How To Lose Weight With Intuitive Eating: 4 Quick Tips
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| How To Lose Weight With Intuitive Eating: 4 Quick Tips |
Confused?
Frustrated? Fed up? Do you feel bewildered after trying diet after diet and
never being able to keep the weight off? In fact, if you’re like most people,
you eventually ended up gaining all your weight back plus a few extra instead
of losing.
Do
you notice that there are no diet fads currently sweeping the market? There’s a
simple reason. After over 100 years of dieting, it’s finally clear that all
that effort, deprivation, planning, and starvation has only made the American
public fatter. In fact, 95% of dieters gain back all their weight within 1-5
years. Diets don’t work.
What
does work is honoring and listening to your body.
Before
you go on yet another diet consider looking to the natural wisdom of your body.
The irony is that we each have the perfect, free, built-in diet available to us
right here and now. It's called listening to your body and it's simple.
There
are just a few simple things to learn:
1) What you resist persists. The most
essential step is to love and accept your body as it is right now. If you’re
reading this article, you are probably carrying a some extra pounds. That’s a
common result of dieting. But most people were born to be of normal weight.
You, too! Treat your body well and meet its needs and you will find you return
to your own ideal weight easily and naturally.
2) Listen to your body. Treat your body with gentleness and tender,
loving care by eating when you feel physically hungry and stopping when you are
full. Overeating is usually a form of diet backlash that results from
starvation and deprivation. It’s the body’s survival mechanism in action to
save your life from the famine it experienced. Try eating small, frequent
amounts with the intention of feeling light and refreshed from eating rather
than heavy and stuffed.
3) Choose to eat what you really want in
each moment, not what you think you should have or what would make you “good.”
As you make choices based on your body’s desires, you will find yourself eating
better foods in smaller quantities. Sensually enjoy the food you eat. Taste the
delicious flavors, enjoy the various textures. And if it isn’t tasting great,
get something better right then.
4) Play more, suffer less. Find some kind
of movement that makes you feel like a kid again. Or take walks that feed your
soul. Make exercise something you love and look forward to instead of yet
another chore to feel guilty about skipping.
Accept
your body, meet its needs, enjoy your food, and play. Sounds better than
dieting doesn’t it? And it works better, too. If you’re looking for a real,
long-term solution to ending the battle with your weight, intuitive eating may
just be the answer you’ve been seeking.
