Imagine living free from dieting and knowing that just by listening to your body you can achieve your health goals? No counting calories, no restrictive eating, no need for “cheat days” and not feeling guilty about food.
You may have heard about the non-diet approach of ‘intuitive eating’ but what exactly is intuitive eating and how can it help you to achieve your health goals?
In its simplicity, intuitive eating is listening to your body. This means to become aware of its signals that can tell you what to eat, when to eat and how much to eat. You are born an intuitive eater where as a newborn you eat when you are hungry and you stop when you are full. As we grow into children we then fluctuate our eating according to our energy needs. We don’t follow restrictive meal plans or eat to a clock.
When you become an intuitive eater, you tune into your body, eat when you are hungry and respect when you are full. You begin to learn what foods leave you feeling your best by listening to how it responds and how much your body needs each day based on its energy needs. By doing so your body naturally finds its balance, in health and in weight. You are left feeling energetic, healthy and happy.
Imagine that? Living freely to enjoy foods, without ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods and still reaching your goals.
Why is it beneficial?
Intuitive eating helps you to reconnect to your body’s most natural way of eating, returning to your innate ways of nourishing it. It encourages you to let go of the dieting mentality and instead to turn inwards to find your body’s unique needs and help you to find freedom with food.
If you have ever subscribed to diets that haven’t lasted long-term or you’ve followed a diet where you’ve felt deprived, restricted or have found yourself on the diet merry-go-round, learning how to reconnect with your body through intuitive eating can help you heal your relationship with food and learn how to nourish it naturally.
Listening to and respecting your body’s cues can have many heath benefits including improved energy levels, happier hormones, better moods, improved gut health, finding your body's natural weight and more.
Why it works
Intuitive eating requires no rules, restrictions or intense dieting but rather an approach for life that produces results that last. With intuitive eating you don't need a list or meal plan to tell you what, when and how much you can eat. It leaves you feeling empowered to make food choices that love your body back.
When we deprive ourselves of food, count calories or follow restrictive diets we can get caught in a trap of dieting. This leads to an unhealthy or negative relationship with food which can keep us feeling trapped like we can never achieve our goals without being on a diet. Intuitive eating works because it will help you discover a life-long positive relationship with food. When you respect what your body already knows, listening and learning to trust yourself, you will find your healthy balance.
By tuning in, you learn what works for your unique body, regardless of food trends, the latest fads and what everyone else is doing. Bottom line, it is the most sustainable way of living a healthy life you love and enjoy.
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About The Author
Casey-Lee Lyons is a naturopath, nutritionist, recipe developer and founder of Live Love Nourish, a refreshing online wellness resource for living your healthiest and best self. She is passionate about inspiring health and happiness through easy-to-understand nutritional and lifestyle advice and loves to share simple real food recipes free from gluten, dairy and sugar.
Casey-Lee's refreshing approach to nutrition has helped many people improve their health, increase energy, find their natural weight, improve gut and digestive health, balance hormones, heal cravings and more via her website, recipe books and the Live Love Nourish signature Online Nutrition Program - Nourish From The Inside Out. Her mission is to educate and inspire others to love and nourish their body from the inside out to achieve health and happiness.
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