Our Nuances of Intuitive Eating handout explores some of these differences. For example, not everyone experiences reliable physical hunger cues. Honoring hunger might mean using logical hunger and eating according to time. Fullness cues may also be difficult to identify, making meal timing or portion guidance helpful. And satisfaction doesn't always mean food needs to be pleasurable—sometimes eating simply meets a physical need.

Our Introduction to Intuitive Eating handout walks through all ten principles, including rejecting the diet mentality, honoring hunger, making peace with food, challenging the food police, discovering satisfaction, respecting your body, exploring enjoyable movement, and practicing gentle nutrition. It also addresses common misconceptions, including the idea that intuitive eating means eating whatever you want all the time or that it is a weight-loss approach.

At TLB Nutrition Therapy, we talk about both physical hunger and logical hunger. Physical hunger can show up in many ways, including stomach growling, difficulty concentrating, low energy, headaches, irritability, or simply thinking more about food. Logical hunger uses outside information—such as how long it has been since you last ate—to recognize when your body needs nourishment even if you aren't physically feeling hungry.

The handout includes strategies such as using time instead of hunger cues to remember meals, creating a short list of go-to foods, keeping low-effort meals available, using visual reminders, planning for low-capacity days, and reducing all-or-nothing thinking. It also emphasizes that repeated foods, convenience foods, and sensory preferences are valid tools—not failures.

Our ARFID handout explains what ARFID is, common signs and symptoms, myths surrounding the diagnosis, and practical nutrition considerations. It emphasizes the importance of honoring safe foods, building consistent eating routines, approaching food exposures with consent, and working with a multidisciplinary treatment team. Recovery isn't about forcing foods—it's about reducing anxiety, expanding flexibility, and helping people feel more confident around food over time.

Our Supporting Your Child with ARFID handout provides practical strategies for making mealtimes feel calmer and more successful. It encourages families to reduce pressure, support sensory preferences, validate children's experiences, and build a collaborative care team that may include a dietitian, occupational therapist, therapist, physician, and other providers. Recovery is a gradual process, and small steps truly matter.

Our Capacity-Based Meal Planning handout walks you through creating meal options for low-, medium-, and high-capacity days. Rather than seeing convenience foods as a failure, this framework encourages having nourishing options available at every level—from ready-made sandwiches and yogurt on low-capacity days to homemade meals when you have more energy. The goal isn't perfection—it's making nourishment more accessible, no matter what your day looks like.