✨ Honor your body, sis ✨

Have you heard? You don't have to mold to a way of eating that just seriously doesn't feel right to your body. This is called using your intuition. 🙏🏼

As someone who teaches an eating pattern for longevity and chronic disease prevention, I am super aware that making dietary changes is one of the hardest things for the human race to do: especially in today's society.

Imagine if you didn't see skinny supermodels/insta photoshop women, meal replacement shakes left & right, fast food joints at every corner, commercials/advertising for subsidized junk, restaurant menus full of processed/high sodium inflammatory inducing and addicting combinations.

Subconsciously, all of this nonsense gets engrained in our brain as though they are normal.

Without all of this extra societal influence and industrialization, we would still be eating real whole food and think nothing of it. We would also not be fearing a lack of specific macronutrients (cough... protein) like I see so often.

So now we've coined intuitive eating as a way to navigate diet culture without stress. Here's my tips to get back to your long-term goals with your health for how to eat using your intuition:

1) Honor your hunger. If you're hungry, eat an apple or have a snack. Just because someone else isn't hungry or eat as much as you doesn't mean you have to starve. And just because someone else is eating doesn't mean you have to

2) Say no to the internal food police. If you ate the cupcake, don't knock yourself down. Same goes for if you have a plate full of fruit & veggies while everyone else is eating a burger. You do you, boo.

3) After a meal is over, sit with yourself for a minute. Asses how you are feeling. Tired, heavy, light, energized? Tap into those body signals. Your body knows it's ideal energy source: it knows ultra processed vs natural foods. It will respond accordingly.

4) Learn to recognize hunger & address it before you end up ravenous at the drive through because you didn't nurture your bod in time. Keep some dried fruit/nuts in the car for times that you need a little energy boost to keep you from overeating later.

Hope this helps you! ✌🏼

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