Happy Wednesday! How is your week going so far?
I have been loving the sunny days lately, fall cooking/baking, and crisper (but not too cold) temps.
Today I’m posting a day-in-the-life recap post full of delicious eats from an intuitive eating perspective!
To review, intuitive eating is a framework of eating designed to guide you in re-learning how to tune into your natural intuition when it comes to nourishing yourself. It is a combination of head knowledge (nutrition wisdom), listening to one’s body, tuning into what simply sounds good, and trusting one’s overall intuition when it comes to eating decisions.
The 10 principles are:
- Reject the diet mentality
- Honor your hunger
- Make peace w/ food
- Challenge the food police
- Discover the satisfaction factor
- Respect your fullness
- Cope with your emotions w/ kindness
- Movement – feel the difference
- Respect your body
- Honor your health w/ gentle nutrition
I don’t necessarily think about these principles formally in my head when I go about the day eating, but they do represent a lot of my natural/intuitive ways for navigating my own food decisions. I find the principles to be help to introduce to clients who are working through a disordered relationship with food and all the conflicting messages society tells us about what/when/how to eat.
On to an eats-focused day in the life post! As always, the heart behind these posts is to show an example of what it might look like to navigate food throughout the day from a more natural, intuitive, non-disordered perspective. What/when/how much to eat is always individualized and your eating choices and patterns probably look a lot different from mine!
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