Intuitive Eating and Fitness Update
At the beginning of the year I embraced Intuitive Eating. Some of you have asked what this is. To really understand you can check out the website of the original Intuitive Eating creators Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. For me this was about making peace with food. It is also about accepting my body and that I don't need to look a certain way to be healthy. The first principle of intuitive eating is to reject diet mentality. In order to do that, I decided to step away from the gym for a while. I also gave myself permission to eat whatever my body was asking for. In the beginning, I did really well with intuitive eating. I found my body was asking for a wide variety of food and I was feeling pretty good. In the month since I returned from my vacation I have travelled for work and been sick more than once. I have found that instead of figuring out what my body wanted, I would just eat so that I was no longer hungry. The thing is, when I do that, I'm never satisfied