Intuitive Eating
Intuitive eating is a transformative approach that helps you rebuild trust with your body and establish a healthy, joyful relationship with food. Rather than focusing on restrictive diets or external rules, intuitive eating emphasizes tuning into your body's internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction. This approach is evidence-based and rooted in compassion, making it an integral part of our philosophy for sustainable well-being.
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Step 1: Reconnecting with Your Body
The first step in intuitive eating is to help you recognize and honor your body’s natural signals. During our initial sessions, we focus on:
Hunger and Fullness Awareness
Teaching you how to identify and differentiate between physical hunger, emotional cravings, and habitual eating.
Rejecting Dieting Rules
Helping you unlearn restrictive food rules or beliefs that promote guilt or shame around eating.
Understanding Satisfaction
Exploring what types of foods, textures, and flavors feel satisfying to you and how they impact your eating experience.
Identifying Emotional Triggers
Examining situations or emotions that lead to stress eating or loss of control around food.
Step 2: Building a Flexible and Empowered Approach to Eating
Once you’ve reconnected with your body, we guide you through strategies to create a balanced and enjoyable relationship with food. These include:
Gentle Nutrition
Integrating nutrient-dense foods that support your health without sacrificing enjoyment or satisfaction.
Body Respect
Encouraging self-compassion and acceptance, no matter your shape or size, to shift the focus away from weight and toward overall health.
Food Freedom
Removing labels like “good” or “bad” from foods and allowing yourself unconditional permission to eat, which can reduce feelings of deprivation and overeating.
Meal Customization
Creating flexible meal patterns that align with your hunger levels, daily activities, and cultural preferences.
Step 3: Ongoing Support for Sustainable Change
Intuitive eating is a lifelong journey, and we’re here to support you every step of the way. Through regular follow-ups, we help you:
Navigate Challenges
Address obstacles like fear of overeating, social pressure, or old dieting habits that may resurface.
Practice Mindfulness
Cultivate an awareness of how food choices make you feel physically and emotionally, and adjust accordingly.
Refine Your Approach
Tailor intuitive eating principles to your changing needs, lifestyle, and goals over time.
Foster Resilience
Build confidence in your ability to listen to your body and make choices that feel good and support your health.
Our Approach: Compassionate, Science-Based Care
Intuitive eating philosophy is useful as part as the nutrition therapy for 99% of health concerns (diabetes, elevated cholesterol, hypertension, liver disease, ibs etc). It emphasizes true health over weight loss at every cost. Research shows that this approach can improve both physical and mental health by reducing stress, improving self-esteem, and fostering sustainable habits.
Rather than perpetuating diet culture, we focus on helping you develop a nourishing relationship with food that celebrates your body and its unique needs. This journey is not about perfection but progress, with the ultimate goal of making peace with food and yourself.
Let us help you take the first step toward intuitive eating and a healthier, happier relationship with food. Reach out to us today to learn more!
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