EAT LIKE
YOU TEACH
How to Reset Your Weight
and Reclaim Your Life
IRENE PACE, RD
NEW YORK
LONDON • NASHVILLE • MELBOURNE • VANCOUVER
EAT LIKE YOU TEACH
How to Reset Your Weight and Reclaim Your Life
© 2020 Irene Pace, RD
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ISBN 9781642796896 paperback
ISBN 9781642796902 eBook
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019943714
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Interior Design by:
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Emotions Wheel graphic by Geoffrey Roberts
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Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Be Human – Like You Have a Choice
Chapter 3: Follow Instructions – An Owner’s Manual Made by You for You
Chapter 4: Start Here – Make Your Expectations Work for You
Chapter 5: Get Curious – Awareness, Curiosity, and Compassion
Chapter 6: Try Stuff – Experiment and Evaluate
Chapter 7: Eat Better – Five Steps to Reset Your Eating
Chapter 8: Boost Energy – Move and Sleep like Your Life Depends on It
Chapter 9: Cultivate Environment – Create an Operating Space that Supports You
Chapter 10: Take Action – Turn Knowing into Doing
Chapter 11: Steer Dynamically – Navigate Common Obstacles
Chapter 12: Own It – You Got This
Chapter 1:
An Introduction
“I don’t have to know how to solve a problem in me. I just have to be willing to have a new experience. Practice observing. Practice acceptance. Practice willingness.”
–Tracy McMillian
Being a nutrition professional who is struggling with eating sucks. It’s not just about your pants not fitting or the mind games you play with yourself like you can almost feel your arteries slamming shut (true story) or it’s somehow okay because what you’re impulsively eating is fruit and cottage cheese (also a true story). It’s isolating, distracting, and it messes with your confidence, your identity, and your integrity. You don’t turn to friends for support because you’re their go-to for all things nutrition. Outing yourself to colleagues feels like career suicide (not to mention more shame than you could bear right now).
As your waistline grows, you feel like it’s the elephant in the room. You’re distracted in appointments, wondering if your clients are onto you. The word “fraud” invades your thoughts like that song you can’t stand but can’t get out of your head. Eating trouble is not only costing
