Ep 160 - Making Intuitive Eating into a Step by Step Process

<p>Hello! Welcome to How to Love Your Body, today on the podcast we are talking about how to take the big, overwhelming, vague intangible work of intuitive eating and make it more tangible, action based and DOABLE!</p> <p> </p> <p>A major barrier for most people in UnDieting is that it’s a philosophy or idea that people can generally understand and get behind, they may even want to live that way… but what do I actually DO???</p> <p> </p> <p>Since they aren’t sure what to do they get stuck in learning, learning and learning more.</p> <p>Soon enough they’ve subscribed to every podcast, they’ve read every book on the topic and they follow every IE counsellor on Instagram, but not much has actually changed in the way they eat, think about food, move their bodies or think about their bodies.</p> <p> </p> <p>Of course some times will have big aha moments just from listening to this philosophy, and that is amazing!</p> <p> </p> <p>However, if that isn’t you, and you’re feeling stuck we have a lot of great insights to share with you, because this work CAN be more tangible, there really are steps to take to work towards things like ending binge eating, stopping mental and physical restriction, even body image work and pursuing wellness without the obsession.</p> <p> </p> <p>I believe that a lot of these step by step instructions aren’t talked about very much because the people who already live it and teach it just DO these things, they don’t even consciously realize it.</p> <p> </p> <p>What we have done over the last 6 or 7 years while we have been UnDieters and Intuitive Eaters is observe ourselves, how did we stop restricting? How did binge eating end? What if someone wanted to do this too? What would we say to do each step of the way?</p> <p>Here is an example:</p> <p> </p> <p>Ending binge eating:</p> <p>The advice that is often given is allow all foods and stop restricting:</p> <p>Okay well how do I DO that??</p> <p> </p> <p>It sounds easy, it sounds logical and straightforward.