Repairing Your Relationship with Forced Food from Childhood
Constructing a healthy eating relationship with the food you once scorned as a child is vital in Intuitive Eating. Honoring your fullness can come from the experience of eating a portion of food that fulfills your sensation of fullness, but that does not mean you overeat.
10 Principles of Intuitive Eating Series, Principle 1: Rejecting Diet Mentality
Rejecting the diet mentality means to stop thinking about losing weight and dieting. This is a big step in your journey of intuitive eating, especially if you have been dieting for a long period of time. It is not expected of you to stop your dieting habits cold turkey, it is something that you have to ween off. Especially when it comes to counting calories, points, microproteins. Diet mentality most harshly affects those who do not fit with the stereotype that the media presents for us to look like.
What Is Intuitive Eating and Is It For Me?
Intuitive Eating is an intuitive eating practice focused on helping you find your exit ramp from diet culture and cultivate a better relationship with food and with your body. The approach builds on the wisdom of Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole (both experienced dietitians) who wrote the book called Intuitive Eating. This process is an avenue to regain the healthy relationship with food we all had as children. This process of reconnection is a slow one, and that is intentional. It is necessary to go at your own pace, this isn’t a “program” to complete. Unlearning diet culture will take some patience, there is no rush.