Intuitive Eating Series Week Two: Make Peace With Food. Learn why making peace with food is an important step in Intuitive Eating and some great tools to help you practice.
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Great points.
good instructions. thanks
It’s my pleasure, glad it was helpful.
What if your forbidden food makes you breakout? Should you eat it if your body reacts in a bad way?
+Brianna Olivares the intention with intuitive eating is to tune into your bodies signals (instead of your brain). If a food makes you break out that may be your bodies way of communicating that this particular food doesn’t work for it.
This is different then creating food rules in your brain. Does that make sense?
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Glad for this video, thank you food is my friendenemy
I liked this week. I find myself eating just to eat and not enjoying my food. I need to learn how to enjoy it
YESS!! Start with just one meal and eat with awareness. Eat food you love and that makes you feel good, sit down, chew, maybe use a beautiful plate…. receive all the pleasure and nourishment that food has to offer.
This philosophy is so interesting. I think it has a lot to do with self trust, at least for me. I’ve allways thought that I needed the rules to not spiral out of control, and as I practice tuning in to my body I am actually honestly susprised to find some little piece of natural instinct there. Apparently I can put more trust in my body than I have dared before, so I will definitely keep practicing.
Also, your eye makeup is gorgeous!
It has everything to do with self trust and trusting the body. We live in a faster, bigger, better kind of world and so much of our attention is pulled outward. As we begin to tune in, we find there is a lot of wisdom within.
That is what scares me I guess I don’t trust myself.
I find in general with eating as with most things in life that success beget success and failure beget failure. There is a fine line between intuition and desire. One ultimately has to decide between immediate self gratification and long term goals. Nature dictates in all animals self gratification trumps long term rewards. If this were not true the planet would be a lot less populated if you know what I mean. Freewill it is a… well you know. Love your videos!
Hormones drive behavior. Refined carbs and sugar is driving insulin is driving fat. Quitting addictive foods is like quitting smoking. How you choose to do that is a personal choice. But if you go long enough the cravings will stop. But if you mess with these foods it’s like bumming smokes off friends. Next thing you know your smoking again.
Not to mention our gut bacteria changes depending on what we eat, and there have been recent studies showing that our gut bacteria is sending signals to our brain on what to crave. If you typically eat sugar, your gut bacteria craves more sugary foods and makes your brain a slave to what it wants. They’ve shown that if you take a few weeks to ‘suffer’ through changing the types of foods you eat, your gut flora changes & thus your cravings do also. Then again… there are also articles on how ‘gut flora’ is a crock of bull, so. LOL – you never know.
That’s not always true… there are plenty of people who cant eat bread + pasta + and sweets in moderation. I’m not saying this approach is for everyone, but taking an all-or-nothing approach can backfire as well. #differentstrokesfordifferentfolks
Fake chemical foods fried in industrial lubricants ie a donut IS a wrong food. It’s literally poison for human.
Perhaps – but ultimately, the poison is in the dose. So it’s all relative.
This is interesting and I would add to it by learning about food and understanding what it’s made of and how it impacts your body not just immediately but in the long run. There are things on my “do not eat” simply because I know I will not gain any kind of benefit at all and I see it pointless to consume it. I think it helps to know ingredients and benefits.
I am reading the book and watching your videos. Thank you for doing this. I really appreciate it. I have a few questions—I have been eating very clean and health conscious for a few years (this is how I found your videos). So, I find that those foods that aren’t clean I have labeled in my mind as unhealthy and bad. I’m having a hard time letting go of this, as I do believe that some foods are better for us than others. I’m assuming you believe this too, or you wouldn’t always be cooking recipes that are clean. I also have PCOS, which means my body (and now my mind) doesn’t respond well to carbs and sugar… this is why I started eating clean a few years ago. I pretty much gave up all refined sugar (which once again my mind labels as bad and addictive) and limit my carb intake. So, I’m finding I have some resistance with letting go of my judgment of some foods as unhealthy and therefor bad for me and my body. I’m interested in your thoughts on this. On another note, before I got this book, I finished reading Mindful Eating by Jan Chozen Bays, and I LOVED it. Totally changed how I thought about eating. (I’m also a yoga instructor, so the mindfulness practices around food were right up my alley). You might want to check it out, if you haven’t already. There is some overlap with this book, too. Peace & Light, Leslie
Here is how I have come to think about it. … some foods have more vitamins and minerals, some have more nutrients and antioxidants, some are more processed – some are less, some grown from the earth, some come from animals etc – BUT we don’t have to judge them as good/bad, right/wrong. I find, for ME, it’s more helpful to notice how any one food FEELS in my body. Does it work for me or does it not.
