So what is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive Eating is about trusting your inner body wisdom to make choices around food that feel good in your body, without judgment and without influence from diet culture. If you’ve been caught in the cycle of "dieting for years, Intuitive Eating is guilt free lifestyle that will change your life for the better.
Intuitive Eating is an evidence based, mind-body approach created by two amazing women named Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995. It’s about developing a non diet attitude that helps you tune into your body’s wants and needs by breaking the cycle of dieting. In fact, it’s about relearning how to eat outside of the diet mentality that you may be stuck in. Intuitive Eating is about listening and understanding your hunger cues to heal your relationship with food, because all bodies deserve dignity, respect, and love. As an intuitive eater, your eating style is one that has a healthy attitude towards food and body image. It sounds simple, but if you’ve been caught up in the cycle of dieting, you know how hard it can be!
We are all born intuitive eaters. Looking at food with a child-like mindset in mind has helped me overcome a lot of my struggles. As babies we cry, we eat, and we stop when we’re full. As we get older, we set boundaries around food and we lose trust in our intuitive abilities. Giving yourself freedom to chose the type of food you want to fuel your body by listening to your physical hunger cues is the ticket to enjoying life. After years of labeling food as “good” and “bad”, learning and practicing intuitive eating has been such a blessing. Looking at food from the lens of an intuitive eater has been empowering…
Enjoying a nice salad with a croissant for lunch…because who doesn’t that!
Intuitive Eating empowered me to trust my intuition. If I’m hungry for a bagel on a Saturday morning, I’ll have the bagel with some avocado on top. There was a point in my life where I would never allow that for myself (bagels were “bad”). If I ate one, shame would follow…
Dieting, food labeling, and shame had projected all of this negativity around food. I carried this connotation around for years, which only made me feel guilty when I ate “bad” foods. The saga goes on…social media and outside influences paint a picture of what we should look like, what we should be eating, and what types of work outs we should be doing. In reality, all bodies are different. What works for one person might not work for the other. Becoming more in tune with our physical hunger cues and tapping into what our intuition is telling us our bodies need will alleviate the anxiety around food. Break the cycle of dieting and learn how to trust your intuition with Intuitive Eating.
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