Intuitive Eating Series Week One: Reject The Diet Mentality. Learn why NOT dieting is the first step to having a kind and healthy relationship with food.
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Ok, my dear friends! Here we are, week one of our 10-Week Intuitive Eating Series and we are chatting about REJECTING the Diet Mentality (I LOVE this topic!). PLEASE leave any of your thoughts, questions, aha moments down in the comments below so we can help support one and other through the next 10 weeks. XO – Dani
Thank you for doing this Dani! This is wonderful!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it Audrey. Thanks for watching.
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Very much!!!! I’m a huge believer in Intuitive Eating……and this is great that you’re doing this series!!
I am miserable I am obese feel sick and breaking my body with yoyo dieting I need this
I’m so happy you are here! Be easy with yourself and slowly do the sugegsted exercises to learn more about you. #you’vegotthis XO
Intermitten fasting…look up the benefits of fasting and IF. It’s free, no one is selling anything, you can start tomorrow.
Great job, Dani! I am 71 and have been dieting since I was 8 years old. I know, even though 10 years ago I finally decided to get off that merry-go-round, I can still be enticed by the thought that I SHOULD be dieting. I almost recently fell for the keto fad, but thankfully realized I had done that many years ago with 0 success. Everything you have said I can relate to and agree with. You are a delightful woman!
Thank you Gram. I completely understand what you mean… I can also still be enticed with dieting but no longer take the bait!! I Appreciate you being here.
Thank you for doing this. I am BEYOND excited for this series! The 3 steps were so impactful for me. For me, step 2 had me jotting down notes of when “dieting” entered my world and it started as early as I can remember when I would overhear my grandmother talking about her crash diets as she struggled with her weight and struggled with her self-worth all of her adult life, which trickled down to her 3 daughters, and eventually to me, resulting in a genetic predisposition to feel the need to diet & dislike my body and my shape.
Hi Pam. Thanks for sharing this… May I suggest that you don’t have a ‘genetic predisposition’ to dieting and disliking your shape, you have a habit of ‘thinking’ in a way that promotes this. You picked up the story of your grandma and your mom and it unconsciously became yours… THE GOOD NEWS is, we are free to change our stories. Thoughts are optional and with awareness, practice, kindness, ease and forgiveness you can begin to practice a new story. XXOO
Thank you, Dani! I love your videos, your wisdom, your knowledge and passion for nutrition. I look forward to the next 9 weeks. Is there a Facebook group I could join?
I don’t have a FB group open as of now… I’ll let you know if that changes! Thaks for being here:)
I’m so glad you are doing this series! I read this book a few years ago (I’m pretty sure I have read everything out there). I am currently bouncing from TrimHealthyMama and Weight Watchers. Then the weekend hits and any “progress” vaporizes. So tired of the diets that say they are all about food freedom and then back up that claim with rules to follow.
I get it!! #DONTDIET <- That't the C&D Motto:)
I LOVE this video! I had an abusive childhood and was put on diets starting at 8. Even though i wasnt big. All my life i put my value in the number on the scale. Ive bee. A yo-yo dieter since i was little and this video is my ah ha moment. Thank you so much!
Yay! So happy that this video helped you have an aha! moment… we have 9 more to go:)
Clean & Delicious I can’t wait to learn more!
I started doing Intuitive Eating at the end of April because I was going camping for the weekend and couldn’t bring my phone (to count calories). I decided to continue not counting calories and to this day I did gain weight, but my life is so much happier and not crazy because of me trying to figure out if a food can be fit in my calorie and macro amount.
I love this Anna! There is a lot to be said for ‘food freedom + sanity’. So many of us want to reach a certain ‘look’ becausae we think it will make us happy, but all of the attempts we take make us unhappy. Can’t hate yourself thin and you can’t take a road of misery and arrive at happy. Thank you for sharing this.
I hate to be the person who is not supportive of his method but personal experience has taught me that it doesn’t work. (For those who it might work for great, but not for me.) For background – I was one of those people who dropped 200 lbs and maintained it – for 12 years. I was healthy. But, I had to manage portions, meals, etc. It was (and is) the ONLY way for me that works.
After 12 years, 3 mental health professionals decided that I was a “slave” to food, etc, because I measured my portions, maintained a meticulous diet and exercise plan, etc. They decided that I needed to do this very program and learn to “intuit” how to eat – just like everyone else. That it was all “just in my head” that were I to stop managing my meals and to just ‘listen to my body” that nothing would happen and that my maintained weight would go right on being maintained and that I would be “free.”
They only began to accept what I told them would happen – that I would gain the weight back – after I had regained 90 pounds in less than a year. You see – I never feel full, to the point of vomiting. Following my intuition and these steps just put me back on the same cycle that almost killed me from super-morbid obesity. I required bariatric surgery to get some control over food again. Those same mental health professionals have since profusely apologized for making the false assumption that underlies this program and removing me from a program that worked.
The 90 pounds is gone now, but my health – both physical and mental – is in a much worse place now for having listened to proponents of intuitive relationships with food. Why am I posting this (and I do hope you leave it up)? This program (like every ‘fad’ diet or not so fad diet like the USDA recommendations) makes a fundamentally BAD assumption – that all people are physiologically the same. That if you just “listen” you can be like your friends who eat whatever they want when they want and are healthy. We simply are not.
