Ten years ago I was training to become a Dietitian, at the same time I was struggling to shift 10kg. Dieting or starving myself one day, binge eating and gorging the next, I was trapped in an emotional and physical battle with my mind and my body. What I wanted more than anything was to be normal, like my size 8 girlfriend who seemed to eat whatever she wanted and still stay slim. I was convinced being slim would make me happy; I desperately envied my tiny friend who I thought had it all.
Four years at University taught me weight
loss is about calories in versus calories out. The scientific
bottom line….if
you use up more calories in a day than you consume, weight loss is
the result. What could be
simpler? Yet, in practice what I couldn’t seem to master was how
to make
that actually happen, let alone sustain it long-term!
I was many years older and a good 10kg’s
lighter before I came
to understand that there is a way of eating (known to my naturally
slim girlfriend)
that is simple, sustainable and just makes sense! This I now know
is called ‘Intuitive
Eating’.
So what is Intuitive Eating?
It’s becoming attuned to our bodies natural
hunger and
satiety signals to know what, when and how much to eat. It's a
process that helps create a healthy relationship with food, mind
and body.
We
are all born
with the ability to discern the physical signs of hunger and
satiety that will
guide us to know how to attain and maintain a normal, healthy
weight. Many of us, particularly if we struggle with excess
weight, have lost this natural ability to be
self-guided around food and eating because we have been taught to
look outside
ourselves for the answers.
We want you to know that dieting and
struggling with your
weight can be a distant memory, as it is now for us.
Intuitive Eating is a big part
of the solution and yet our world paradigm remains locked in the
old, outdated
approach of dieting that teaches us using our willpower to
restrict, deprive
and override our normal natural eating cues is the answer to being
slim.
We
have dropped 40kg combined and have stay slim for 16 years. We are
passionate about helping others break free from dieting, emotional
eating and the battle with excess weight that creates a myriad of
pain in all areas of our lives. It is our vision
that soon the ‘dieting’ paradigm will be extinct and a new
paradigm will reign,
one that puts the power back in the individuals’ hands.
So how can I
learn Intuitive Eating?
We travel New Zealand teaching ‘Intuitive eating’ in work-shops, we also coach clients one on one in both New Zealand and Australia to help them discover how to apply the philosophy to create weight-loss results. At our workshops we begin by teaching 3 simple principles that will help you begin to learn to eat intuitively.
They are:
1.
Eat only when you are
physically hungry
2.
Stop eating when you are
satisfied
3.
Eat anything your body
truly wants to eat
Over the next 3 weeks we’ll explore each of
these principles
in greater depth. In the
meantime, ask
yourself ….”Am I ready to let go of the struggle with my weight
and food? “Am I
ready to trust the one person I haven’t been trusting to make
decisions about my
body and what I put into it?
(Written by Gina)
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