Signs You Are Becoming An Intuitive Eater
You are able to eat the foods you want and like.
You are not feeling anxiety, guilt, or shame around food.
You are not punishing yourself, over-exercising, or restricting before or after meals.
You can eat and move on with your day.
You are not thinking about food all the time.
These are just some signs that you’re repairing your relationship with food. If you’re not here yet, you’re not doing it ‘wrong’. You’re unlearning a lifetime of diet culture messaging while regaining trust in yourself, accepting your preferences, honoring body cues, connecting to your inner wisdom, becoming more flexible in your choices, and learning how to care for yourself with compassion and kindness. It takes practice, experimenting, and tiiiiiiime.
The 10 intuitive eating principles guide us back to being the eaters we were before diet culture sent us down the rabbit hole. Keep in mind that “normal eating” means that sometimes we...
•Eat past comfortable fullness
•Nothing really sounds good
•Don’t have access to what we’re craving
•Didn’t pick something satisfying
•Eat to cope with emotions
•Are hungry again in an hour or 2
•Eat too fast
•Watch tv, the phone, or are otherwise distracted while eating
•Look forward to meals
•Don’t feel like exercising
•Meal prep to make life easier, diet culture doesn’t get to keep that
All of these things and more are normal, they happen to all of us, and are part of being human. Intuitive Eating can feel like a lot in the beginning. Like learning how to drive, it might feel like you have to think of a hundred things at once but eventually you’ll be scream singing down the highway, with a burrito in your hand, the wind in your hair... towards a bigger, fuller life.
