What is Your Stomach Telling You? Intuitive Eating Explained.
Hate dieting? Then this may be the best blog post you have ever read!
If you’re one of those people who has always had trouble maintaining a healthy weight — you are most likely also one of those people who has tried every diet known to man. And yet, none of those has worked.
Maybe none of these diets have worked because they are manmade diets instead of a nature-made diet. Maybe, just maybe, we are trying too hard when the answer to a healthy weight is to LISTEN to our body.
What is Intuitive Eating?
Simply put, intuitive eating is the practice of eating mindfully and without guilt or restrictions. There is no counting of calories or restricting certain foods. It is simply a commonsense approach to eating and living well.
What?! No calorie counting and eating whatever you want? How can that possibly help a person lose and/or maintain a healthy weight?
Well, because you’re not listening to your mind but your body. Your mind can lie to you but your body always tells you the truth.
Here are some of the basic principles of intuitive eating:
It is NOT a Diet
Diets simply don’t work because they are not sustainable. So the very first principle of intuitive eating is to completely throw away the idea of dieting.
