Intuitive Eating for Beginners | 10 Principles You Should Know

If you're new to intuitive eating and want to learn more about what IE is and how you can begin incorporating it into your everyday life check out this video!

In this video, I go through the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating:
02:11 Reject The Diet Mentality
03:27 Honor Your Hunger
04:54 Make Peace With Food
06:05 Challenge The Food Police
07:09 Discover the Satisfaction Factor
08:10 Feel Your Fullness
09:45 Cope With Feelings With Kindness
11:42 Respect Your Body
13:11 The Joyful Movement
14:53 Gentle Nutrition

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[WorkweekLunch]

Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any specific questions about intuitive eating. I'd also love to hear where you are in your intuitive eating journey below :)

[yan-chanita]

1. Rejecting diet mentality
2. Honor your hunger
3. Make peace with food
4. Challenge the food police
5. Discover the satisfaction factor
6. Feel your fullness
7. In cope w/ emotions w/ kindness
8. Respect your body
9. Joyful movement
10. Gentle nutrition
Remember love your body because you have only one!
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[daniellegloveskeanu]

Today is my first day. I'm excited. I may gain 5 lbs at first on this journey, that's ok. For 20 years I've had disordered eating. This will be nice.

[eva-w]

Yes, I've experienced and still am experiencing the "when it's always available and not forbidden, it becomes less interesting" statement as very true. Growing up we had a sweets box in one of the kitchen cupboards, that always had chocolate, cookies, hard Candy in it. And I knew whenever the mood would strike I could ask my mom and get some sweets, didn't have to be a special occasion or I didn't have to do something first to "deserve" it. Nobody in my household made a big deal about sweets, candy, cake, ice cream etc. neither in a positive or negative way. I believe growing up like this is responsible for my relationship with food today in general.

[fayerweatherdouglas]

Great video! I started my intuitive eating journey close to 7 years ago, and it's the best thing I ever did. I spent 15-20 years dieting and binging in an endless cycle, hating my body and thinking I was a "food addict" because I couldn't "control myself" around carbs and sweets. After I removed all restrictions around eating and started eating intuitively, unlearned the diet culture crap and stopped thinking of foods as "good" or "bad", "healthy" or "unhealthy", my whole outlook changed. I have 85% less stress and self hatred surrounding my body, and, pairing IE with the body positive movement, and eventually HAES really helped me work on the societal/cultural hang ups I had about my body and size. It's an ongoing process, but I think all humans are and should be intuitive eaters. Thanks again for putting this out there!

[Devsdailydose]

I honestly love weight lifting though lol like, maybe I don’t always enjoy the burn in the moment, but when I leave the gym I feel like I’m on top of the world

[sararosesongs]

So right after I watched this I ate a reeeally good veggie burger on a pretzel bun with so much mustard and avocado and tomato and lettuce and vegan cheese (because dairy is usually not my taste), but it was goood. And I had just eaten an hour before but I felt hungry and thought, no i must not be hungry, I just ate--- oh wait, oh okay, I'll eat, and it was almost like as soon as I started cooking my body calmed a little and I was less hungry. Almost like when I get hungry I'm afraid I'm not going to eat. so I ate it. And I ENJOYYYYED IT! I have enjoyed food in the last few years but I always "feel like a fat kid" like some thin people say when they eat and enjoy chocolate etc (so toxic), but I reeeeally enjoyed it! And I allowed my body to relax. Then i watched another video on intuitive eating and binge eating. Then I realized that I felt guilty for some reason. Then I realized that my guilt came from the fact that I was full. I ate twice, not really at meal times, but I really enjoyed the foods and then I wasn't hungry anymore. I never realized before that I feel guilt and shame when I'm full or a little more than full. Like I'm supposed to always be hungry or empty and that's they only way I'm worth anything. yeesh.
There must be so much hidden guilt in my life that I've never realized. Now, I thought i was out of diet culture because I was into whole foods eating etc. And while whole foods eating broadened my pallet etc, it still meant restriction, which doesn't feel good or safe. So here we are. Aaaanyway, maybe this was the wrong place to share this but I thought maybe someone else might relate to not remembering the last time they reeeally ENJOYED food that was "bad" for them, or feeling guilty about being full and satisfied.

