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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Georgia Tech students are invited to attend a series of workshops on Intuitive Eating. These workshops will introduce the 10 Intuitive Eating principles and feature discussions between Health Initiatives nutritionists and students on how to apply intuitive eating to a busy college lifestyle.
The workshop Discover the Satisfaction Factor & Honor Your Feelings Without Using Food encourages you to find ways to comfort, nurture, distract, and resolve your issues without using food. Anxiety, loneliness, boredom, anger are emotions we all experience throughout life. Each has its own trigger, and each has its own appeasement. Food won’t fix any of these feelings. It may comfort for the short term, distract from the pain, or even numb you into a food hangover. But food won’t solve the problem. If anything, eating for an emotional hunger will only make you feel worse in the long run. You’ll ultimately have to deal with the source of the emotion, as well as the discomfort of overeating.
Intuitive eating is a non-diet approach to eating that encourages healthy relationships with food and focuses on the importance of bodily cues such as hunger or fullness. It discourages dieting habits such as setting calorie limits or restrictive eating, and instead emphasizes that the body innately knows what it needs to fuel itself throughout the day.
Meetings are bi-weekly on Thursdays at 4:00 pm. To read about the 10 principles and register, go to - healthinitiatives.gatech.edu/intuitive-eating
