wobbly jogger: The Ten Principles of Intuitive Eating

I have seen this posted on a few blogs including Running on Healthy and Run Eat Repeat, and since I am slowly going crazy with all this calorie counting and avoiding higher calorie foods I thought this would be right up my street. So over the next few posts I will cover the Ten Principles of Intuitive Eating. Which is about recognising your hunger and eating what you want while thinking about how it will affect your feelings. The Ten Principles start with:

Reject the Diet Mentality

I started my journey at 13stone. A BMI of 30 and unhappy. I started running and counting calories to 1800kcal. Then moving onto Slimming World as I found not having to count calories amazing! However even though I lost over 1.5stones here the novelty went, and I went back to calorie counting, telling myself that I don't eat biscuits/crisps/chocolate and counted calories to 1600-1800kcal. Continuing to run to keep my exercise levels up and even added in a few exercise DVDs to increase the variety of my workouts. I eventually got down to 9stone 7lb but wanted to lose a little more. I also wanted to see if I could maintain this weight without counting the calories and to see if I could eat what I fancied without worrying. Well...no. I couldn't. The weight creeped back on until I reached 11st 5lb. Even as the weight increased I was constantly fixated on losing weight but it just kept going up, I tried many things to be healthy like going vegan and clean eating but they didn't work for me and I found myself craving like crazy. So back in with the calorie counting! This time to 1400kcal and eating back any exercise calories, monitored on MyFitnessPal. I can't say calorie counting doesn't work, it does. But it don't half get boring! Low calorie eating and once again avoiding certain calorie dense foods is slowly driving me crazy! Also with being surround by people on low calorie diets and cutting out food groups it had made me think that I really need to become at ease with food. My main problem is over eating in the afternoon, if I fancy something outside my allotted calories I will think about it until I burst and eat it in abundance, a long with many other foods since my brain has gone into over eating overdrive!

So! It is time to reject this 'diet mentality' and eat what feels good and let my body find its natural weight. My goal is 53kg (8st 5lb...i think), we will see what the future holds!

Next: 2. Honor Your Hunger

1. Reject the Diet Mentality
2. Honor Your Hunger
3. Make Peace with Food
4. Challenge the Food Police
5. Respect your Fullness
6. Discover your Satisfaction Factor
7. Honor your Feelings Without Food
8. Respect Your Body
9. Exercise
10. Honor Your Health

Read more at http://runeatrepeat.com/weight-loss/intuitive-eating/#5L5AZ2aJQHFp5r5g.99

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Friday 31 January 2014

The Ten Principles of Intuitive Eating

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