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Have you heard of intuitive eating? Intuitive eating is not a diet, it promotes healthy eating habits, healthy relationships with food, and better body image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intuitive eating teaches you to touch base with your internal cues rather than the external diet rules you would have learned to try to control your eating habits and weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 10 principles of intuitive eating were written by the \u2018Intuitive Eating Pros\u2019 Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. These principles, as they have written in their books, are outlined below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reject The Diet Mentality<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first principle is about letting go and unlearning everything about dieting. While many diets have failed, you might still be believing that you just haven\u2019t found the one that will work for you. Let this belief go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The diet culture can make you feel bad about eating the food that you want and promise you quick weight loss. Reject this diet mentality and free yourself from guilt and feelings of failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honor Your Hunger<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The diet culture teaches you to ignore your hunger cues, but your hunger is the prime biological signal that tells you to eat because your body needs energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intuitive eating is about eating when you are hungry and figuring out what food your body wants. You need to feed your body adequately so that it can function better. Otherwise, you\u2019ll overeat and choose food impulsively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make Peace With Food<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With the system of dieting, there are lots of foods that you are made to believe you should avoid at all costs if you want to lose weight. However, the principle of intuitive eating is that you should allow yourself to eat whatever you enjoy eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This practice helps you avoid uncontrollable cravings and eating \u2018forbidden\u2019 food excessively because you don\u2019t know when you may get a chance to eat it again. Now is the time to make peace with food favorites and know that you can have them whenever your body sends the cues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenge The Food Police \u2013 The Internal and External Voices<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The voices in your head, let\u2019s refer to them as the \u2018food police\u2019 are telling you that you are \u2018bad\u2019 for eating that bar of chocolate or for getting an extra bowl of ice cream. The food police can also be an external factor such as your partner or friend. Perhaps they are telling you that you shouldn\u2019t be eating that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intuitive eating is letting go of both your internal judgment that you are bad or good based on the food that you eat, and ignoring comments from others. Instead, you should engage in more positive self-talk and focus on self-care instead of punishing yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover The Satisfaction Factor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You have the right to enjoy the food that you eat. Intuitive eating teaches you to choose pleasure food consciously. When you do that, you can avoid bingeing and overeating. When you eat mindfully, you can notice when you have eaten enough and are satisfied and make the conscious effort to stop eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feel Your Fullness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By noticing your body\u2019s signals, you will feel it telling you to stop eating because you are full. It\u2019s when you have eaten adequately but you are not uncomfortably full. Recognizing your feelings of fullness helps you to stop pressuring yourself to \u201cclean your plate,\u201d a practice you have most likely been taught as a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cope With Your Emotions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yes, you can use food to cope with your emotions, and emotional eating is okay up to a certain point. Intuitive eating teaches you that you should be able to tell whether you\u2019re physically hungry or emotionally hungry. You shouldn\u2019t use food as your only coping mechanism because it won\u2019t help you address the real cause of your emotional distress. Instead, you should eat when you need to, not just because you want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respect Your Body<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Intuitive eating focuses on behavior rather than what your weighing scale shows. Everyone\u2019s body is different and there is no telling what weight you are supposed to maintain. Instead, you should treat your body with respect, feed it adequately, move it, get enough sleep, and manage your stress. All these can lead to a healthy body size that\u2019s right for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Move Your Body and Feel The Difference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The diet culture might have forced you to exercise excessively or dread it because it has become a chore. Intuitive eating is about moving your body not because you want to lose weight but because the movement makes you feel good. You don\u2019t have to force yourself to run every day if your body enjoys walking. So, intuitive eating teaches you to move your body for fun, not punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honor Your Health With Gentle Nutrition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While intuitive eating teaches you to unlearn everything about the diet culture, there is one thing you shouldn\u2019t forget – nutrition. It\u2019s about using food science to help you choose the foods that will satisfy your needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As you can see intuitive eating is not about losing weight. It\u2019s about getting in touch with your internal cues, allowing you to develop healthier eating habits and better relationships with food. When you touch base with how you are wired to eat, you can develop a healthy body image, and improve your well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are You Sick of Trying to Achieve the Weight You Are ‘Supposed’ To Be?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Instead of dieting, a non-diet approach may be what you need to become a healthier you!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Intuitive eating teaches you to touch base with your internal cues rather than the external diet rules you would have learned to try to control your eating habits and weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Intuitive Eating\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This eBook will help you understand the aims, precepts and benefits of this approach to eating, and help you decide if it can help you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the excesses of modern living did not exist, health protocols such as intuitive eating would be unnecessary. But they do, and we feel forced to battle with them constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n