In this episode, Liv and Tiffany share their experiences with finding Intuitive Eating. Diving deeper, we look at the barriers to Intuitive Eating and how to get started. 

Barriers: 

• Diet culture
• Rigid food rules growing up
• Poor modeling around food
• Parents who dieted
• Shaming messages
• Negative body image
• Childhood trauma
• Mental health conditions: depression, anxiety, PTSD
• Pain

Getting started with IE:

• Reject diet culture, food “shoulds,” judgement and shame
• Celebrate awareness
• Honor your body, focus on body attunement
• Honor your hunger — IE encourages you to eat food, and experience fullness and satisfaction
• Body acceptance/respect (gratitude for our body, self-care, body comparison, self criticism)
• Honoring feelings without using food (how do I feel, what do I need?)
• Honoring your health: gentle nutrition, exercise because it feels good

These are our bellworthy and noteworthy resources:

The Ten Principles of Intuitive Eating: 

https://www.intuitiveeating.org/10-principles-of-intuitive-eating/

Coach Tiffany’s self-paced Intuitive Eating course:https://www.coachtiffanyrn.com/course.html

Grab Coach Tiffany’s hunger scale here:

https://www.coachtiffanyrn.com/hunger-scale-opt-in.html

Harvard’s take on the ACE test: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/media-coverage/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean/

Article: What Cookies and Meth Have in Common: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/sunday/what-cookies-and-meth-have-in-common.html

Books to check out: 

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND

The Body Keeps the Score by Gabor Mate 

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