Intuitive Eating

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SW: (first pic) 240 lbs Feb 2025 CW: (2nd & 3rd pics) 203 lbs Feb 2026 GW: 155 So, I’ve been on a plateau for 6 months and feeling dumpy about my progress. I don’t work out regularly and I’m not really strict about my diet when I break fasts, but try to stay high protein. basically I have good days and bad days, fluctuate 5-10lbs a month and I end up not being as active in the winter (I prefer to spend time walking outdoors, i eat less when it’s warmer and I live in northern Maine) I STRUGGLE with my love for carbs/cheese and Binge Eating Disorder. 30mg vyvanse daily for ADHD & BED. I’m 33F/ 5’6” and I have two kids. I keep telling myself it’s a journey and it’s a lifestyle change but my Goal was to be 190 or less by now and it’s hard Not to get discouraged. Just posting for inspiration and accountability And hopefully some confidence/positive vibes. I’m getting married in September 2027 and would Like to be at Least within 20lbs of my goal weight. I have very Muscular legs/lower body and broad shoulders so I feel like I always look huge. Thanks for reading! submitted by /u/Odd_Corgi30 to r/intermittentfasting [link] [comments]

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I'm 5'10 male. I've lost 24 pounds going from 237 pounds to 213 in 3/4 months. I feel so much better and I'm really happy with the progress I've made so har. It's been really consistent 1/2 pounds lost per week. I have 3 basic rules. Only eat when I'm hungry. Set out a portion size before I start eating. Wait 30 minutes after eating the portion before returning to step 1. I'm finding three things a bit of a struggle, firstly I'm trying to get into a "mainternance mindset," I'm a long way from a healthy BMI but I want to start practicing that now. I don't want to be obsessive over food or weight loss and I want to find a balance that works for me. The second is just patience. I'm losing weight at a healthy pace and I literally couldn't ask for more but I'm still finding myself impatience to just be rid of it already. I'm also worried I'll bounce back and will stop eating this way. I have tried to find friends on r/intuitiveeating but I don't feel very welcome there, I've been scolded because apparently a sensation in the stomach is the "last sign of hunger," and so what I'm doing isn't that and r/antidiet doesn't feel right as well, as I am dieting, I am constricting I'm just doing it in a different way. I have to say though I can't connect with a lot of the stuff on here because it seems like a lot of what's on here is based on callorie counting which isn't something I'm doing at all, so I wonder is anyone else in a similar boat. Edit; I'd say my post getting down-voted is exactly the sort of thing I keep finding. I just want to find some people doing something similar to me I can relate to. submitted by /u/non_person_sphere to r/loseit [link] [comments]

I've seen quite a few influencers on social media who claim to be "intuitive eating" dieticians. Some eat straight up junk food: oreos and shamrock shakes and ice cream and pizza all while being literally a size 0. Others (who look less like they're in the midst of a serious eating disorder) will make what looks like a "healthy" and well balanced meal. Oatmeal with berries, a scoop of protein powder and a giant slathering of peanut butter. If you knew nothing of calories, you'd say "yeah, that looks healthy" but if you do, you would know that the dietician just added 300 calories worth of oatmeal, 120 calories worth of protein powder, 200 calories worth of milk 100 calories of berries and 400 worth of peanut butter to their bowl for a literal 1000 calorie bowl of oatmeal. For a short slender woman, that's about half the amount of daily calories for maintenance even if she's active. In fact, the only time it would make sense for someone to eat a breakfast with so many calories (even if they're nutritionally dense calories) would be if they're an athlete or training for a marathon. So I just want to say: you're not defective for not being able to be slender while eating a 1,000 calorie breakfast. The 5'0" 110 pound instagram dietician isn't really eating 4,000 calories worth of peanut butter a week. The tall, slender woman who praises the mother who served her child Powdered donuts for breakfast isn't eating powdered donuts herself. submitted by /u/Empty_Technology672 to r/loseit [link] [comments]

