Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide

By Eiden Raven

Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide: The Anti-Diet Guide to Stop Chronic Dieting, Make Peace with Food, & Love Yourself is a fun, yet no-nonsense guide to help you find freedom and sanity in your relationship with food. This guide provides a relatable description of how women today are being influenced by diet culture and how this mindset not only restricts them mentally and physically, but also prevents them from fully living their lives. The Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide focuses specifically on the mental aspect of eating, how restrictive eating practices are perceived as healthy eating practices by society, and how making peace with yourself can be difficult when you are surrounded by counterintuitive signals on social media and by those who follow its trends. This guide provides a meaningful explanation of what intuitive eating entails, different eating habits or personalities, and how certain mind-shifts can be made to give yourself the unconditional freedom you deserve. The diet culture that surrounds us poses many dangers, especially to those who are susceptible to thinking they are not good enough to advocate for themselves, their health, and their bodies. To find out how to say no to Aunty Jane's fourth offering of cherry pie, stay tuned. The Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide is created to have fun with, use for self-exploration, start discovering and cherishing your individuality, and to understand that finding our own rhythm in life, when it comes to eating, will benefit you both mentally and physically, no matter how stigmatized eating has become in our current diet culture paradigm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eiden Raven
• Release date: Mar 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393295808

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Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide: The Anti-Diet Guide to Stop Chronic Dieting, Make Peace with Food, & Love Yourself is a fun, yet no-nonsense guide to help you find freedom and sanity in your relationship with food. This guide provides a relatable description of how women today are being influenced by diet culture and how this mindset not only restricts them mentally and physically, but also prevents them from fully living their lives. The Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide focuses specifically on the mental aspect of eating, how restrictive eating practices are perceived as healthy eating practices by society, and how making peace with yourself can be difficult when you are surrounded by counterintuitive signals on social media and by those who follow its trends. This guide provides a meaningful explanation of what intuitive eating entails, different eating habits or personalities, and how certain mind-shifts can be made to give yourself the unconditional freedom you deserve. The diet culture that surrounds us poses many dangers, especially to those who are susceptible to thinking they are not good enough to advocate for themselves, their health, and their bodies. To find out how to say no to Aunty Jane’s fourth offering of cherry pie, stay tuned. The Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide is created to have fun with, use for self-exploration, start discovering and cherishing your individuality, and to understand that finding our own rhythm in life, when it comes to eating, will benefit you both mentally and physically, no matter how stigmatized eating has become in our current diet culture paradigm.

Beginners Intuitive Eating Guide

The Anti-Diet Guide to Stop Chronic Dieting, Make Peace with Food, & Love Yourself.

Eiden Raven

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Intuitive Eating Lowdown

What is Intuitive Eating?

Benefits Based on Research

Intuitive Eating: The Principles

Principle 1: Honor Your Hunger

Chapter 2: Diets and Mentality

What Diet Culture Does to Your Mind

Orthorexia Nervosa

Principle 2: Reject the Diet Mentality

Chapter 3: The Perfection in Imperfection

Embracing Imperfection in Yourself

Embracing Imperfections in Your Circumstances

Principle 3: Cope With Your Emotions Using Kindness

Chapter 4: What is Hunger?

The Science Behind Hunger

How In Tune are You With Your Hunger?

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Scenario 1 Reveal

Scenario 2 Reveal

Scenario 3 Reveal

Principle 4: Feel Your Fullness

Chapter 5: Get Yourself to Get the Mindset

Getting Yourself

Getting the Mindset

Principle 5: Respect Your Body

Chapter 6: The Food Police

When You are the Food Police

When Your Parents or Family are Your Food Police

When Your Friends are the Food Police

Principle 6: Challenge the Food Police

Chapter 7: The Food Pushers

How to Say No

How to Say No Version 2

Principle 7: Discover the Satisfaction Factor

Chapter 8: Moving From Chronic Dieting to Intuitive Eating

The Mindful Eating Stepping Stone

Principle 8: Make Peace With Food

Chapter 9: Understand the Eating ‘Personalities’ to Become an Intuitive Eater

The Professional Dieter

The Unconscious Eater

The Intuitive Eater

The Careful Eater

Creating Real Change

The Professional Dieter

The Careful Eater

Gather Round All Unconscious Eaters

Principle 9: Honor Your Hunger

Chapter 10: Change Your Perspective

Reject the Diet Mentality

Helpful Activities

Make Peace With Food

Helpful Activity

Honor Your Hunger

Helpful Activities

Discover the Satisfaction Factor

Helpful Activities

Feel Your Fullness

Helpful Activities

Challenge the Food Police

Helpful Activities

Emotions Do Not Equal Eating

Helpful Activity

Honor Your Health With Gentle Nutrition

Helpful Advice

Respect Your Body

Helpful Advice

Feel the Difference With Movement

Helpful Tips:

Conclusion

References

Introduction

Trying to be healthy is becoming more and more confusing. We are bombarded with all types of diets, metabolic profiles that supposedly link with specific exercise regimes and how to ratio your macros, and social media accounts everywhere of girls and women who have tiny waists, huge muscular thighs, and who make everything they eat with protein powder. This just doesn’t seem natural—from the way people look to the concoctions that they eat. How did society end up here? What happened to the days when you could just eat a cookie, forget about it, and get on with your day?

Being fit and healthy is extremely important, especially because most of us live a sedentary lifestyle; however, I think that there’s a middle ground here. Following a specific eating pattern or diet is a form of