Intuitive dieting for life

What is intuitive eating?

A non-dieting approach to changing your eating habits is also known as "intuitive eating."

According to the National eating disorder association, intuitive eating is about trusting your body to make food choices that feel good for you, without judging yourself or the influence of diet culture.

"We're all born with the ability to know when to eat and when to stop eating, and also know what is pleasurable and satisfying," Rhonda says.

"However, most of us start to become more disconnected and less trusting of our own internal wisdom with the influence of family, friends, media and diet culture."

Focus on your health goals instead of dieting

Rather than fixating on losing weight, Rhonda uses a "weight-neutral" model to help people change their lifestyle behaviors and their relationship with food.

Rhonda says that a lot of people come to her and ask for help with weight loss, but instead she helps them to look at why they want to lose weight: what their past experiences with dieting has shown them, and other ways they could achieve their goals without focusing on changing the size of their body.

"If someone wants to lose weight to be healthier, I would try to understand what that means to thempossibly to lower their blood sugar or blood pressure, or have more energyand then we would look at what behaviors that they could work on, like changing their eating habits, moving their body more or reducing stress," Rhonda says.

"We want to focus on tracking and shifting behavior instead of the

number of the scale."

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