I love butter, I love cheese, I love crème
brulee! Without
these foods my life would not be so rich or satisfying. Lysa and I
wholeheartedly know and believe that food is not only meant to
provide nutrition
for our bodies, but pleasure as well. That’s why it tastes so darn
good! We
also know that it is possible to eat all foods, lose weight and
stay slim.
The third principle to Intuitive Eating is
about allowing
yourself permission to eat and enjoy all foods. It’s about being
guided by your
inner wisdom to know what you truly need in the moment. When you
eat the food
your body truly wants you stop feeling deprived, instead you feel
empowered and
satisfied. Many of our clients tell us when they start practicing
this
principle that they stop obsessing about food, about whether they
are making
the ‘right’ choice, whether they are ‘good or bad’ that day. In
reality food is
just food; we are the ones who turn it into the enemy when we try to restrict ourselves. Making food the enemy only leads to eating in secret, and or binge eating.
When teaching this principle we commonly hear,
“But I’ll
just eat junk food all the time if I’m allowed to eat anything!”
As you begin
to practice and truly listen intuitively to your body it will
guide you to want
a wide variety of foods. We’ve had a client not eat vegetables for
6 weeks
because she’d been forcing herself to eat them everyday to lose
weight. After 6 weeks what
do you think she craved? Yep,
vegetables!
Yes we’re telling you to let go of the ‘dieting
rules’ about
good and bad foods, healthy and unhealthy foods. This will take
some practice,
as do all three principles. Learning to eat intuitively will
require you to
place more awareness on what your body feels and less on what your
mind or
others tell you to do.
Eating cottage cheese, half a grapefruit or
tasteless cereal
for breakfast and obsessing over what I should eat all day are
thankfully
distant memories for me these days. To choose between eating what
others tell me
I should or eating what, when and how my body tells me to is a no
brainer for
me.
Which would you rather choose?
For more information about Lysa & Gina’s Approach – “The Weigh to
Freedom” visit
www.lysaandgina.co.nz
Eating intuitively is pure joy and freedom.
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