Registered Dietitian in Louisville, KY
Personalized Intuitive Eating strategies helping you find your new Appetite for Balance
Elizabeth used to be in your shoes feeling frustrated with diet culture, which causes body image issues and yo-yoing weight. She can help you heal your relationship with food and your body.
Her practice focuses on mindful eating tactics and an intuitive eating approach. Before the program begins, she gets to know you and your needs to create an individualized set of goals that works for you.
Rejecting the notion of fad diets with short-term results, this holistic approach analyzes your health history, your current lifestyle, and many other factors.
One-On-One Counseling
As a Registered Dietitian in Kentucky, Elizabeth McIntyre is qualified to help you build healthy, maintainable eating habits and rediscover self-esteem. She steers you away from diet trends that often include strict rules leaving you feeling empty.
Through integrating physical activity with evidence-based nutrition strategies into your daily life, Appetite for Balance aims to shift the focus away from weight loss and unrealistic beauty standards and towards food habits that support a positive balance of mental and physical health.
Group Coaching
As with any lifestyle change, long-term changes are more likely to succeed when doing with friends. Group coaching is for groups of people that want to pursue long-lasting changes in their lives.
Small, intimate group sessions allow everyone to share their experiences in a supportive environment that encourages everyone to join the conversation. By doing it together, you can create sustainable changes in your health habits.
Group Maintenance
Opportunity to meet others that are in different parts of their Intuitive Eating journey. This community helps support and share struggles while encouraging each other. Get ready to be supported by other women just like you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Not everyone needs to see a registered dietitian. However, you may benefit from working with one if you need help managing a chronic disease or living with a restrictive diet. They can help you with personalized plans including meal plan options, learning to avoid binge eating and establishing a better relationship with food.
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It’s natural for people to occasionally have negative thoughts about their body image. Between social media and reality TV, we’re consistently fed “thinspiration” that tells you that you need to be a size zero to be beautiful. That’s not true.
Appetite for Balance suggests to people who are struggling with body image issues that they start by taking a break from social media (particularly Instagram), wear clothes that fit them, appreciate your body’s unique qualities and set aside moments to self-care (take a warm bath, get a good night’s sleep or go get a massage).
Your relationship with your body is the longest—and most important—relationship you’ll have in your lifetime. You should understand that bad days are just bad days and treat your body as you would your best friend—with compassion and respect.
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Yes, go for that donut or slice of cake. The “Habitual Eating Theory” suggests that the more access you have to an item, the less you’ll desire it.
Think about the last time you bought a dozen donuts for breakfast that week. Monday’s donut was terrific. Tuesday’s donut was pretty good too. But by Thursday, you probably wanted something else for breakfast.
Intuitive Eating dietitians don’t believe in restricting foods because that causes unnecessary cravings that cause you to “fall off the wagon.” By listening to our bodies, we can learn when our body needs other nutrients that we don’t get from donuts. Who knows, your body may start craving salads because of the freshness and crunch it provides to you.
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There’s no one meal that’s good or bad for you. Meal planning isn’t that black-and-white. Our bodies need a wide array of different nutrients at different times to stay happy and healthy.
Intuitive meal planning means creating balanced meals and avoiding narrowing in on specific foods. When we do this, the sum of our meals is greater than its parts.
Here’s a few tips: choose a variety of foods, choose colorful plates of food and focus more on hydrating (us Americans are typically de-hydrated).
Talk with Elizabeth
“I want to help people live happier, healthier and fuller lives. I’m available to all Kentuckians who want to discuss intuitive eating practices.”