There are a lot of fears about beginning to eat intuitively and learning to trust your body with food. This is completely normal, especially given that our society is rampant with the diet mentality. I’d love to be able to address your concerns but first, tell me more about your fears.
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When I first started eating intuitively, I was most terrified of gaining weight. And I did gain at first. I freaked out, bought a new scale, and started restricting again. But I knew almost right away that it wasn’t going to work for me anymore. I had seen the other side and even though getting fat terrified me, I wanted to feel that freedom from calorie counting, the scale, the fat calipers, all of it. I knew at that point I was done. Whether IE clicked for me or whether I ate my way up 5 sizes, I knew I couldn’t diet anymore.
The times that I struggle now, I struggle with the emotional part. The food as a tool of distraction and diversion from unpleasant tasks or feelings that I’d rather not deal with. But like Geneen Roth talks about in her book, if we don’t allow the feelings to begin, we not allowing them to end either.
I’m having trouble figuring out whether I’m even hungry or not. It seems like my stomach is always kind of uncomfortable but whether from hunger, being too full, or just plain anxiety is very hard to figure out.
Also, it doesn’t seem like my body would ever want junk food, so when I have a craving for tortilla chips or something like that I’m not sure what to do. Eat what I think I want or decide that it’s probably being caused by something emotional and get into a mental argument with myself.
It’s really hard learning how to stay mindful all the time.
Since I’ve been paying attention, I find I still have to keep my calories in check or else I’m eating so far over I’m gaining weight. Maybe that means I’m just naturally a glutton? Ha!
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