There is always a lot of talk about intuitive eating no matter whether you want to lose weight or stay at your current weight. For my whole life I've thought I've understood what the concept of intuitive eating is. Your body tells you what to eat and when - it's your body. "It knows." Nope. Yesterday I went to eat to a restaurant, starter, dessert, everything. Got a few drinks too. A bit later I was ravenous. I craved anything. Why? My estimation of my cheat day calories was actually above my maintenance. Well, I'm a vegetarian. None of the stuff that I ate had actually protein. No wonder I was hungry! I grabbed a protein bar from the store and felt better. Today I had an outdoors-y day with some exercise. I ate and the protein amount was okay. I was close to my calorie target. Why was I again so hungry? Well, I had walked a lot and burned calories but I also didn't drink enough. I was actually thirsty, maybe also a bit hungry but not that much. I grabbed a protein drink and also drank some water. (Protein-stuff is my weakness but it's better than a candy bar so I don't really care. I struggle to get enough protein.) And to my point: My body knows that it needs something. However these symptom don't necessarily equal to the cause. I need to figure out the reason behind the hunger! Maybe I genuinely haven't eaten enough and that's why I'm craving fast food - it's fast energy but any energy is good enough so I'll get by by eating anything. Maybe I'm just confusing hunger with thirst. Maybe I haven't eaten enough protein. Maybe I'm actually just bored. Or hooked to sugar. And so on. I shouldn't treat the symptom but the cause! submitted by /u/CoconutNo7065 to r/loseit [link] [comments]

Personally my default amount and types of food that I eat end up putting me way over my target calories. I have always wanted to be thin but my eating habits since childhood have always involved lots of fast food and desserts. Not asking for a moral weigh-in on that by the way, I'm just wondering if thin people generally think pretty hard about what they're putting in their body, or if they cruise off instinct and that just works out for them. submitted by /u/DoNotEatMySoup to r/NoStupidQuestions [link] [comments]

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Like I see sooo many intuitive eating shorts on YouTube(and I do realize not all of those are real) and people around me who can just go “oh I’ll guess I’ll just have another croissant” while still being skinny AF and I envy it so much because I literally can’t. I lost 22 pounds and went from chubby to a healthy BMI and I’ve been maintaining for 3 years now and I’m finally happy with my weight and looks but I hateee how I have to consider every single gram because it seems that literally everything in the world is made with an average of 2000 kcal per day in mind and my 5 ft 2 ass can’t have that. I do have my regular cheat days without worrying too much but outside of that every time I want to “intuitively” eat a little extra MyFitnessPal is like “you have overeaten by 3 billion calories” and ughhhhh submitted by /u/Pleasant_Sphere to r/loseit [link] [comments]

We live in a timeline where food is not natural anymore. Your baker around the corner has figured out a long time ago what to put on that cake in order to get you to keep buying it. Big corporations literally *engineer* their food to make you crave more food and buy more food. The system is rigged against you and your intuition. If you rely on intuitive eating (or lets play some bullshit bingo: want to get a "healthy relationship with food"), you are going to fight an uphill battle. The only way to win that game is by putting in some effort on your own end. You will require some motivation, or some disciplin in order to build healthy habits. And do not get me wrong. This is not a pep talk. It should not be this way. But there is always going to be some active input required from your end, because your body unfortunately does not know intuitively what's good for itself. submitted by /u/Expensive-Rub-3276 to r/unpopularopinion [link] [comments]

