The fifth step of intuitive eating involves learning to respect and know when your body is feeling full. Why is this the fifth step? In order to eat intuitively and recognize the feeling of being full, you have to allow yourself to eat. That is why it is important for you to reject diet mentality, … Read more
Once you have begun to make peace with food, it is time to learn how to challenge the food police. Your inner food police has a profound effect on how you interact with and respond to food, often negatively. Before we get into how to combat this, we need to go over what the food … Read more
In order to truly make peace with food, you have to build trust between yourself and your body. How do you do that? Give yourself unconditional permission to eat what your body wants and explore food from a neutral standpoint. You may be thinking that you can’t control yourself around certain foods. Dieting teaches you … Read more
It is simple, to sum up, the concepts of honoring your hunger and intuitive eating: Eat what your body wants whenever you feel hungry. That sounds easy enough, but what if you have no clue how to feed your body because you aren’t sure what your body is asking for or when you are truly … Read more
Have you ever been told that carbs were bad for you? What about meat and fat? If you cut out everything that diet culture has claimed to be “bad”, there would be nothing left to eat. So, what do you do instead? Learn how to quit dieting for good and begin to heal your body’s … Read more
The 10 Intuitive Eating Steps These intuitive eating steps, or principles, are a basic outline for how to eat intuitively and give up dieting once and for all. Each step builds on those before it in some ways. While it’s good to know all of them, focusing on each one individually until you have a … Read more