Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Intuitive eating is not so popular
2:00 PM Posted by Joylene GreenLabels: counseling, stuff about eating
Intuitive eating is not popular. I think this is for a number of reasons:
1. We have all been brainwashed to think that we all need to diet (it's all over the media).
2. We have learned to distrust ourselves with food - so we think we have to institute strict rules about what we do and don't eat.
3. It's easier to start a new diet that tells you exactly what you can and can't do. It is much more difficult and time consuming to address the issues related to emotional eating and the pain that is often behind it - and take the time to re-learn how to listen to your body.
Yet, intuitive eating works. Research done on intuitive eating found that in general, high intuitive eating scores were associated with an
increase in the enjoyment and pleasure of food,
lower bmi scores, and
fewer dieting behaviors and food anxieties. (Smith and Hawks, 06)
I will discuss more on how to implement intuitive eating tomorrow.
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2 comments:
Hmmmm...I was wondering how this concept works when someone is a stress eater, or eats out of bordom etc. This would be interesting for you to address. Love MOM
This is somewhat addressed in principle 7. One of the things that I like most about the principles of intuitive eating is that it teaches you to distinguish between physical hunger and emotional hunger. "Mouth" hunger versus "Stomach" hunger. If that makes sense.
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