Intuitive Eating Principle 1 - Rejecting Diet Mentality — Halve Your Cake

Intuitive eating is a non-diet approach to health and wellness that helps us tune into our body signals, break the cycle of chronic dieting and heal our relationship with food.

• Intuitive eaters give themselves unconditional permission to eat whatever they want without feeling guilty.

Intuitive Eating is made up of ten core principles:

1. Reject the diet mentality
2. Honor our hunger
3. Make peace with food
4. Challenge the food police
5. Respect our fullness
6. Discover the satisfaction factor
7. Honor our feelings without using food
8. Respect our body
9. Exercise—feel the difference
10. Honor our health with gentle nutrition

• Diet mentality is a false belief that diets for weight loss create health and happiness.
• Diet mentality is the mean voice we hear over and over which categorizes food into good and bad or healthy and unhealthy.

It is the voice that tells us ridiculous rules such as “no eating after 7pm”, “no carbs after lunch”, or “no dessert because we didn’t exercise”.

Many people think this voice means they should have more control. Rather, this voice acts like a bully that keeps us from living our fullest life.