Megan Roantree looks at how this method can change the way we feel about food and our bodies🍊
Hands up if you’ve tried at least one restrictive diet in your lifetime. Maybe you’ve stopped yourself from eating something you like because you feel like you don’t deserve it. Have you ever looked in the mirror and had negative thoughts about your body? It doesn’t have to be like this. There is a way to have a healthy relationship with food and your body.
So we’ve got this catch-22 because if we go by the plan then we go to bed hungry, which is not a nice experience and you’re not honouring the needs of your body, but if we honour the body we feel guilty because we broke the ‘rules’ of the diet. So dieting is disconnecting us and bringing us away from our interceptive awareness. Whereas intuitive eating reconnects us with ourselves and gives us permission to listen to the body’s signals and honour them and respond to them appropriately”.
Niamh was frustrated by the focus on food plans and weight loss in her profession. “When I was doing my yoga teacher training and I was really interested in this concept of the mind-body connection. It never really sat right with me to feel like I had to tell people what, when and how to eat. I wouldn’t like anyone to tell me so it felt very restrained.
“We’ve really reduced health to the number on the scale or food you put into your mouth but health is so much more than that. If we look at the WHO definition of health, it’s about physical, social and mental well-being, not just the absence of disease and infirmity.
Time is a major barrier for people too, says Niamh. “It’s exacerbated by us being busy and saying ‘I don’t have time to do this’, but we need to prioritise what’s important to us. So just because someone decides to work on their relationship with food, doesn’t mean it’s a life-long endeavour.
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