It’s been 6 months since I launched my Co-Pilot program into the world 🥳

While the perfectionist in me was trying very hard to put off the launch in April 2024, my desire to help women improve their health without restriction won in the end.

Over the past 6 months, I’ve supported eight women in this program, and I’m thrilled to present the following results. These are all based on the intuitive eating scale used at the start and end of a 12-week period.

What is the intuitive eating scale?

This survey assesses four main components of a person’s relationship with food and body. 

• Food permission and guilt (Unconditional Permission to Eat) 
• Emotional eating (Eating for Physical Reasons) 
• Awareness and trust of body cues (Reliance on Hunger and Satiety Cues) 
• Desire to eat nutritious and energising foods (Body-Food Choice Congruence)

Results from the Co-Pilot program 

Food permission and guilt 

Before 

• High avoidance of high fat, high sugar, high calories foods 
• High guilt for eating the above foods 
• High deprivation of the above foods and body cravings 
• High reliance on external factors, e.g. diets to dictate when what and how much to eat 

After 

• Increased permission to eat high fat, high sugar, high calories foods 
• Significant reduction in guilt for eating the above foods 
• Increasing permission to honour food cravings 
• Significant reduction in reliance on external factors, e.g. diets to dictate when, what and how much to eat 

Emotional eating 

Before 

• High reliance on food to cope with negative emotions, e.g. stressed, bored, lonely

After 

• Significant decrease in reliance on food to cope with negative emotions, e.g. stressed, bored, lonely

Awareness and trust of body cues 

Before 

• Highly disconnected from hunger and fullness cues 
• Low trust in body signals to know when, what, and how much to eat
• Low reliance on body signals to know when to stop eating 

After 

• Increase in awareness of hunger and fullness cues 
• Increased trust in body signals to know when, what, and how much to eat 
• Higher reliance on body signals to know when to stop eating 

Desire to eat nutritious and energising foods 

Before 

• Low desire to eat energising/nourishing “healthy”  foods 
• Low intake of foods that make their body “feel good”, e.g. fruit & vegetables 

After 

• Strong desire to eat energising/nourishing “healthy”  foods 
• Increased intake of foods that make their body “feel good”, e.g. fruit & vegetables 

Example of specific goals reached during The Co-Pilot

• More acceptance of body (feel neutral towards body)
• Improved nutrition intake and improved energy levels
• Reduced binge eating and chaotic eating
• For food choices to feel less stressful
• Loosen the food rules, e.g. permission to add beans to salad
• Separate the idea of exercise away from punishment
• Honour internal desires rather than external “shoulds,” e.g. I should strength train, not do yoga
• Feel like a better role model around children re: nutrition and body image
• Listen, honour and trust body signals – hunger and fullness
• Have a simple, realistic, and sustainable system for food planning, prep and cooking
• Prioritise breaks, self-care, stress management (to reduce emotional reliance on food)
• Less food guilt and more self-compassion
• Framework for when I’m lured by a diet that I have a resource for myself (cost of diets)

How The Co-Pilot program works 

The Co-Pilot program is a 12-week hybrid program (combining 1:1 support, group coaching and on-demand training lessons) for women who’ve dieted forever and want to improve their health (without restriction), ditch the food noise and learn to trust their body again.

It’s facilitated by Erin, who shares the intuitive eating strategies, tools and support you need to stop the daily body hate, turn down the food noise and feel better inside and out so you have more time, energy & brain space to do the things you love

Want to join the next round of my life-changing Co-Pilot program?