Healing Eating

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INTUITIVE EATING IS NOT A DIET 😊😊

I (Zoe) am posting this after a client told me how she came across an “intuitive eating” based podcast that had plenty of food rules to assist with weight loss.

Intuitive eating is about learning how to be as in tune with your body as you can be. You get to make the choice about leaving food on your plate or not.

Intuitive eating is not a means to control or manage your weight, it’s a framework to help you eat in a way that is both as nourishing and as pleasurable for you as possible, given your circumstances.

But it's totally ok to want to lose weight, many of our clients do and learning how to navigate this is a core part of the work we do. The difference is not using the IE framework as a way to lose weight.

Note: we acknowledge that IE is a privilege and not everyone has the resources or capacity to eat intuitively.

Zoe .dietitian.lovewhatyoueat
Jodie .arnot.counselling

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If someone is telling you to leave food on your plate, that is not intuitive eating

If someone is saying this will help you lose weight, that is not intuitive eating

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The first time I ever heard the sentence “eat when you are hungry” was in a program called Thin Within. It was way back in the last century. I was twenty-seven and had just gained eighty pounds. I attended six weeks of the program and it changed my life because for the first time, I realized that eating could be about hunger and fullness, not calories and ice milk. Now, Joy Imboden Overstreet, the creator of Thin Within (along with Judy Wardell), has written The Cherry Pie Paradox, a book that describes her theories. Her realizations. Her brilliance. Thank you, Joy. I owe a lot to you. So you all: Check out her book. It’s where so much began...

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Increasingly, I am being contacted by people who feel utterly confused and lost with how to eat. It’s sheer madness how “successful” diet culture or the “wellness” world is at confusing intelligent resourceful people with what should be a basic human instinct - how to feed oneself.

There is another way.

Zoe
Kerrie

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If you feel confused and lost with how to eat
the problem is not you, it’s diet culture and the “wellness industry”