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/zldwcl/think_like_a_thin_person_not_a_dieter/ ​ Age 51, low end of normal BMI, never have been overweight despite having a condition that predisposes people to weight gain (PCOS with associated insulin resistance); though, I have had to occasionally lose 10-20 lbs. when my weight started to creep. ​ I want to address the concept of ‘intuitive eating’ as it was put forth recently in this post b/c I have some extensive things to say about it. *EDITED TO ADD* As several commenters have pointed out, I need to clarify my purpose with this post. The original concept of intuitive eating was not developed for weight loss, but for retraining of disordered eating etc., and has been somewhat mutated over the years and co-opted by various people (which is somewhat fine, I guess...all concepts change with the times). But I want to be clear that I see A LOT of value in the original conception of IE, which isn't quite what I'm responding to here. What I'm responding to was a specific post that assumed a broad generalization about 'thin people' and how they think about food, and that also approached IE with a specific framing (that might not fully match how other people, or the originators, viewed IE). So I'm definitely NOT saying that IE has no value at all in terms of helping peoples' relationship to eating, nor am I saying that no individual could ever use its principles to help them lose or maintain weight (clearly some people can). I just wanted to discuss the problems with overgeneralizing that type of advice, since I don't think it's broadly applicable across the population, as a primary tool for weight loss. *** There is SOME truth to this post, but it is oversimplified and overgeneralized and not applicable to many (possibly even most) people in the modern food landscape. “Thin people” encompass all sorts of people, including those with different health conditions, genetics, food preferences, and relationships with food. Some thin people have normal hunger cues, reasonably broad palates, and no psychological challenges associated with eating. Eating ‘intuitively’ works fine for many of them, and they are clearly the type the original poster meant. But clearly (just look around) they are in the minority of society. And plenty of thin people don’t fit that profile at all. Some have very disordered relationships with food and stay thin by greatly limiting intake/eating disorders. Some are neuroatypical or have food aversions. Some have problematic medical conditions that contribute to staying thin (gastro issues, overactive thyroid, autoimmune diseases). A lot of them in reality (consciously or unconsciously) do in fact track their intake and adjust it constantly so as to meet their optimal number/TDEE to maintain their weight. For some this is fairly easy, for others it takes active awareness and effort. I can tell you this: As a LIFELONG NORMAL-TO-THIN PERSON with no eating disorders and who has the advantage of actively loving healthy food such as fresh produce, I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT EAT INTUITIVELY. Instead, I eat on a set schedule (including frequently eating when I’m not actually hungry) and I make food choices mostly off a highly nutrient-dense, long-established ‘menu’ of meals and snacks. I don’t eat whatever my body craves nor what I ‘feel like’ intuitively. I did that from childhood through age 30, and though I didn’t become overweight, I hugely worsened my health. Instead, I primarily focus on eating foods that have a lot of nutrient value per calorie, secondarily on flavor (though I don’t eat food that I don’t like), and only thirdly do I focus on ‘intuitive eating’ (that is, eating more according to desire). Eating this way didn’t come naturally; when I was young I preferred sugar and starchy carbs and if I ate purely for pleasure, I would still prefer those foods very frequently. I also used to eat when I was bored, to socialize, or b/c food was ‘around’ or someone else was eating. This all seemed intuitive and natural at the time. How did that intuitive eating work out for me? Well, I didn’t become overweight, but I crucially worsened the insulin resistance/PCOS that I didn’t realize I had, and thus damaged my health pretty badly without realizing it. Later, once I was diagnosed with insulin resistance (yes, very thin people can still have insulin resistance!) I had to work to establish new healthier