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Ever realised that of the many dieting programs around, most of them fail to give you the power to determine your own intake? Then comes along intuitive eating which is a method that gives you full control of when to eat and to what amount.
Intuitive eating involves knowing that you should eat when you're hungry and not starving, finishing the meal when you feel full but not extremely. According to a popular book by ITribole and Resch, these are the 10 basic principles of the philosophy.
1. Reject the diet mentality
By this, you'll be removing any previous diet from your life's chase. Intuitive eating does not involve any diet and they should not be practiced under this feeding method.
2. Make peace with your food
Way too often, we find that you may be attaching wrong feelings towards food. Feelings of regret when you eat this or that. With intuitive eating, this should be trashed.
3. Honour your hunger
Under intuitive eating, if you're hungry, you should eat. This natural response is what you are meant to trust instead of starving yourself through.
4. Challenge the food police
By this principle, they mean that you should train your mind regarding your attitude towards food. You're not bad when you eat certain foods or don't eat others.
5. Know the satisfaction factor
You should be able to eat what you want and enjoy the satisfaction from it. Intuitive eating encourages one to enjoy the moment of enjoying the food.
6. Respect your fullness
In the same way you need to know and eat when hungry, so should you know to stop when full. Respect your body not to over eat.
7. Honour your feelings without using food
You should learn to avoid any form of emotional eating. Most people eat as an action to deal with a certain emotion which should be detached.
8. Exercise
Shift the focus from losing tons of weight to actually exercising so that you feel good about yourself and be energized.
9. Respect your body
Instead of bashing your body, embrace it and love it. This way you'll eat and care for it well.
10. Honour your health
Know that a meal won't break you, and that you need to eat with the knowledge of what's good for you. Making those decisions yourself.
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