementing gentle nutrition principles into your every day life. Our dietitians can help you take the information found in our guides and translating it into actionable items for your lifestyle. Make an appointment today!
Gentle nutrition & intuitive eating blogs
Our dietitians share their expert insights on meal planning, chronic disease management, and how to foster a healthy relationship with food.
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