eating habits and change my environmental cues so that they contradicted my ‘intuitive’ behaviors. My ‘intuition’ insisted that a proper breakfast was bagels, cereal, muffins, flavored oatmeal, etc. My intuition insisted that meeting my friends at Starbucks to hang out was a great idea. I had to reject those strong gut-level feelings and methodically train myself to avoid hanging out near the siren call of pumpkin bread, and to get into the habit of eating protein and veg for breakfast. The reason I (and most people) can’t eat intuitively is b/c our brains are hard-wired by evolution to crave sugar and fat. In the days of our hominid ancestors, calories were tough to get, we struggled to survive, and sugar and fat are calorie-dense so our brains evolved to respond with intense pleasure to those. Do some reading about how addictive substances affect the neurotransmitters in the brain… sugar/fat and certain types of behaviors (gambling/gaming/shopping/sex/porn/social media, etc.) all affect the EXACT same parts of the brain and release a lot of the same pleasure neurotransmitters as addictive substances do. And that part of the brain (nucleus accumbens) is NOT the same part that is in charge of weighing long-term consequences or making complex decisions or exerting willpower about what to eat. The intuitive part of the brain is a primitive, short-term-pleasure-seeking infant with no ability to reason or plan for long-term consequences of today’s choices. It is NOT usually an untapped well of self-knowledge and healthy choices. The exact vulnerability of each individual to different addictive substances and behaviors (including those related to food) varies a bit by genetic makeup (not in our control), upbringing and early conditioning (only slightly in our control), our environment and social cues (somewhat in our control), and our personal choices (more in our control). But almost nobody is immune to the lure of addictive substances and behaviors. (This is why it’s also a mistake to generally assign challenges with addiction or unhealthy behaviors to ‘poor character’ or some sort of moral value). And in the modern environment, the triggers posed by those types of addictive stimuli are easily available and constant, so for most people, the key to controlling our impulses around them is a combo of clear self-knowledge, and then learning skills and tools to hack our vulnerabilities and develop supportive long-term habits that prevent us from constantly having our intuition in the driver’s seat, and also to prevent ourselves from constantly having to rely on the (fleeting and unreliable) 'willpower' and 'motivation'. The other problem (as mentioned in my own case) is that tons of people in developed societies now have a metabolic disorder known as insulin resistance (as witnessed by the skyrocketing rates of diabetes). Often people don’t even realize they have it until they get the bad news about diabetes. IR dramatically affects metabolism and hunger signals. It prevents the cells of the body from efficiently utilizing glucose for energy, resulting in wild swings in blood sugar and energy, and constant signaling from the most primitive parts of the brain: YOU ARE STARVING! YOU NEED FOOD! SUGAR!SUGAR!SUGAR!!!! IR also disrupts normal signals of satiation, so people with IR will often experience active hunger pangs only an hour or two after eating a full meal. Intuitive eating doesn’t work with uncontrolled IR b/c (ironically) though your brain will constantly scream for quick energy and you will therefore crave sugar and carbs, those foods actually worsen IR if eaten regularly over time! Plus there are all kinds of psychological challenges to making healthy and calorie-appropriate food choices that further confuse people (and societal messaging worsens this confusion). People use food as a reward for good days, as comfort for bad days, as celebration of any possible occasion, as a distraction from boredom, as social bonding, as a hobby, to express love, to self-medicate the lack of love, etc. OFTEN THEY DON”T EVEN REALIZE THEY ARE DOING THIS and quite a bit of work and self-knowledge is required to tease out these triggers and hack or defuse them. For all the above reasons, I would suggest that intuitive eating is only going to be a good approach for a minority of people in our modern society, including for most of us thin people. submitted by /u/wenchsenior to r/loseit [link] [comments]

