Imagine – you no longer have to rely on draining crash diets to drop those extra pounds! Sounds like a dream, right? Well, intuitive eating might just be that miracle for you.

Choosing this pathway, you can eat whatever you want – quite literally – without any hard and fast rules and still lose weight. You simply have to follow through and listen to your inner voices on when to ‘stop’.

Want to know how? Let’s break it down for you:

What exactly is intuitive eating?

Two dieticians from California, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch came up with the intuitive eating model back in the year 1995.

The plan is simple – listen to your gut and stop eating when it signals you that you’re full. The experts believed that all of us, fundamentally, are born ‘intuitively’. Take the example of kids. They eat when they are hungry and take a break when they are full.

As we progress we age, we become less and less mindful of what we put in our body. While adopting the intuitive eating routine, we basically have to learn, re-learn, and unlearn eating habits and adopt a more sustainable pattern.

It is simple, you just have to be aware of what your body is signaling. Eat when you are hungry and stop when you feel full. Intuitive eating is not a ‘diet plan’. You can eat whatever you want, but more in a way where you are not forcing eating beyond your need. This way, you will be only consuming what you need, leading to a healthy lifestyle.

Intuitive Eating | what are the rules?

Stop hating on your hunger

Wire your mind in a way that you don’t see hunger as your enemy. Your body signaling that you need food is its way of keeping you healthy and saving you from starvation. Honor your hunger and respect your body enough to not stuff it with more food than it needs.

But how will you know you are actually feeling hungry? Here are a few signs to help you detect it:

It is not a diet

Intuitive eating is not a diet. It is a proper lifestyle that you have to adopt and stick with it. Rules are simple: eat when you hungry, stop when you feel full.

• Growling stomach, you can hear it.
• Feeling of fatigue, tiredness, and shakiness.
• Restlessness and experiencing mood swings
• You are struggling to focus. 
  
• Don’t demonize ‘food’
  
  A long time of struggling with diet, body image, and weight can alter your relationship with food. This is what you need to work on the most with intuitive eating.

Food is not ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – it is our eating habits that have the consequences. Once consumed in moderation, nothing you put in your body will have a negative effect.

Adopting intuitive eating means being more aware of your own body. You have to feel your fullness and embrace the satisfaction.

When you feel your hunger pangs disappearing and appetite reduced, this is where you need to practice a little self-control and stop eating. You will be surprised to know what this can do for your health and body!