The biggest hang up most experience when they choose to embrace Intuitive Eating is the fact that they are so pre-programed by Diet Culture the way IE is approached is from a dieting way. Diet Culture lays down rules and demands to food restrict as well as expectation that one will follow dieting's rules exactly and faithfully. Approaching Intuitive Eating this same way almost guarantees an inability to do IE.
Instead Intuitive Eating suggests (IE = no rules!) that each person begin an exploration of one's eating choices and habits. That effort is only a search for information, its not a succeed/fail undertaking. Doing that begins the process of reconnecting with one's body which results in choosing to honor that same body as it has always required.
Difficult as it can be - examining what one finds to be Diet Culture in your life - is a necessary and excellent basis for turning away from Diet Culture, then progressing towards reclaiming how one's body has always wanted to be fed as well as is its eating birth right.
Hello Everyone! I am new to the community. I found Intuitive Eating a couple days ago, and it has really resonated with me. IE has gotten me to think about the mindset that I have had for so long but didn't realize it. I am excited to be here to learn and give back as much as I can.
Hello :) I just joined the community today. I've been considering IE for several months, just hadn't made the commitment out if fear I suppose. I've always kept my weight and food struggles to myself. I hoped joining the group would help me get and give support.
The bugaboo about support is that until/unless a member posts what they need support with, others can't offer support for them.
It had long seemed to me that only a live and interactive 'meeting' (Zoom?) is able to encourage such participation. Doing IE 'solo' is very challenging.
Well here goes. I am a new member of the IE community and I recently listened to the 10 day mini course by Evelyn on YouTube. Today I bought the e-book Intuitive Eating for Every Day and the 4th edition of Intuitive Eating. Ironically, a couple of days ago I acquired yet another diet course on Diet Freedom which included an Emotional Eating Guide and a programme entitled Eating Too Much Guide. And guess what? It included a personal calorie, macro and portion guide. I am SO done with that! I shall spend the next few days reading my new books and trying hard not to think of entering macros into My Fitness Pal! And I just had a bowl of ice cream cos it's mighty hot here where I live! (I enjoyed it thoroughly!)
Welcome Marloe. After reading the IE book, you may enjoy searching You Tube for other IE videos. Do avoid any that sound diety since there are sadly too many like that. You will get the hang of it, just give it a FUN go. (when was dieting ever fun?!?)
I sort of started IE yesterday (NY day), but not really thinking about it. I enjoy my alcoholic beverages, but something clicked in me that I didn't HAVE to drink more than one. It took quite a long time for me to drink 1 bottle of beer (like 3 hours). Normally I would finish that in 15 minutes. So, maybe my brain IS starting to realize that listening to my body and it's needs makes for a much happier me? I had ordered some chicken tenders, but they just didn't taste good, so I didn't finish the order. That's a HUGE step for me. I was always required to be part of the "clean plate" club.
Such observations are very helpful as you reclaim your eating birth right! Once you (re) discover your true wants/needs, the other desires stop driving you so strongly. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
Hello. I just started today and am hopeful I can learn some valuable lessons.
Hola comunidad, soy Valentina Vieytes de Uruguay estoy feliz de formar parte de esta comunidad. Promuevo y practico la Alimentación Intuitiva, me encanta estar aquí y aprender de todos ustedes y compartir un poco mi experiencia. Un abrazo grande. GRACIAS
(using an online translator - this is that Valentina posted )
Hello community, I am Valentina Vieytes from Uruguay I am happy to be part of this community. I promote and practice intuitive food, I love being here and learning from all of you and sharing my experience a bit. A big hug. THANK YOU
Hey all 🤗 I'm Emma, I live in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom and I'm glad to have found this site☺️. I have just started working with a nutritionist who has introduced me to IE (although I did come across it a few years ago). I was feeling bereft about my weight struggles and that dieting hadn't worked. I recently had endometrial cancer and a consultant that I saw about HRT options referenced my BMI and made me feel that I caused the cancer. I was devastated and just didn't know where to turn. I feel that IE makes sense but also that it will take some shifting of my thinking..I feel conflicted and questioning if I should just be on a diet for my health but I know that I'm tired of being on that rollercoaster! Anyway, apologies for the long chapter 🤭, hope you are all well and I look forward to meeting you 😄
Welcome Emma. I can so understand how we have all been gulit-ed about our bodies!! The real shame belongs to those who demand 'prefect' adherence to EXternal objectives instead of helping us to discover and work within our own built in body needs.
IE is not a 'magic' bullet or cure-all, but it does (in my humble opinion) help us to return to honoring the body we LIVE in. Doing the best you can with what your body needs (and directs you to) is a big order, but quite do-able. I consider IE a gift that I give to myself.
Hey everyone,
I’m Collyn. I just started reading Intuitive Eating. I’m taking it slow, so I wouldn’t say I’ve really started practicing it yet. Right now, I’m just connecting with the personal stories in the book. I’m trying to make peace with my body and trust myself, but honestly, it’s not easy.
Welcome Collyn. I found it to be diet mentality to expect one's self to 'do' Intuitive Eating 'immediately'. If you can remember one thing at this point in your IE journey that is to allow yourself to embrace IE as you can. You are in Stage 1 of your journey - basically mainly observing and awareness, As you begin to see and acknowledge diet mentality in your own life, then you can slowly decide what you want and can do to 'reject' that. The IE book is like a guide book to a foreign land - you don't see ALL of that place all at once! Instead check out and enjoy the 'place' you are as you are aware of it. That way you can begin to make use of the (suggested!) IE Principles as you are willing and able.
Probably the best thing you can do at this time is to simply take note of Diet Culture (ads, family/friends talk, medical referrals etc.), then finding how YOU have created and embraced Diet Mentality withIN yourself. Slowly releasing yourself from self imposed 'diet' rules can be tough, but oh so rewarding.
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep." (Chinese proverb)
