Having read up about Making Peace with Food, I have embarked this week on the workbook reading and exercises, which I found easier to follow than the main book. Particularly the explanation around habituation where dieting stops us from having the effect of being comfortable around some foods which can result in bingeing. It was …
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So now we have covered Principle One – Reject Diet Mentality and Two – Honour your Hunger, we are onto Principle Three – Make Peace with food! Intuitive Eating is certainly proving to be an interesting and empowering journey for me so far, and I am keen to keep learning and exploring more. As ever, …
So it has been over a week since I learnt more about Principle 2, Honour your Hunger (or Honor if you are from North America!) as part of my Intuitive Eating journey. I am enjoying the process so far and finding that reading the books, doing the exercises and trying to at least think about …
As I continue my journey into Intuitive Eating, this week I am learning about Principle 2, Honour (honor in the book) your hunger (Principle 1 was ‘Reject Diets‘). Honour your hunger – again this sounds pretty simple, as was rejecting diets, but easier said than done. After years of western conditioning and even more so …
I am in the early stages of my Intuitive Eating journey (more in this earlier post), I have obviously read and reflected on the first principle: rejecting diet culture. I am taking some time out to reflect each day about where I have witnessed diet culture in society and myself and how I may be …
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At the start of the year I set the intention to listen to my body more. I spend a lot of time in my mind (as most of us do), but wanted to start really listening to me. Listening to what I wanted and needed, rather than my kids or anyone else – whether it …
Please don’t let the title put you off! I know everyone has had their fill of articles on weight loss, diets, fads, exercise routines, I don’t think I need to go on. And I know I have certainly had enough of the whole ‘perfect body’ culture, that anyone is less than if they don’t conform …
Last week I received the following message from our new neighbours: “Would you like to come over for a wine (or some beer)?” This might seem like a totally innocuous question. Normal even. But it left me feeling quite angry. Why? You might ask. Because drinking is so acceptable, ‘normal’ in our culture, that anything …
I don’t know about you, but I have noticed that most of the time I am living up in my head. In other words focusing on doing, planning, ruminating and sometimes not being really present when my kids or partner are talking with me. It is actually not a nice feeling. Pretty numb. Feels like …