How Intuitive Eating Can Be Your Weight Loss Weapon

byAlexis Joseph, MS, RD, LD
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How Intuitive Eating Can Be Your Weight Loss Weapon

There’s a new way of eating in town and it’s rooted in self-compassion, not self-control.Intuitive eating是一种新方法,试图通过尊重身体的饥饿信号而不是依靠限制来保持健康快乐的体重。

The easiest way to imagine what this feels like is to think back to how you ate when you were very young. You had a few different foods on your plate, and you simply ate what sounded tasty. If you weren’t hungry, you’d probably have no interest in eating. If you weren’t in the mood for bread or broccoli or kale or eggs or cookies, you’d push them aside. If you were hungry, you would eat. You didn’t over- or under-nourish yourself. All you knew was how to listen to your inner hunger and fullness cues.


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What eating this waydoesn’tmean is eating whatever you want whenever you want. Well, sort of. One of the pillars of intuitive eating is giving yourself unconditional permission to eat all foods in order to break free from the restriction and subsequent overeating cycle. This means making peace with the foods you banished for years. When you fully allow yourself to experience these foods, you learn to enjoy them in sensible amounts because the sex appeal of “forbidden food” has faded. It means enjoying a cookie after dinner without feeling the need to run it off tomorrow. It means not ordering the kale salad with dressing on the side when you really want the chicken sandwich.

感到满意而感到满意

感觉饱满和感到满足之间有很大的区别。一顿饭后,是否曾经离开餐厅,然后猛击剩下的披萨?您的饮食心态告诉您做出一个非常不满意的晚餐决定,现在,如果您首先订购了身体想要的东西,那么您的饮食要比您要多得多。

You may think that if you ate intuitively, you’d eat brownies with ice cream and pepperoni pizza on the side every day. Will you eat more of those foods in the initial phase? Yes. You’ll consume those foods until they feel less illegal and scary. Until they feel安全的。But rest assured that your body truly will not want cookies, cake, pizza and fried foodallthe time. It’s the complete absence of these foods (or whatever foods you happen to crave) that leads to the inevitable seesaw of binging and restricting.


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像您会查看任何其他身体功能一样查看饥饿感,而您honorit. Treat being hungry like having to sneeze, urinate, breathe or sleep. You need to consume food for energy to sustain life just like you need to breathe air. Would you get mad at yourself for needing to use the restroom? It’s as basic a need as eating is.

You also honor your health. Just like you care about satisfying your taste buds, you care about nourishing your body. You honor your health not so you can fit into a jean size you haven’t worn since high school, but rather to live a long and happy life, to ward off disease and to simply feelgood每天。它不会在一夜之间发生,但是我们都知道没有什么好容易。如果您一直在节食一生而没有成功,请记住,这不是youthat doesn’t work. It’s dieting. Imagine the things you could do with your time if your brain isn’t so busy with micromanaging your weight and self-worth. Challenge the status quo and embrace progress, not perfection.

About the Author

Alexis Joseph, MS, RD, LD

Alexis is a nationally recognized nutritionist and media personality specializing in nutrition communications and intuitive eating. She foundedHummusapien, a multi-faceted food, wellness, and lifestyle website in 2011 and co-foundedAlchemy Juice Bar + Cafe2014年在俄亥俄州哥伦布市。Alexis还担任食品品牌和商品委员会的作家,演讲者和营养顾问。

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