Asking oneself "is this an act of self love?" when deciding whether to eat something has been helping a lot. I've made some great progress lately (largely thanks to your videos!), and the answer to this question looks different on different days. Sometimes self love means eating a healthy meal when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm full, sometimes it means waiting another hour for dinner even though I'd like a snack now, and sometimes it means having a bowl of ice cream even though I'm not hungry at all. Trusting myself to make the right decision for me, rather than relying on rules I've set for myself, has been life-changing.
After learning so much about eating disorders and intuitive eating, to me it boiled down to this: Intuitive eating is being in sync with your body and making the best choice that's possible at any given moment. Giving nourishment, eating or not eating, having not so nutritious foods or not having them. Going just one day at a time and not thinking about it too much (not obsessing over the "right" decision). It's learning about your body and what makes you feel good rather than what is labelled as good or bad.
Considering that a lot of people who are drawn to intuitive eating are those that struggle with disordered eating, yo yo dieting, binge eating etc, promoting intuitive eating for weight loss can make the problem worse in my experience. While it’s true that dieting can promote weight gain and a healthy relationship with food can therefore lead to weight loss over time, the ironic thing is that it’s really hard to develop a healthy relationship with food and use weight as a measure of progress at the same time. Even more so if the desire for weight loss is coming from a place of negative body image and not health reasons (the lesson I made in the description explains why this is). Telling someone that they can definitely have a healthy relationship with food and weight loss at the same time is definitely going to ‘sell’ but I think this is either very ignorant or unethical practice if I’m honest and at the very least counter productive in gaining genuine food freedom.
Hi,in ed recovery with no Hunger cues and craving no food its impossible....im stuck in quasi recovery by years because normal bmi 21 now but hipotalamic amenorrea hipotiroidism and ed behaviours.... because normal bmi but exercise everyday and eating max 2300 cal day count calories because no Hunger cues i scared its to late for me45 years old😢anyway thank you sooo much and ciao from Roma
Asking oneself "is this an act of self love?" when deciding whether to eat something has been helping a lot. I've made some great progress lately (largely thanks to your videos!), and the answer to this question looks different on different days. Sometimes self love means eating a healthy meal when I'm hungry and stopping when I'm full, sometimes it means waiting another hour for dinner even though I'd like a snack now, and sometimes it means having a bowl of ice cream even though I'm not hungry at all. Trusting myself to make the right decision for me, rather than relying on rules I've set for myself, has been life-changing.
After learning so much about eating disorders and intuitive eating, to me it boiled down to this: Intuitive eating is being in sync with your body and making the best choice that's possible at any given moment. Giving nourishment, eating or not eating, having not so nutritious foods or not having them. Going just one day at a time and not thinking about it too much (not obsessing over the "right" decision). It's learning about your body and what makes you feel good rather than what is labelled as good or bad.
There are a lot of people pushing intuitive eating as a way to lose weight
Considering that a lot of people who are drawn to intuitive eating are those that struggle with disordered eating, yo yo dieting, binge eating etc, promoting intuitive eating for weight loss can make the problem worse in my experience.
While it’s true that dieting can promote weight gain and a healthy relationship with food can therefore lead to weight loss over time, the ironic thing is that it’s really hard to develop a healthy relationship with food and use weight as a measure of progress at the same time. Even more so if the desire for weight loss is coming from a place of negative body image and not health reasons (the lesson I made in the description explains why this is).
Telling someone that they can definitely have a healthy relationship with food and weight loss at the same time is definitely going to ‘sell’ but I think this is either very ignorant or unethical practice if I’m honest and at the very least counter productive in gaining genuine food freedom.
Hi,in ed recovery with no Hunger cues and craving no food its impossible....im stuck in quasi recovery by years because normal bmi 21 now but hipotalamic amenorrea hipotiroidism and ed behaviours.... because normal bmi but exercise everyday and eating max 2300 cal day count calories because no Hunger cues i scared its to late for me45 years old😢anyway thank you sooo much and ciao from Roma