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How to listen to your body's hunger and fullness cues
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Pros of intuitive eating
- It acknowledges that you are an individual. The food we need is unique, and there is little chance that the latest gimmicky diet is going to be the perfect fit for your body.
- It leaves room for your needs to change over time. What our bodies want and need at age 18 is different from age 68, and may even differ from week to week.
- You will focus on being attuned to your body and how foods make you feel. .
- You will eat when you are hungry, which makes it easier to commit to.
- It acknowledges that some bodies benefit from certain foods, while they are not healthy for others.
- Intuitive eating may help yo
u maintain a healthier weight long-term. It defines “success” as progress over time.
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Intuitive eating & prioritizing recommended nutrients
Having a good understanding of your overall nutrition needs can support intuitive eating.
If you begin to eat intuitively, be sure that over time your dietary pattern includes plenty of nutrient-dense foods from all of the food groups, as well as any special nutrients that...
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Cons of intuitive eating
- It can take time to tune into your body and get the balance right. Sensing whether you are full or hungry requires tuning into your body’s signals; this can be very difficult for some people.
- Engineered foods can fool our bodies into thinking we are hungry when we are not.
- I...
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Research shows that intuitive eating has some long-term benefits for most people, but it may not be the perfect fit for you.
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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 ba...
Intuitive eating
Dietitians have recently come to the conclusion that one sure way to gain weight is to actually get obsessed over how much you eat.
On the other hand, eating intuitively, meaning how much you feel like until you are full, it will most likely result in you having enough of certain fo...
Respect your fullness
Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Intuitive eating is about understanding what foods your body feels best eating, and how to make your own food choices based on your own hunger and fullness
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