What's your eating personality? by Jalaine

One of my favorite books ever is-- Intuitive Eating.

It’s a great book that introduces you to a new way of looking at food and dieting. It basically teaches you how to re-learn how to listen to your body’s hunger, fullness and craving signal’s and step away from chronic dieting. In the following weeks I will be going over in detail each of the types of eating personalities and then how to become an intuitive eater. But to begin with here are the personalities in a nut shell. Which one are you?

The Careful Eater
Eating Style: Anguishes over every morsel of food allowed into the body. Grocery trips spent scrutinizing
the food labels. Interrogation of waiter when eating out. Most of his or her’s waking hours are spent planning the next meal or snack. Appear the be the perfect eaters-very health conscious. Make choices based on health.
The Problem : There’s nothing wrong with being a careful eater and showing interest in your well being. The problem occurs when diligent eating (almost bordering on militant) affects a healthy relationship with food and ultimately negatively impacts the body.

The Professional Dieter
Eating Style: Perpetually dieting. Usually have tried the latest commercial diet, diet book, or new weight loss gimmick. Dieting takes form of fasting or cutting back. Know A LOT about food portions, calories and “dieting tricks”. Most now a days are well versed in carbohydrates. Make eating choices for the sake of losing weight, not necessarily health. Usually if not on a diet they are planning their next diet. Hope that it will be a good day.
Problem: Hard to live like this. Yo-yo dieting makes it increasingly harder to lose weight because your metabolism slow down.

The Unconscious Eater

Often engages in paired eating. Numerous Subtypes of the Unconscious Eater

The Chaotic Unconscious Eater: Often lives an over scheduled life, too busy, too many things to do. Eating style is haphazard. Whatever is available will grab- vending machines, fast food, etc. Nutrition and diet not important at the critical moment. Find it difficult to identify their biological hunger.

The Refuse- Not Unconscious Eater:Vulnerable to the mere presence of food, regardless of hunger. Usually not aware they are eating or how much they are eating. Social outing usually revolve around food.

The Waste- Not Unconscious Eater:Values the food dollar. Eating drive is influenced by getting as much as you can for the money. Especially inclined to clean their plate, as well as others.

The Emotional Unconscious Eater: Uses food to cope with emotions, especially uncomfortable emotions such as stress, anger and loneliness. View their eating as the problem when it’s often a symptom of
a deeper issue. Behaviors can range from grabbing a candy bar to chronic compulsive binges of vast quantities of food.

Problems:Unconscious eating in its various forms is a problem if it results in chronic overeating (which can
easily occur when you are not aware of it). Keep in mind that somewhere between the first and last bit of food is where the lapse of consciousness takes place. As in, “ Oh, it’s all gone!” In some cases it can exist at such an intense level that the person is not aware of what is being eaten, why he started eating, or even how the food tastes.

Intuitive Eater

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma. Toddlers are a great example of intuitive eaters. Honors hunger, respects fullness, and enjoys the pleasure of eating.

Problem: Nothing is wrong with this type of eating.