If you’re like a lot of women, you’ve searched and tried several diets over your lifetime so far. And, even if you’re not currently dieting at the moment those food rules creep up every now and then and make you feel shame and guilt about what, when, and how you eat. Wouldn’t be great if you could stop wasting time searching for the next diet or plan and ditch the diet mentality, finally healing your relationship with food?
The great new is that you absolutely can heal your relationship with food and start feeding yourself in a way that feels good to you. No more rules, restrictions, guilt or guessing if you’re doing the right thing. The way to get there is called intuitive eating. Maybe you’ve heard of it or want to know more.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, keep reading to find out what I’m talking about!
What is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive eating is not another diet, it’s an anti-diet. It’s purpose is to heal you from diet culture, so you can stop struggling and start to make peace with your body and your food.
Intuitive eating heals your relationship with food in the following ways:
- By breaking the cycle of dieting.
Food restrictions or food rules can only be sustained for a limited amount of time. At a certain point, whether it’s a lack of willpower or just feeling exhausted, you will eventually rebel against those rules – leading to overeating, binging, and eating the foods you were denied.
After overeating episodes, there’s guilt, remorse, and shame – which leads you to step back into dieting or the ‘food plan’ so you can feel “in control’ again, only to repeat the diet cycle. Does this sound familiar?
I’ll help you move away from diet culture rules, so you can break this on-and-off-again cycle that’s so defeating. This means, removing the polarizing “good” and “bad” food labels that create the mental diet cycle – and teaching you to approach food from a space of emotional neutrality.
Sure, foods have different nutritional values, but the goal is to view all foods as emotionally neutral.
2. By identifying root causes of emotional eating.
Restricting what you’re eating doesn’t help you change emotional eating. This actually exacerbates it.
I will help you with emotional eating by giving you some simple tools that allow you to bring awareness and process the emotions you’re experiencing.
Food may be filling a lot of roles for you – boredom, comfort, stress-relief, pleasure, reward, or something to look forward to at the end of the day.
By helping you process your feelings, you will gain greater awareness and the ability to sit with the feelings. From this space, you have a choice as to how you want to care for yourself emotionally – whether that is through food, self-soothing, support from a loved one, etc.
3. Learning to reduce stress.
You can’t eliminate the sources of all stress in your life, but you can learn tools to help process and manage stress…beyond food.
As you experience less stress, and navigate your life with more ease, your quality of life will improve dramatically. And you will be less likely to emotionally eat if your stress level is lower.
4. By making peace with food.
When you make peace with food, you’re able to trust your body’s internal cues – versus always looking for the rules and plans.
When you let go of any type of eating plan, you can respond more to what your body needs and wants.
You will become empowered to choose what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat. This is the healthy relationship with food that you have been looking for.
5. By rediscovering the pleasure and satisfaction of food again.
This is the piece that dieting totally ignores. Food is meant to be enjoyed! Your brain seeks pleasure. When you deny yourself pleasure from food, your body will crave it in other ways. (Part of emotional eating is seeking out pleasure.)
With this Simply Making Peace With your Plate™ process, you get to start enjoying food again and eating meals that are really satisfying.
One of the reasons satisfaction is so important is because when food is satisfying and pleasurable, you will continue to be motivated – because your needs are being met and you’re having an enjoyable experience.
6. Learning to choose foods that satiate and energize you.
You might be accustomed to following external guidance about how to eat and what to eat. This means that you likely spend a good amount of time feeling hungry or lacking energy – because you’re not eating in a way that truly satiates you and gives you energy.
In the Simply Making Peace With Your Plate™ program, you get to experiment, tune into your body, and really understand what foods fill you up and give you the energy to do all the things you want (and need) to do.
7. By practicing mindfulness with food.
Are you rushing around doing all the things while you are eating? You may often eat while doing other things (driving, watching TV, working, etc.)
This is not wrong or “bad” but it decreases your satisfaction from food.
In this step of the Simply Making Peace With Your Plate™ program, you’re becoming more present while eating, so you’re actually tasting and enjoying your food.
When meals become a time to relax and unwind, it calms the nervous system and allows you to de-stress while improving digestion of your food (and increasing absorption of nutrients).
8. Learning to practice body respect.
In the Simply Making Peace With your Plate™ program, you’re encouraged to stop the war with your body and instead, find a place of body neutrality. (This is usually a more attainable starting point than the “love your body” messaging.)
I will help you quiet the “inner bully” that says you need to shrink or change your bodies. (It’s difficult to let go of the diet mentality without quieting this inner critic.)
Are you Ready to Heal Your Relationship with Food?
If you don’t heal this relationship with food and your body, you will continue to struggle and search for ways to “fix” what you might think is the issue. You are not to blame for the failed diets of the past. Those diets failed you, because they weren’t designed with your mental and physical health in mind. They were short term ways to get you a certain short term result. The diet industry doesn’t want to help you with the root causes, because then you’ll stop investing your money in them.
I am so excited to offer this 14 day program to set you on the path to truly heal your relationship with food and not have you continue investing your money in the next quick fix, only to be frustrated and disappointed once more.
This program is a short term and low cost investment, but offers huge results if you put the effort in. Are you ready to invest in yourself and your long term health and wellness?
If you are ready, find out more about my amazing 14 day Simply Making Peace With your Plate™ program!
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