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Intuitive Eating: How it Helps you Gain Control of Weight Issues

by Team 131 Method
August 5, 2019
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For those of us who have tried diet after diet with minimal success, it can often seem like deeper issues are at play than just what we put in our mouths. In the midst of weight loss struggles, it may be that finding the perfect diet isn’t really what we require. Rather, establishing a more balanced relationship with food could be the key to finally achieving a healthy weight. If you’d like to reclaim your sanity around food and break the cycle of dead-end diets, an approach called Intuitive Eating could be just what you need.

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Awareness

The concept of mindful eating emphasizes bringing awareness to cues of hunger and fullness, savoring food, and practicing gratitude before meals. Intuitive eating, developed by Registered Dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, is based on similar principles. However, it takes mindful eating one step further (1). Adherents are encouraged to reject the diet mentality entirely. Instead of focusing on any specific pattern of eating, intuitive eaters trust the body and mind to inform their food choices on a moment-by-moment, meal-by-meal basis.

While the official Intuitive Eating plan comprises ten major principles, it’s not too difficult to distill them down into a few essentials (2). First and foremost, Intuitive Eating means getting rid of long-ingrained “rules” around eating in favor of your body’s own innate instincts. If you’ve been trying intermittent fasting, for example, but something makes you miss a meal in your window, Intuitive Eating says, “go ahead and eat.” After all, you’re hungry, aren’t you? Hunger is meant to be satiated with food.

Hunger Cues

This attention to hunger (and fullness) plays a major role in intuitive eating. Our bodies have a remarkable way of communicating to our minds when we do and don’t require fuel. However, in a food-saturated, over-stimulated culture, it’s all too easy to lose track of these basic signals. Instead of eating at prescribed times or grabbing a donut simply because someone brought a box to work, bring intention to your consumption by checking in with your body’s level of need and true desire for food. This may look like taking a moment of quiet before reaching for a snack. Or, set reminders on your phone every few hours that ask you to assess your hunger level on a scale of one to ten. These small touch points add up to a far better grasp of your body’s actual needs.

Check-ins aren’t just for deciding when to start eating, either. They also help monitor when to stop. During a meal, if possible, Intuitive Eating means striving for small pauses here and there to take stock of your fullness.

No Labeling

Another tenet is discarding thoughts of certain foods as “good” or “bad”—and oneself as good or bad for eating them. This way of categorizing food as positive and negative leads to overwhelming temptation. Anyone who’s ever operated on the “cheat day” principle can attest that when you keep yourself from desirable foods for long enough, going overboard is inevitable when you finally allow them. When the binge occurs, self-judgment often follows. To eat intuitively, level the playing field of food by detaching emotional associations. Almost any food can be acceptable to eat sometimes, and it doesn’t have to cause guilt.

In addition to removing emotional labels from foods, Intuitive Eating explores the gamut of reasons we eat. Stop for a moment and consider the purpose of food. We eat to nourish our bodies, and to maintain health. But eating is also one of life’s greatest pleasures. Intuitive eaters understand this, and see the big picture of food as both fuel and fun.

This celebration of food’s deliciousness leads to increased savoring—a practice Intuitive Eating shares with mindful eating. When we give enjoyment of food the mental attention it deserves, we have a far more satisfying experience of eating, and tend to consume less. One way to boost your savoring is to eliminate distractions. While eating, leave your phone off the table, turn off the TV, and even try closing your eyes, if circumstances allow. You’ll quickly find that when your mind (and you taste buds) are focused on tasty flavors and appealing textures, less really is more.

Final Thoughts

While it’s not a diet, Intuitive Eating could be the solution you’ve been seeking for weight loss, or simply to bring back your sense of well-being around food. Its totally back-to-basics approach to hunger and fullness. This invitation to enjoy eating with a guilt-free mentality could bring needed freedom from long-held dieting baggage.

Inside the 131 Method, we tons of lessons on mindset and creating a better relationship with food. Throughout the 12-week program, we teach how to release the pressure or expectation of perfection.

Sources:

  1. http://www.intuitiveeating.org
  2. http://www.intuitiveeating.org/10-principles-of-intuitive-eating/

 

 

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