Intuitive Eating Vs. Calorie Counting
A question was posed on if you can combine both intuitive eating and calorie counting to help you lose weight or if you would do them seperately. The answer really isn't an easy one because it's both. The intuitive eating process is a combination of 10 steps (kind of like in AA) that once you master them should result in changed eating habits that you will carry for a lifetime and not have to worry about the day to day watching of calories.
A question was posed on if you can combine both intuitive eating and calorie counting to help you lose weight or if you would do them seperately. The answer really isn't an easy one because it's both. The intuitive eating process is a combination of 10 steps (kind of like in AA) that once you master them should result in changed eating habits that you will carry for a lifetime and not have to worry about the day to day watching of calories.
These steps are:
1. Reject the Diet Mentality
2. Honor Your Hunger
3. Make Peace with Food
4. Challenge the Food Police
5. Feel Your Fullness
6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor
7. Cope with your Emotions without Using Food
8. Respect Your Body
9. Exercise-Feel the Difference
10. Honor Your Health-Gentle Nutrition
In all reality these steps may take months to years (yes years!) to master. So in the meantime it really is important to be at least subconsciously aware of what you are putting in your body and what you are burning off. The common question during the process is "If I let myself eat whatever I want, won't I eat uncontrollably and gain lots of weight and be unhealthy?". The Answer: "When you have made complete peace with food and know what you like will always be available to you, you'll be able to stop eating after a moderate amount" The authors of the book have found " in case after case, that giving yourself permission to eat whatever you like ultimately results in a 90-10 balance of food choice. You'll find, after you have finally made peace with food, that about 90 percent of your food choices will be fairly light and nutritionally healthy and 10 percent will be play food." At this point watching calories doesn't become an issue because you have mastered the intuitive eater in yourself. It's always important though to keep the food guide pyramid in the back of your mind and continue to exercise.
I hope this has helped. If people would like me to I will post in the next couple weeks some tips on how to begin and master these 10 principles, just let us know if you feel this would be beneficial to you. -Jalaine
Quotes taken from the book Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works
1. Reject the Diet Mentality
2. Honor Your Hunger
3. Make Peace with Food
4. Challenge the Food Police
5. Feel Your Fullness
6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor
7. Cope with your Emotions without Using Food
8. Respect Your Body
9. Exercise-Feel the Difference
10. Honor Your Health-Gentle Nutrition
In all reality these steps may take months to years (yes years!) to master. So in the meantime it really is important to be at least subconsciously aware of what you are putting in your body and what you are burning off. The common question during the process is "If I let myself eat whatever I want, won't I eat uncontrollably and gain lots of weight and be unhealthy?". The Answer: "When you have made complete peace with food and know what you like will always be available to you, you'll be able to stop eating after a moderate amount" The authors of the book have found " in case after case, that giving yourself permission to eat whatever you like ultimately results in a 90-10 balance of food choice. You'll find, after you have finally made peace with food, that about 90 percent of your food choices will be fairly light and nutritionally healthy and 10 percent will be play food." At this point watching calories doesn't become an issue because you have mastered the intuitive eater in yourself. It's always important though to keep the food guide pyramid in the back of your mind and continue to exercise.
I hope this has helped. If people would like me to I will post in the next couple weeks some tips on how to begin and master these 10 principles, just let us know if you feel this would be beneficial to you. -Jalaine
Quotes taken from the book Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works
Yes please Jalaine!
ReplyDeleteDitto. Yes please! By the way Lacee, your tips completely helped me with the plank exercise. I feel it in my triceps now!
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