Simply, it’s eating when you’re hungry and stop eating when your full. It’s a self-care framework that promotes a safe and trusting attitude towards food and our bodies.
Intuitive Eating Principles have only been around since the 90s, however, it’s roots go as far as as the 1970s.
Women were writing about emotional eating and how women’s bodies were perceived back THEN.
Women and young girls are faced with the skewed lense of diet culture, what should be an intuitive process, often times is not.
To start eating intuitively a person needs to tell the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.
That can sometimes feel like a scary journey to start down.
However, there are 10 principles that you can follow, in any order, to start changing your mindset AND your habits.
Now that you know a little more about what Intuitive Eating actually is, look out for my next post.
February 15, 2023 in Intuitive Eating