6. Intuitive Eating Series: What is Intuitive Eating + Principle #1 Rejecting the Diet Mentality

This new year instead of dieting.... learn about Intuitive Eating!! Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating framework. It is a personal process of honoring your health by listening to your body and paying attention to the messages and acting in a responsive and compassionate way. Only you know when your satisfied with a meal or need to attend to your self-care. There is no external rules to dictate what, when or how to eat. It is a journey of making peace with all foods. In this episode I review: - What Intuitive Eating is all about - The benefits as reported from the literature - Explain the first of 10 principles which is Reject the Diet Mentality - Spill the beans on some hard truths about dieting and weight loss interventions  -  Share three steps I do with clients when working through this principle - A take home activity you can start to reject the diet mentality This is a big principle but a very important starting place. In order to find peace with food rejecting the diet mentality is a must! --------------------- If you would like a question answered on a future episode send me a DM to my podcast Instagram account at @dietculturedropoutpodcast.