Posts tagged respect your body
Perimenopause: Navigating Body Changes and Symptoms with Intuitive Eating and Self-Compassion

Do you remember your first perimenopausal symptoms? Or at least the first time you realized the weird thing happening to you might just be perimenopause?

I sure can remember when things started to change, when things related to my body and menstrual cycle started to impact my normal flow of daily life.

The most noticeable disruption started a few summers ago when I had a stretch of night sweats.

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How Intuitive Eating Works: Interoceptive Awareness - The Science of Intuition

Intuitive Eating is not a random list of rules. The principles were developed to help you better sense, understand, and respond to your body’s internal cues. They help you improve your body awareness or remove obstacles that make it harder to have body awareness.

Strengthening interoceptive awareness will make it easier to notice and respond appropriately to your body’s internal signals, including hunger, fullness, and tricky emotions.

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The Truth About Weight Loss and Intuitive Eating: What You Need to Know

The long and short of it is that intuitive eating is not a diet. Not even a non-diet diet. Or an anti-diet diet. Diets are about changing your physical body, usually to make it smaller. Focusing on weight will make it impossible to truly eat intuitively.

Intuitive eating is about changing your relationship with food and your body; it is not about changing your body size.

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Intuitive Eating 101: The 10 Principles

Intuitive Eating is a framework of 10 principles that support self-care and can help you improve your relationship with food and your body. It helps you relearn how to listen to and trust internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction rather than relying on strict external diet rules.

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