Intuitive eating

Intuitive eating is a nutrition philosophy based on the premise that becoming more attuned to the body's natural hunger signals is a more effective way to attain a healthy weight, rather than keeping track of the amounts of energy and fats in foods. It's a process that is intended to create a healthy relationship with food, mind and body, making it a popular treatment for disordered eating and eating disorders.

Intuitive eating goes by many names, including non-dieting or the non-diet approach, normal eating, wisdom eating, and conscious eating. Some strategies and goals for building intuitive eating skills are discovering how to listen and reconnect with your body's hunger and fullness cues, learn to trust yourself to make decisions around what or how much to eat, take back your power around food, reconnect to your body's innate wisdom to determine the right amount of food for you, develop self-trust around eating challenging or "forbidden" foods, practice being more mindful at meal times in a safe and supportive environment. This approach to eating fights against weight stigma in terms of negative judgement, bias, assumptions, attitudes, and treatment based on a person's size. This stigma inevitably makes people feel worse about themselves and leads to even worse health outcomes for that individual.

"Weight neutrality" is a key component to intuitive eating because it is the process of making absolutely no assumptions about a person's health or habits based on physical appearance (weight in particular). It deems every individual deserving of health enhancing interventions regardless of whether it produces a change in weight. This leads to an intuitive eating approach that is critical to helping without harming.

"Health selfishness" is a term that can help explain the principles of intuitive eating because it includes the process of becoming clear on what food you need, owning what food you need whenever possible, and not apologizing for it. In short, it's about becoming attuned to your own sense of what is right for you. Furthermore, the process of intuitive eating more often than not leads to body positivity and an overwhelming acceptance of one's body, shape, and weight. Body positivity does not worry whether improved self-care results in weight loss because every body is different. Sometimes improved self-care leads to body changes and sometimes it does not. Body positivity is being your own unique self, not making changes to make yourself look like every other idealized image. Through intuitive eating, health selfishness, and body positivity, one can reach one's unique and full health potential without surrendering to society's idea of beauty or hurting themselves physically and emotionally.

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