10 Principles of Intuitive Eating That May Change Your Perspective
What exactly is intuitive eating? Most people don’t know what it is or are familiar with it in any way.
Intuitive eating is an evidence-based eating framework that involves elements of psychology, behavior change, self-awareness, intuition and instinct. It is a combination of these things.
At its core, intuitive eating is a way of tuning into, and connecting with your body and your unique needs, in a way that you are learning to trust your body and the biological signals that we receive every day — such as hunger levels and fullness. This also includes weight.
There are many psychological, mental, emotional and physical benefits to eating intuitively. Things like improving your self-esteem, your body image, reducing anxiety and depression, helping to reduce eating disorders and, in some cases, reducing obesity. Overall, it improves quality of life.
There are 10 principles which cultivate our awareness of our bodies and the signals it is sending us:
- Reject the Diet Mentality. We are inundated all of the time with diets, quick fixes, eat this, don’t eat that and countless weight loss plans. We need to let go of all of these rules we feel the need to adhere to ,and make us feel like a failure when we “fall off the wagon”. On the…
