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Health knowledge made personal
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Health knowledge made personal
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To answer Lela regarding if there are any "tricks" to stopping after a few bites --- it's not so much "tricks", but "steps" to understanding your true hunger signals and recognizing when your satisfied as opposed to overly stuffed. I know, it sounds great, but then you think, "How can I actually put this into practice?" Like with anything else, it can't happen overnight. No one can "undo" a lifetime of overeating habits in just a few days, weeks or even months. Intuitive Eating is based on 10 main principles: 1) Reject the diet mentality; 2) Honor your hunger; 3) Make peace with food; 4)Challenge the food police; 5) Respect your fullness; 6) Discover the satisfaction factor; 7) Honor your feelings without using food; 8) Respect your body; 9) Exercise - feel the difference; 10) Honor your health. Each chapter of the Intuitive Eating book guides you through how to achieve each principle. And there's more information on their website as well: http://www.intuitiveeating.com/
All of this takes time, commitment and perseverance. But I think the pay off in the end is having peace with food, your body - and that's 100x better than the pay off we get from all the "quick fixes" out there!
Thanks guys alot of good reads.
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Intuitive Eating
Posted by Alison Barkman, MS, RD
For everyone struggling with chronic dieting, I urge you to consider the "intuitive eating" concept. I'm currently writing my Masters thesis on this topic. Two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, wrote Intuitive Eating, a wonderful book providing guidance on how to break free from the lose weight/gain weight cycle. As a dietitian, I'm trying to put this into practice with clients. We spend a lot of time saying we're "bad" if we didn't lose weight, or we "can't eat this, can't eat that". Why not learn how to eat everything in moderation and fit the foods you love into a healthy eating lifestyle? If you're thinking of going on another diet, think about your track record with diets. You lose weight, feel good for some time, start eating foods you've restricted again, the weight creeps back on and the cycle starts all over again. Consider a "non-diet" approach to being healthy. Take a look at their website for more information.