[jennykennedy]

Thank you! I tried this years ago and gave up when I started gaining weight - but I'm trying again because I really need to be at peace: w/food, my body, and let go of the dieting mentality.

[RikkiMonk]

My joyful movement is Cycling!!! I don’t enjoy working out. So I started taking cycling classes and I love it! I didn’t realize that my daily mentality toward food actually had a name! I can’t say that I stick to the intuitive eating lifestyle strictly but the entire idea behind it is exactly how I feel towards food in my daily life. Now I want to do more research on intuitive eating so that I can get an even better prospective and routine around it.

[lemonchiax]

I'm here cos I've been struggling with stopping myself from fast food. I would have it and just hate myself so much after. I'm also sick of diet culture cos I just fall right back to where I was. I'm really considering this way of eating. I think it will really help my relationship with food. I made notes 😂

[sashasscorner]

I don't think that isn't a way of weight balance, why because our brain it's already programmet to a certain range of weight so if u are overweight and start eating intuitively you would loose weight because your brain and body knows what it's their perfect weight so if they know u are over or under it would rather make u eat more or less! Trust your body not your mind ( if u use to eat emotionally)

[aliozkaalonso]

Today is my first day. A nutritionist suggested it. The video is great. Thanks very much.

[deno]

I see an eating disorder nutritionist and therapist through an eating disorder clinic. They do intuitive eating to treat it and my first step was eating 3 meals and 3 snacks without distractions. You dont have to be hyper focused but if it takes from your enjoyment of food you should minimize it.

[belenlg]

Thank you so much!! I have been following intuitive eating for some months, fighting the urge to restrict or to weight myself, and allowing myself to eat when I am hungry. It was scary at first, after many many years of dieting and yoyoing, but it feels such a relief and one less thing to worry about in my life. I havent experienced any weight gain long term, but even if I did I feel more confident in my body. I eat healthy most of the time, but I can allow finally to indulge with little treats without then feeling like a failure and going through a binging spiral

[CazzaandKids]

Thank you for being so helpful and basic with this. I've put on so much weight over the last few years and binge eat a lot. I need to get back in touch with just eating when I need to x

[elissa]

I just began with a nutritionist in Jan. and we are slowly working towards helping me reach intuitive eating. It is a huge mind shift- and I've worked with other nutritionists/doctors before - none of whom discussed this as a possibility. I am going through a workbook with her- etc. But, watching this video was a great overview that reinforced what I read in the first two chapters, and previewed what's to come. I also loved hearing that you eat dessert every day. I can't wait to continue on my journey to be free from "food/diet battles."

And though you said weight loss isn't the primary goal- that is still a goal for myself. And since beginning this journey I have lost 7 pounds over 6 ish weeks. It's the slowest I have ever lost weight... but hopefully this is the way it will stick.

[simpattyco]

thanks for all of this! it’s so helpful. your example for honoring your fullness in particular resonated with me and is probably my biggest hurdle. i’ve always had a complicated relationship with food bc of dieting on and off for most of my adult life, and none of them have been sustainable for me. i haven’t dieted in years but i still constantly have these thoughts that i have to enjoy food NOW and i can’t save it for later because it’s almost like part of me thinks i’ll be dieting later on and this will be the last time i’m having good food. so because of that, i ignore my fullness and overeat a LOT. not sure if that’s a product of having designated cheat days back when i was counting every calorie, but this video really helps put things into perspective. going to do my best to tune in with my body more often!!

[thegoodhealthgorilla]

Great video! intuitive eating is a good alternative to intermittent fasting.

[reinesalamoun]

Hello,
I'm newly getting to know the intuitive eating. I am a dietitian and I want to stop practicing diet mentality for myself and my clients

[amandas]

Off topic but your hair color is beautiful I love the reddish brown tone!!