The problem with judging the food as ‘good or bad’ is that we then make or selves good or bad when we eat them. IF you don’t get caught up in this type of self judgement, then any label that works for you, works. Make sense?
I found that when I was super stuck in diet mode, focusing on higher quality foods helped me SO much (aka whole, unrefined foods as close to natural state as possible – most of the time). That’s how I came into ‘ Clean’ Eating. It just shifted my focus back to having fun with food because I was no longer always thinking about what I needed to eliminate. Instead I was finding lots of new foods to incorporate.
If you find there are foods that don’t work well for your body, that is the kind of feedback we are looking for. Someone may choose not to eat sugar or wheat or dairy after noticing that they don’t feel great when they eat it. This doesn’t have to mean the food is bad…it may work for some one else, it just doesn’t work for you.
I hope that helps! And thanks for the book recommendation. I’ll be sure to check it out.
Hi Dani, first of all thank you for all of your videos, I absolutely love your recipes and your food for thought videos are very interesting. I’ve always struggled with food, I’m doing better now since a couple of years, but I’m still kind of obsessed with food that I shouldn’t eat and when I do I feel guilty. But I can’t help it, even if it doesn’t make me feel good after (in my body and my mind) I love food so much and particularly this kind of food that I don’t “allow” myself to eat usually, I eat it still pretty often. Your advices on this video are good but first I don’t see how I can just erase those restrictions from my head after all those years and second if I just let myself go and eat what I want that won’t be good haha! So how can we allow ourselves to eat what we want and still be reasonnable? I’ll try the exercise that you gave but I know myself and I don’t think it would change anything… And same question on self- acceptance, I try really hard to like myself as I am but I can’t, I’m obsessed with my body and how it’s not good enough for me…
Hi Marion… the more we restrict a food, the more we set ourselves up to overeat it… it is the restriction that starts the cycle, so without the restriction that food doesn’t have the same charge, make sense?
Eating what we want starts wit ha practice of awareness when you are eating. Really noticing, how the food tastes, the smell the texture… how it feels in your body, how much you enjoy it etc. When we are allowed to eat what we want when we want it, the food doesn’t hold so much power.
I recommend trying the exercise with an open mind, several times. Observe yourself. Be open to learning more about yourself.
Self acceptance is a whole other conversation for sure, but it does start with knowing that you get to make the decisions around what make you acceptable. Start by voting for yourself, realize your worth beyond just your body. We live in a culture that short changes us into believing that a women worth is in her looks but we are so much more. STOP reading magazines and books or articles or commercials that sell us this lie and make a conscious effort to read about women from our history who contributed to this world regardless of what their bodies looked like.
I’m sure the great women of history were not sitting around counting carbs…lol/
Shift your focus. Yes, this takes work, but its work worth doing. Write lists of things you are grateful for. Write lists of things you are good at. Write lists of your strengths. Look for it and create a new story. XXOO
I have my Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling where I specialized in Cognitive Behavioral techniques. I say this not to boast but to agree with you how important self-talk is in making healthy choices. Our psyche is designed that as soon as we say we can’t have something we do desire it more and we get into a battle in our minds as if some fight for life mechanisms have kicked in. Once we see that all foods are acceptable we free up our ability to make healthier and more beneficial choices. This is solid science based stuff you’re talking about. What I find refreshing is you don’t go into extremism and you recognize that not everything will work for everyone. Great video!
I eat keto, but I found that the longer I do it (1 year July 1), the more I want keto foods.
Thanks Dani for the information