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How to Honor Your Hunger
You know deep down that dieting is futile, that you want off the lose weight-regain weight roller coaster, and you’re starting to think that Intuitive Eating might be for you. So how do…
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Do You Really Need to Be Thin or Do You Just Want to be Loved?
Do you feel like you have to be thin to feel loved, cherished, respected, or cared for? If so, ask yourself… Who do you love because they are thin? Who do you want…
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Pandemic stress can be triggering for people coping with eating disorders, experts say
Experts estimate over 30,000 people cope with eating disorders across the United States. Every 62 minutes, someone dies from an eating disorder. These disorders often begin as stress or anxiety, and doctors…
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Resolution 2021: Ditch the Dieting. Forever.
The first principle of intuitive eating (a strategy that utilizes your body’s inherent knowledge, genetic programming and instinct to help you manage your weight) is to Reject the Dieting Mentality. This oh-so-important step…
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9 Things the Weight Loss Industry Doesn’t Want You To Figure Out
The weight loss industry is a 20 billion dollar a year industry. In the US, 108 million people are dieting at any given moment in an attempt to lose weight and reshape their…
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Why Not Eating When You Are Hungry is a Bad Idea
Contrary to what we’ve been taught by the media and weight loss companies, going hungry will not ultimately help you manage your weight. In fact, if weight loss is your goal, going hungry…
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8 Classic Books That Will Help You Ditch Diets and Heal Your Relationship with Food & Your Body
Google can guide you to literally thousands of books, blogs, and articles about destructive diets, body image and eating disorder recovery. I’ve personally spent hundreds of hours reading related content and it seems…
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Eatuitive – Free Yourself from Dieting & Disordered Eating
Hi. I’m Kris Pina. I created Eatuitive and this blog to share what I’ve learned about dieting, weight loss, body image, eating disorders, and non-diet approaches to weight management and health. I am…
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How to Eat Intuitively: 10 Guidelines That Will Help You Get Started Today
Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you could just eat when you were hungry and stop when you were satisfied without worrying about your weight? Or how about allowing…
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Yes! You Can Stop Dieting and Still Reach (and Maintain) a Weight that is Healthy for You
If you’re doing what you’ve always done (dieting), expecting that it’ll be different this time (you’ll keep the weight off and live happily ever after), but, despite all your efforts, you just keep…
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Respecting your Fullness: How to Stop Eating When You’ve Had Enough
Respecting your fullness means listening for the signals your body sends when it’s satisfied, approaching fullness and full — and making decisions about whether to stop or continue eating considering what your body…
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Are your Food and Exercise Habits putting you at Risk for Developing Orthorexia?
For some people, interest in healthy food can transform into an eating disorder. The Authorized Bratman Orthorexia Self-Test below is designed to help you determine whether you have come close to, or have…
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Eating “Clean” Will Not Get You into Heaven (and Other Thoughts About Clean Eating)
Eating “Clean” Will Not Get You into Heaven (and Other Thoughts About Clean Eating) There is no definition of clean when it comes to nutrition. When somebody says they are eating clean it…
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Pleasure-Based Eating Vs. Rules-Based Eating
In our quest to be thin and/or to eat healthy, we often overlook the fact that eating should be a pleasurable experience. Consider for a second….How much do you actually enjoy the diet…
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Why Food Rules Drive You to Eat More of The Foods You Are Trying to Avoid
Want off the dieting chain gang???? Challenge the Food Police!! The 4th Principle of Intuitive Eating is to challenge the voices in your head (the “Food Police”) that tell you that you are…
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How to Stop Eating When You Are Satisfied
To respect your fullness means to listen for the signs your body sends you when it’s satisfied, approaching fullness and full — and to make decisions about whether to stop eating taking this…
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What to Do (Instead of Eating) to Cope with Feelings
Do you use food to cope with life? Anxiety, loneliness, boredom, worry and anger are emotions every human experiences. Although food may comfort you for the short term, distract you temporarily from your…
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7 Reasons Not to Diet
There are more than enough reasons to ditch your diet and to start eating intuitively instead. Here are a just a few… 1) Diets don’t work for 98-99% of dieters which means only…
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What to Eat When You are Eating Intuitively
So as an Intuitive Eater, what are you supposed to eat? After many years of dieting this might be a complicated question for you. You may have so many foods on your forbidden…
