Tag: Binge eating
Principle #7: Cope with Emotions with Kindness
You wake up on Monday morning, determined to start your perfect eating day. You eat your pre-measured cereal (portion control!), for lunch you have another Instagram worthy meal, followed by an apple with 8 almonds (yes, you counted) for your afternoon snack. And then comes the dinner - you feel tired and just want to… Continue reading Principle #7: Cope with Emotions with Kindness
Principle #6: Feel Your Fullness
Do you feel compelled to measure and/or weight your food before it’s allowed to land on your plate? Does it feel like things would go “wild” if you let go of meticulously studying nutrition facts and counting calories and macros? These dieting tools, along with many others, like food tracking apps, scales, weight loss pills… Continue reading Principle #6: Feel Your Fullness
Principle #4: Challenge the Food Police
What is Food Police and why it’s important to challenge it? Food Police in intuitive eating refers to all the strict rules about food and eating, inflicted by the diet culture, which we have internalized from dieting. It’s located in our heads, making sure we follow its rules and “writing us a ticket” every time… Continue reading Principle #4: Challenge the Food Police
Principle #3: Make Peace with Food
Do you treat certain foods as your enemy?Do you have foods you feel “out of control” with or “unsafe” to be around?Do you allow yourself certain foods only if you “compensate” eating them by skipping the next meal or over-exercising? Providing yourself with an unconditional permission to eat is a necessary step in the intuitive… Continue reading Principle #3: Make Peace with Food
Principle #2: Honour Your Hunger
Diet culture makes us believe that our bodies can’t be trusted with hunger cues and that we need to wait until we are “allowed” to eat, suppressing hunger with another cup of water, coffee or herbal tea or doing some push ups. This questionable advice triggers our basic survival mechanism, that protects us from dying… Continue reading Principle #2: Honour Your Hunger
Principle #1: Reject the Diet Mentality
Acknowledging that diets don’t work is the first step in shifting from dieting to intuitive eating. Reflecting on your dieting history can help to recognize that even if some of your past diet experiences had resulted in weight loss, chances are it was temporary, inevitably leading to a weight gain afterwards and bringing you to… Continue reading Principle #1: Reject the Diet Mentality
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