I am /so badly/ wanting out of diet culture.. but I don’t know if intuitive eating will help me get the body I want without tracking calories lol I hate tracking calories because it feels so ED to me (I had an ED stint in hs and used MFP so I hate using MFP nowadays and don’t like viewing myself like that again) I am assuming I can intuitively eat and just train a lot.. I’m just worried about gaining instead of losing (I am def the hangry type lol) Currently I am doing Caroline Girvans beginner program and will be starting Epic I in a couple weeks probably.. 5’2, 131lbs wanting to get down to 115(?) but honestly trying to switch my mindset to just doing progress pics and tracking my measurements… but I’ve been tracking my weight for the past month or so and I’m typically 129-131 and super not happy w my fat % Also, literally any advice or two cents on intuitive eating would be great! submitted by /u/GurBoth8364 to r/PetiteFitness [link] [comments]

I don’t go on there often, but when a post pops up on my timeline, it’s always a post filled with comments saying “you’ll naturally want the things that will make you feel better/you will naturally crave more vegetables/I don’t even crave sugar anymore, yay!,” and I feel like that’s just a roundabout way of giving moral value to food and thus perpetuating the concept that some foods are better than others, that if you want to be healthy, you should always choose the “healthier” option. I understand the concept of gentle nutrition. But what annoys me is that the sub kinda makes it “mandatory,” and it gives me major restriction vibes. Gentle nutrition should be about what you can add. Unless you have allergies, intolerances, GI issues exacerbated by certain foods, or food you just plain do not like the taste of, there is no reason to replace or remove them. And it should be centered around foods you enjoy. Like, if you want a greasy burger but you also want to get some vegetables in, why can’t you order the burger and a salad together? Idk, maybe this is just me, but I just feel like that community forgets that intuitive eating is multifaceted, or they just choose to ignore it. Like a lot of it is rooted in diet culture and that’s why a lot of ED sufferers frequent that sub, imo. submitted by /u/Sareeee48 to r/fuckeatingdisorders [link] [comments]

165lbs = 125lbs] (2.5 years) Lost via CICO principles. Ate carbs and sugar. Been in maintenance for most of 2021. Sitting within a 5 lbs window fairly consistently. Weekly weigh in every Monday. Intuitively eat now. Now I love endurance running." title="M/37/5'10" [290lbs > 165lbs = 125lbs] (2.5 years) Lost via CICO principles. Ate carbs and sugar. Been in maintenance for most of 2021. Sitting within a 5 lbs window fairly consistently. Weekly weigh in every Monday. Intuitively eat now. Now I love endurance running." /> submitted by /u/solo2070 to r/progresspics [link] [comments]

Just wanted to share some advice. Trigger warning for anyone who is an Eating Disorder sufferer, because I talk about mine here. When I was in my early 20s, I started calorie counting and losing weight. I lost about 60 pounds this way and it quickly turned into a restrictive eating disorder. After battling this for about 5 years, I decided I wanted to start my road to recovery, and once I opened the floodgates, I developed a binge eating problem. This had me gain back all my original weight, plus another 30. I was obese and miserable and could not stop eating. After this, I yo-yo'd back and forth between dieting and binging. This cycle continued until I sought out a therapist that specialized in disordered eating. She suggested Intuitive Eating. I already had ideas and doubts about IE... it seemed to be something that many obese and overweight "influencers" were encouraging and it make me skeptical that it would help me achieve balance. I only ever heard of obese people using it and I didn't want to be obese anymore. Over the past year with following the IE principals my therapist taught me, I have slowly and consistently lost and maintained a 30 pound weight drop, and it is still going down. Very slowly, but still going down. And I feel better than I ever have with the best relationship with food I ever had. The main tips that I want to share that have been the most helpful to me: You are born an Intuitive eater. Dieting, restricting, emotional eating, cultural and family beliefs affect our normal eating patterns and teach us not to trust our bodies. We can tap into this intuition by listening to our bodies. Find a hunger/fullness chart. Ask yourself where you are on the chart. Eat before you are "very hungry" and stop before you are "very full". The sweet spot is in the middle. You want to feel satiated, but not stuffed. You don't want to feel ravenous. When we're ravenous, we overeat. When you are hungry, ask yourself what your body is REALLY craving. Salty or sweet? Hot or cold? Crunchy or soft? Fresh and raw or cooked? Really think about it. Sit with the question. Don't rush. When you give your body what it wants, you will feel more satisfied. Eat SLOWLY. Pause when eating. Eat without distractions. Chew your food at least 10 times before swallowing. Let your body catch up to your brain. NO FOOD IS OFF LIMITS. read it again. You can eat anything. But you need to eat it slowly and not passed fullness. Really enjoy it when eating it. It takes some time and work... but it works. And it feels so much better than counting calories or intermittent fasting for the rest of your life. submitted by /u/RhubarbSilly5734 to r/WeightLossAdvice [link] [comments]