I am all for a healthy relationship with food. Yo-yo, crash diets, eat this magic snake oil, and the like are indeed poison. But, for some of us, that healthy relationship is micromanagement and stark regimentation. For some of us, this program is like asking a drug addict to “intuit” their drug use. Unfortunately – food isn’t something like cigarettes, alcohol, or the like, that you can put down forever. If a program like this is helpful to some people – I am all for it. However, it is definitely not for all people.
Thank you for sharing…. I don’t think anyone thing is the answer for everyone and if you find an approach that you enjoy and that works for you, I agree, you should stick with it. However, personally… I would want to understand what is driving my desire to over eat or to eat to a point of vomiting. There is some really powerful information to be learned there. Food is one thing in life that feeds us, what else is it in your life that you may be feeling hungry for?
Yes, there was another reason. Sufficient to say it had nothing to do with food or looking a particular way, but was suicidal behavior (‘slow suicide by food” as one doc put it.) However, when the reason behind it was addressed with therapy and a lot of making peace with it – the addiction remained. For me, that addiction will always be there. With regimented diet, for me at least, the addiction can be kept in check. But without the barriers to the addiction that I had to impose, the addiction will run wild for me (and like most addicts, it is so much harder to quit the second time around.)
That said, most of your viewers will never have been in the position I was of being over 400 pounds or having the particular demons I had to face. If this helps with woeful body image “norms” we see in American society and coming to terms that nothing we can eat or not eat will ever make us look like what a photographer’s airbrush and Photoshop can do – then it is a great thing.
FWIW – I do enjoy your recipes a lot. It is how I found your channel some months ago. With the restrictions I now have with fat, sugar, and food volume, they are helping me to learn to eat physically healthily again.
I just recently discovered Intuitive Eating and I’m loving it! (I’ve been binge watching all your videos) I love the freedom it brings and the awareness I’m growing to have with my body. Here’s my problem. I have adrenal fatigue and blood sugar issues. I’ve been on Keto since November which makes me feel way better. I would love to be able to let go of all diet rules and just eat, but I’m afraid of not being on Keto and feeling like junk again. Any advice? Keep doing Keto? Switch it up? Thanks!! ☺️
Finding a way to eat that works for your body does not have to mean you are following rules… it simply means, you are listening to your body and honoring what makes it feel best. You can give it a label (ie keto) or not – but whats most important is that you are not following external rules in spite of your body.
What you are describing sounds to me as if you are finding a way of eating that makes your body feel good… thats what we want to honor, make sense?
Thank you! That make so much sense!!
As soon as I heard you mentioned doing this series, I knew it was for me. I got both books to learn more about it and myself. I grew up hearing about dieting through my aunt and my mom. Mostly my mom though. I am obese according to the bmi chart but that started happening since I was a kid. I had a seizure when I was 1 year old. So I was on medicine for years and slowly got bigger even though I was a very active kid running around. My parents and I believe that the medicine was the cause that started it all. When my mom was younger she got addicted to diet pills but lost all her weight and now she has MS and still to this day she thinks shes fat and needs to lose weight even though shes underweight. I have done weightwatchers and it worked when I started but then I stopped cause I didnt want to pay anymore. Overall, I feel like I need this for myself because I am in the mindset that I dont like how I look. I do want to lose weight so I can be healthy bmi-wise and no longer obese. I am hoping that with this and changing how I feel about myself. Might get me there even if it takes years.
So happy to have you here! I hope this series is informative for you… remember, kindness first. XO
Awesome video. I listened to this book a couple months ago and have fully embraced intuitive eating. It’s given me such freedom about food. I’m no longer obsessed with food, nor am I binging on junk food. I don’t stuff myself and I honor my body’s hunger cues. I have a wonderful husband who has been on a cycle of dieting and then binging for years. He’s done keto several times and is currently doing intermittent fasting. I have watched his weight go up and down and up and down. He is constantly trying to get me to watch videos and documentaries that explain why we need to be on these diets. But I am so done with diet mentality. I’m not as skinny as I used to be, but I can honestly say that I am happy with my body. I workout regularly and enjoy lots of healthy food and also give myself permission to have a treat when I really want one. We had our blood and urine tested recently and my numbers are optimal across the board. I’m healthy, happy and full of energy. What I’m doing is working. So how can I get him to stop pushing these restrictive diets on me?
I’m on the opposite side of the spectrum. if I eat intuitively and listen to my body I don’t feel the need to eat at all and therefore hardly eat anything… interesting stuff though, hope this will help a lot of people.
Q. .Q Same here!
I’m sooo happy you started this series! It is so vital to get more people informed about this subject. For more great resources on this topic, food psych is a great podcast series. Christy Harrison is great and very informed on this subject. However, not hate here, I like this channel a lot for the great recipes! But, I feel Like your advertising yourself as a “weight loss” coach is contradicting to this approach and contradicts you saying to reject the diet mentality, since diet culture is the one telling people to loose weight.
Also, I would like to add that intuitive eating is not healthy or realistic for those recovering in the early stages, of an eating disorder. As someone who is in Ed recovery, listening to my body’s signals right now is unrealistic and untrustworthy. Only when I am fully recovered in intuitive eating viable.