Learn about the core principles of intuitive eating and how it can transform your relationship with food. Explore the negative impacts of chronic dieting and the benefits of adopting intuitive eating. Discover practical tips for putting intuitive eating into practice and improving your overall well-being.
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Quick takeaways
Intuitive eating promotes listening to body cues for hunger and fullness, allowing food variety without guilt or labels.
Chronic dieting leads to negative consequences like eating disorders, weight cycling, and impacts on mental well-being.
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Understanding Intuitive Eating vs. Dieting
Intuitive eating focuses on listening to your body's cues for hunger and fullness, allowing a wide variety of foods without guilt or fixation on good or bad labels. In contrast, constant dieting and restrictions trigger cravings, binge eating, and feelings of guilt and shame. The imbalance created by diets leads to emotional and physical consequences, such as increased risk of eating disorders and weight cycling. Intuitive eating aims for a healthier psychological attitude, lower BMI, and overall better well-being.
The Impact of Chronic Dieting on Health
Chronic dieting brings about a host of negative consequences, including increased risk of eating disorders, weight cycling, and higher set point weight. It contributes to emotional eating, physical health issues like heart disease, and impacts mental well-being and social life. Chronic dieting costs time, money, and effort, often resulting in weight gain, lower self-esteem, and an obsessive focus on food and body image.
Benefits of Intuitive Eating
Studies show that intuitive eating leads to lower rates of disordered eating, emotional eating, and improved psychological health. Intuitive eaters exhibit higher self-esteem, well-being, and body appreciation. They have better coping skills, body image, and a wider variety of food consumption. Intuitive eating interventions have higher retention rates compared to traditional diets, promoting long-term behavioral changes and improved physical and mental health.
Transitioning to Intuitive Eating
Transitioning to intuitive eating involves understanding and respecting your body's natural cues for hunger and satisfaction. It empowers individuals to eat without guilt, enjoy a variety of foods, and focus on self-compassion. Intuitive eating counteracts societal ideals of perfect health equating to a specific body shape, emphasizing that health isn't about rigid dieting but about nurturing a positive relationship with food and body.
You may have heard me use the phrase “intuitive eating” , or have seen it on social media in the form of pictures of thin women eating ice cream with #foodfreedom, but maybe you aren’t sure what it means or if it could ever work for you.
If you’ve been dieting for the majority of your life, feel out-of-control around food and can’t stop thinking about what you’re eating/your weight 24/7, then adopting this new approach to healthy living & eating could be life-changing for you.
In this solo episode, you’ll going to learn :
What Intuitive Eating is (and what it’s not)
Who Intuitive Eating is for
Why dieting doesn’t work, and how it affects your body in the long-term
The benefits of Intuitive Eating
How you can put IE into practice, and why it’s the solution to heal your relationship with food & your body