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All of my adult life I have weighed about 145 lbs at 5’6”. That is pretty normal and I looked good but it bummed me out that I work so hard to be just normal. I learned about Stephanie buttermore and how I could stop counting calories if I just gave myself unconditional freedom to eat...my weight would go up but then after time it would come back down and normalize. Obviously, that definitely didn’t happen. After 1 year I had done from normal weight to obese, gaining 50 lbs steadily with no signs of stopping. I felt disgusting, could barely walk from the pain in my feet due to such rapid weight increase, had terrible headaches everyday, couldn’t sleep, and generally spent most of my time wishing I would just die. I WAS LITERALLY NORMAL BEFORE THIS. I kept believing it would work. Finally I quit. I got a Fitbit and counted calories and have lost a lot of the weight now. I feel incredible. Literally, what the fuck was I thinking. submitted by /u/couldibeanyfatter to r/loseit [link] [comments]

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Hey guys, I never thought I'd post here, in my entire life, and I'm not sure this type of posts are allowed here. But I wanted to share how stupid and ridiculous I'm feeling right now. After reading the general opinion this sub has on IE and HAES, after learning I gained this much weight, I can say, I couldn't agree more. Basically, I AM someone who has struggled with an ED (edit: bulimia) for many years, who has a diagnosed thyroid condition, and who is now obese. When I started my recovery, I ate "intuitively", and for a year and a half, I gained no weight and saw my relationship with food improve, as my health did. 6 months ago I decided to start seeing a RD. I didn't know what IE or a HAES aproach really was. She basically told me that everything I knew about nutrition was wrong and said it's about habits, not weight. Basically, she pushed on me all the bullshit y'all post here. So, me, being the dumbass I am, I believed her! I started exercising less (I used to walk 12k steps a day), and I was encouraged to emotionally eat and stop weighing myself. Fastforward last month, I ripped my largest pair of jeans, that I hadn't worn in 4 years because they were TOO BIG. I noticed my largest bra didnt fit, and that I was INCREDIBLY BLOATED and INCREDIBLY HUNGRY. Around February, I started getting hungrier, but I just kept telling myself this was a phase, and that my body was just adjusting... Well, I decided to track my calories for a couple days, and I was eating anywhere from 400 to 1000kcal ABOVE mantainence. I bought some new bateries for my scale and I couldn't believe my eyes! 22lbs. 22 fucking pounds y'all! In less than 6 months!!!!! Now it makes sense why my cholesterol levels had gone up for the first time in 4 years!!! I'm now Obese II!! (I'm a petite woman and I had never been more than 30-35lbs overweight). So I'm back to calorie counting and walking! And I feel more satisfied than I was feeling. I'm not compromising my own health for no reason! This lifestyle is potentially dangerous, and it put me at risk and rose my cholesterol levels. This is not OK. EDIT 2: I have read every single comment, and thank you all for the encourgement and sharing your experiences with me. I'm relieved to see I'm not the only one who was conned into this mindset, and gladly snapped out of it :) thanks for your kindness and comments! submitted by /u/HealingF to r/fatlogic [link] [comments]

