Intuitive movement is all about focusing on moving your body in ways that feel good.
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Just like a relationship with a friend takes work, so too does your relationship with your body. At the end of the day, your body is your home; a vessel in which to live a meaningful life. Working to nurture it and treat it with kindness and compassion is the ultimate goal of body-respect.
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That desperate urge to eat can be a really useful and effective indicator that something is off for you. Isabel Foxen Duke refers to emotional eating as an ‘internal alarm bell’, which alerts you to the fact that your needs haven’t been met, and that something in your life needs your attention.
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Finding satisfaction is one of the most powerful principles of intuitive eating. Working on this principle will make practicing the others so much easier.
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Our feeling of fullness is something that can change from day-to-day and meal-to-meal. Some days we find ourselves wolfing food down and other days we feel content on less than usual. The goal is to try and find that sweet spot of comfortable fullness.
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The food police is often a direct consequence of diet culture, and getting rid of this internal diatribe is an imperative part of learning how to eat intuitively. This internal narrative develops through years of dieting and exposure to societal messages, and ultimately sets the stage for a very complicated relationship with food and body, because it an encourages reliance on external cues (food rules) instead of internal cues (biological hunger).
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If you tell yourself that you can’t or shouldn’t have a particular food, it can lead to intense feelings of deprivation that build into uncontrollable cravings and, often, bingeing. When you finally “give-in” to your forbidden food, eating will be experienced with such intensity, it usually results in overwhelming guilt.
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Meal plans, macro tracking, and calorie counting are the opposite of listening to your body! External cues pull us further away from an awareness of what our body wants and needs, and the goal of intuitive eating is to listen in to our bodies cues in order to guide decision making about what, when, and how much we eat.
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Research that shows that Intuitive Eating and body acceptance leads to positive health outcomes that far outweigh those gained by dieting. The truth of it is, there is NO way to lose weight quickly, easily, and permanently, and being at a low weight is not the be-all and end-all of health.
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HAES is a weight-neutral approach, meaning that is not inherently against weight-loss, but it is against the single-minded pursuit of weight loss. It works to recognise that body shape, size and weight are not purely evidential of any particular way of eating or level of activity, personality issue or moral character; and there is beauty and worth in every body.
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Juggling a thousand different tasks and goals It may come with a sense of pride and satisfaction, but it often comes at a very high price in the long run. What life will teach you time and time again is that the more we grasp for control, the less we will often get. The better we get at being open and willing to change, quite paradoxically, the more in control we will feel when life throws us a curveball.
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It’s the evening picnics with friends, the late night dinner table conversations with family, the date nights with our partner, the cups of tea and fruitcake when visiting our grandparents, the wine and platters shared with our best friends. Have you noticed how your relationship with food and your body can affect these memories?
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A common misconception that we hear a lot in our work is that complicated relationships with food and body disproportionately affect women. However, the unfortunate truth is that men are just as likely to struggle in their relationship with food and their body. Guys, there is room for you in this narrative.
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Above all else, it’s important to remember that we can’t control the things that people say to us. However, we can control how we react to the things that are said by others, even though it may not always be easy. It can be helpful to gently remind your family and loved ones that jokes and comments about food and body are not welcome at the table.
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How can we possibly eat, drink, and be merry when we have to fit into our bathing suits by boxing day? Well, I know that this goes against everything the media will try to tell you at this time of year, but the idea that you need to be a certain weight or size to enjoy the holiday season simply isn’t true.
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The body will let a calorie deficit happen for a time, but then it starts adjusting the metabolism to use calories more efficiently, which means we hold onto weight, and our diets are no longer effective.
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Health isn’t binary - it’s not something we have or don’t have, something we do or don’t do, and definitely not something we achieve or fail.
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What if we learned to embrace the uncomfortable, and acknowledged vulnerability in its fullness? What would that look like?
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