01/22/2024
🌟 Thrilled to share my love for Intuitive Eating – the liberating path to disconnect from diet culture! 🍽️💕 Embrace a guilt-free, joyful relationship with food by trusting your body's signals. Curious? It's all about honoring hunger, fullness, and enjoying every delicious moment! ✨ Ready for a journey to true food freedom? Read on to learn what it’s about 📖
As exciting as it is to see gain popularity, it’s also important to recognize that misrepresentations, misapplications, and misappropriations abound. Diet culture is really sneaky and is co-opting Intuitive Eating big time. This makes learning how to spot fake Intuitive Eating an incredibly valuable skill!
Here are red flags I commonly see:
* Intuitive Eating is NOT the absence of counting macros on the weekend. There is no counting macros or points with IE.
* Intuitive Eating is NOT your ‘cheat day’.
* Intuitive Eating is NOT aligned with any weight loss food plan, including keto or any program with food rules for the purpose of shrinking your body.
* Intuitive Eating is about creating a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body. It’s also about bringing joy and pleasure back to the experience of eating. It’s NOT about the pursuit of weight loss.
* Intuitive Eating is not a diet: it's a journey of learning and discovery—not pass or fail. There are no rules, just the 10 principles which are guide posts. You and only you get to decide what tastes/feels best in your body. You are the boss of you—you are in charge!
* Intuitive Eating is far more nuanced than "eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full." It's an integration of mind-body knowledge, recognizing that life gets hectic and busy at times. Sometimes, for example, your lunch break may be before you're physically hungry - that's okay! This is where your mind knowledge comes in: your body still needs nourishment before a busy afternoon.
* Intuitive Eating is Health at Every Size aligned.
I want to hear from you! What other strategies do you find helpful to spot fake Intuitive Eating?
Before you comment, please note: I’m here to share the research & the platform of Intuitive Eating, as well as cultivate a supportive IE community. I will not be co-opted by or engaged with diet culture rhetoric. Any triggering comments will be deleted including fatphobic tropes or defending a diet, aka “lifestyle”.