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I joined this subreddit to see if anyone had experience with intuitive eating because I wanted to share my experience, but wanted to first see if anyone here had any experience with it as well. Unfortunately all I could find was skepticism and ridicule of it, including a 3-month old post totally bashing intuitive eating, saying that it's an excuse to stay fat, and if it worked no one would be fat, etc etc. This actually made me completely stunned at how ignorant the majority of the weight loss community is about intuitive eating and what it actually means. Intuitive eating isn't just eating whatever you want. Well, actually, it is. But the key to intuitive eating is having "whatever you want" change drastically & dynamically. A real intuitive eater knows that deciding what to eat isn't solely about how the food tastes. Other incredibly important factors on choosing what, and how much, to eat at any given time are: how physically hungry you are & if you are at all (this is a HUGE one), the effect the food has on you physically/mentally, (does too much of it make your stomach hurt, make you tired, mess up your concentration, screw up your digestion?), and if you truly enjoy it (an alternative to thought processes like, "this cake is really dry and tasteless but I'll eat it anyway because cake is cake"). The hunger part is what most people who dismiss intuitive eating seem to miss completely. The following applies to healthy human beings with normally-functioning digestive systems: When your stomach growls, you feel slightly lightheaded, your stomach feels empty, or any combination of those symptoms occur, you are hungry. This means your body needs food. When none of those things are happening, this means your body does not need food. If you eat regardless of showing no clear signs of physical hunger, you are "non-hunger eating". This could fall into the category of boredom, emotional discomfort, force of habit, or "just because it's there", but the bottom line is, you're eating when you don't need to be & your body has no choice but to store the excess as fat. THIS is what causes obesity. THIS is how "hamplanets" are created. If a person learns to listen to their body, they can decide they don't want to go to McDonalds for lunch anymore because despite the taste, it makes them feel disgusting and gives them constipation. They can decide that instead, they want to go to an authentic burger joint, but split their meal with one (or two) of their friends because the whole thing would be too much for them to comfortably eat alone (as most portions in America are). The biggest difference between America (the fattest developed country) and the Japanese (the slimmest) are that the portion sizes in Japan are SIGNIFICANTLY smaller. No one there buys "low fat" this or "low calorie" that. Nor do they slave away on treadmills all day. They just don't eat unnecessarily large portions. YES, there are fat people who twist the idea of "intuitive eating" to mean "eating tons of food and forcing myself to be happy remaining fat". NO this is not an accurate depiction of what intuitive eating really means. And no, I am not one of those people. My highest weight was 140 pounds, and since I'm short, that was a lot. I am now 20 years old, 115 pounds at 5'2" and a happy, intuitive eater. I don't even like to call myself that because of the negative rep the word gets. I'd like to instead call myself a normal person with a healthy relationship with food. And I owe this completely to intuitive eating. Years of yoyo dieting, gaining & losing the same 20 pounds, did nothing but make me depressed and obsessive, EVEN when I was doing it the so-called "healthy" way. Eating the way I do now feels utterly free, so liberating, and so effortless. I don't count, nor do I care about calories anymore. If I'm hungry, ACTUALLY hungry, not just in the mood to eat, I eat whatever would sit well with me (PHYSICALLY as well as taste-wise) at the moment. I love strawberries. I also love sushi and tempura udon. I also love grilled salmon with steamed rice. I also love fried chicken from Popeyes. Not in massive amounts, because my body doesn't need massive amounts. When my stomach tells me to stop (when I'm comfortably full, not bursting at the seams), I listen. I don't eat out of boredom anymore. Instead I've taken up reading, gaming & watching anime (don't judge me lol), amongst other hobbies I enjoy. I felt the need to share this because it seems like the general consensus is, if you're not one of those "lucky naturally skinny people" you must undergo some severe dieting regime involving lots of counting and self control in order to be slim. Well, I'm here to tell you all that it's all BS, that's probably perpetuated by the dieting industry's need to sell products. I'm happier and slimmer than I EVER was while dieting. I finally feel normal like my "naturally thin" friends (fyi they're actually NOT magical, they just don't eat more than their body requires. you'd be surprised at how little some of them actually eat without even trying) and I owe it 100% to the complete mental, psychological, & emotional overhaul that learning how to become an intuitive eater put me through. If there's anyone out there who's been wanting to quit dieting or isn't looking forward to counting calories for the rest of your life, feel free to respond. There are lots of books I read that guided me through this process that I'd be glad to recommend if anyone's interested. submitted by /u/galactic_girl to r/loseit [link] [comments]