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How to listen to your body's hunger and fullness cues
How to develop a positive relationship with food
How to trust yourself around food
Key principles of intuitive eating
- Reject the diet mentality. The diet mentality is the idea that there’s a diet out there that will work for you.
- Respond to your early signs of hunger by feeding your body.
- Food is not good or bad and you are not good or bad for what you eat or don’t eat.
- Respect your fullness. Just as your body tells you when it’s hungry, it also tells you when it’s full.
- Discover the satisfaction factor. When you make eating a pleasurable experience, you may find it takes less food to satisfy you.
- Honor your feelings without using food. Find ways that are unrelated to food to deal with your feelings.
- Respect your body, rather than criticizing your body.
- Exercise — feel the difference
- Honor your health — gentle nutrition. One meal or snack isn’t going to make or break your health.
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Intuitive eating
It is a philosophy of eating that makes you the expert of your body and its hunger signals.
Essentially, it’s the opposite of a traditional diet. It doesn’t impose guidelines about what to avoid and what or when to eat.
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Without judgment, start taking stock of your own eating behaviors and attitudes. When you eat, ask yourself if you’re experiencing physical or emotional hunger.
If it’s physical hunger, try to rank your hunger/fullness level on a scale of 1–10, from very hungry to stuffed. Aim to eat when y...
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History of intuitive eating
Some of the concepts of intuitive eating have been around at least since the early 1970s, though the term wasn’t coined until 1995.
The program was built on the principle that diets don’t work and that lifestyle changes and personal care are more important for long-term health.
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Research-based benefits
Emerging research suggests that intuitive eating is linked to healthier attitudes toward food and self-image, as well as that it can be learned through interventions.
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The basics
To eat intuitively, you may need to relearn how to trust your body. Distinguish between physical and emotional hunger:
- Physical hunger. This biological urge tells you to replenish nutrients. It builds gradually and has different signals, such as a growling stomach, fat...
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Intuitive eating: focusing on nurturing your body and allowing it to settle at a weight you can manage without food restriction or excessive exercise.
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Intuitive eating
Rejects the diet mentality, promotes giving yourself permission to eat without labeling some foods "good” and others “bad,” acknowledging when you’re eating your feelings and accepting the body you have.
Intuitive eating
It is a philosophy of eating that makes you the expert of your body and its hunger signals.
Essentially, it’s the opposite of a traditional diet. It doesn’t impose guidelines about what to avoid and what or when to eat.
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