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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
The food police monitor the unreasonable rules that diet culture has created. The police station is housed deep in your psyche, and its loudspeaker shouts negative barbs, hopeless phrases, and guilt-provoking indictments.
Chasing the food police away is a critical step in returning to Intuitive Eating.
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In our compulsion to comply with diet culture, we often overlook one of the most basic gifts of existence—the pleasure and satisfaction that can be found in the eating experience.
When you eat what you really want, in an environment that is inviting, the pleasure you d...
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Accept your genetic blueprint. Just as a person with a shoe size of eight would not expect to realistically squeeze into a size six, it is equally futile (and uncomfortable) to have a similar expectation about body size.
But mostly, respect your body so you can feel better about who you ar...
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Keep your body biologically fed with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to overeat.
Once you reach the moment of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological sig...
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In order to honor your fullness, you need to trust that you will give yourself the foods that you desire.
Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you’re comfortably full. Pause in the middle of eating and ask yourself h...
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Give yourself unconditional permission to eat. If you tell yourself that you can’t or shouldn’t have a particular food, it can lead to intense feelings of deprivation that build into uncontrollable cravings and, often, bingeing.
When you finally “give in” to your forbidden foods, eatin...
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Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds while making you feel good. Remember that you don’t have to eat perfectly to be healthy.
You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency or become unhealthy, from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It’s what you eat consis...
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Forget militant exercise. Just get active and feel the difference. Shift your focus to how it feels to move your body, rather than the calorie-burning effect of exercise.
If you focus on how you feel from working out, such as energized, it can make the difference between r...
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The “food police” are those voices in your head that tell you it’s good to eat fewer calories and it’s bad to eat dessert. The food police can be real people too.
“Chasing them away” is an important step in embracing intuitive eating.
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