INTUITIVE EATING

The discussion on intuitive eating continues this month.  Just to reiterate, intuitive eating can be defined as “an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your food, mind and body.” Hopefully some of the information you have received during the last two months is beginning to change how you look and feel about eating. This newsletter will provide the last three principles pertaining to the practices of intuitive eating, I encourage anybody who would like more information on this topic to check out the website www.intuitiveeating.com. It will give more in-depth information to assist each one of us in finding our own level of intuitive eating and the balance between dieting and healthy living. Respect your body. Accept your genetic blueprint, there are some things that each of us can do to help promote health and weight control, but at the end of the day you have to be happy with your body and the gifts you have been given. Mostly, respect your body so that you can feel better about who you are and who you plan to become. Exercise – feel the difference. Forget the monotony. If regularly scheduled exercise is difficult, try to focus on becoming more active all throughout the day and how your body feels during activity.  If you focus on how you feel, such as energized & healthy, it can keep you more motivated than the number of calories burned. Honor your health. Remember that you have to find a balance between what your body needs and what your taste buds want. You don’t have to have a perfect diet to be healthy. Focus more on what you eat consistently rather than at one snack or meal time. Progress, not perfection, is what we’re looking for!