Weight Management & Intuitive Eating

Intuitive Eating is an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your food, mind, and body; a relationship where you ultimately become the expert of your own body. With Intuitive Eating, you learn how to distinguish between physical and emotional feelings and gain a sense of body wisdom. It is also a process of making peace with food, so that you no longer have constant “food worry” thoughts. Intuitive Eating is eating with the knowledge that your health and your worth as a person do not change simply because you eat a food that you previously labeled as “bad” or “fattening.”

The underlying premise of Intuitive Eating is learning to respond to your inner body cues, because we are all born with all the wisdom, we need for eating intuitively. While this may sound simplistic on the surface, in reality it is actually quite complex. This natural-born inner wisdom is often clouded by years of dieting and food myths that abound in today’s culture. For example, the notion “eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full” may sound like basic common sense, but when you have a history of chronic dieting or of following rigid “healthy” rules about eating, it can be quite difficult. In order to be able to ultimately return to your inborn Intuitive Eater, a number of things need to be in place – the most important one being the ability to trust yourself!