I come from a background of binge eating, so intuitive eating has caused me to lose weight. I obsess over food less and just eat when I'm hungry instead of when I'm sad.
I’m 3 weeks so far intuitive eating. I’m working out 5x week and I feel great. 3lbs down but I do lift. I used to be a calorie counter and got obsessive with it and was drastically losing weight and it finally killed me mentally and I binged like no other. Gained all my weight and plus more. So far intuitive eating is working great for me, mentally and physically.
@@AL-ib3mq are there any days you eat really bad, because I'll eat good for like 6 days and on the 7th I'll always eat for example like pizza do you have any tips while intuitive eating!!!!
Committing to never dieting again, and to never having food rules any more, is the most liberating thing in the world. I have no more anxiety about what I can and cannot eat and when and how much. And that allows me to actually listen to what I want and what my body and mind need, instead of what I better eat a ton of now because I can't have it once I'm being "good." It flips the whole script and allows me to focus on the rest of my life and not obsess over food. All kinds of good follows from that. I can relax and be calm around food because it doesn't have alarm bells all over it anymore. It's just food, stripped of the out-sized power it was never supposed to have, and does not actually have in reality.
In my experience, losing my weight is about feeling better, more active. Like you say, the body is smart and know where it feels more comfortable. Not so heavy and tired. I'm not too overweight, but my body is just not comfortable where it's at. 🤷🏽♀️
The first thing I did when I decided intuitive eating is my goal was slam dunk my scale in the trash. I definitely want to get slimmer, but that’s because I know my eating and exercise habits (or lack thereof) have caused me to gain weight. Eating intuitively and exercising regularly will help me lose weight even if I’m not thinking about the number. ☺️
You are right on target, Colleen. I spent DECADES in the prison of food rules, deprivation, and disordered eating. Keep posting vids. You have a valuable message and great delivery. Peace.
This is me right now.....I want to lose weight, I don't have a specific number, just want to be healthy and feel good. I am new to the intuitive eating and it's a strange balance.....
Yep I was there too. I totally feel you. I found a great way when I started to learn better my body type and how my metabolism works and everything after that started to click and my relationship with food got better and better
I’ve practiced intuitive eating for over a year. I love the freedom, the lack of food rules and obsessional it’s. I’ve gained weight and have embraced as best as I can by focusing on looking good at any weight. I do need to heed my doctors advice to lose weight to get my blood pressure under control, so your advice fits. I can be even more mindful as to what my body needs with sustainable good nutrition and movement. I know I will feel better with higher regular physical activity and less mindless snacking which I still do, and more home cooked meals. I will aim not to ever deprive myself but I look forward to feeling better and stronger.
I just want to feel comfortable in my own body. I want to feel active and vibrant. I feel that way when I get lighter. I feel that way after I work out. I think I have a healthy reason to loose weight. I'm at 72ish right now. I want to get to a weight thay achieves my goals.
I am doing intuitive eating because I have tried ww and Cronometer and when I did I got obsessed with it! Intuitive eating is amazing for me because I am actually listening to my body instead of my emotions. So happy to be on this journey
Ngl im really scared of going past and eating way too much.. because sometimes my body doesnt crave food/isnt hungry and i eat anyway but dont feel fatter and idk im just rlly scared of gaining back all the fat ive worked so hard to lose..
Thank you for this, it had been something I've struggled with. I'm shifting my perspective to my body feeling better, stronger, more able, more energy, as opposed to thinner. Thanks for tackling this, which I find is so often ignored when people discuss intuitive eating
This is really good - shifting focus to being healthier, stronger, more energetic, more active rather than thinner. I have always had the mindset that thinner had to come first and that was the focus.
I have been trying intuitive eating for two years. It has helped me to feel normal eating all food. I no longer restrict. After my pregnancy I feel uncomfortable in my body, I have aches and no energy. Also because of the no energy k would order a lot of food instead of cooking. I would even order in when I really didn't want to. So I set a challenge for myself to cook for two weeks instead of ordering in. I can still have pizza or a burger, but I just don't order it anymore. I also started playful exercise and I feel so much better. I am going to continue this.
I have lost weight intuitive eating. A bit slowly but still losing(2-3 lbs a month). And now I know that losing weight won't make my life better but I want to lose the weight I gained from binge eating. Also, is it normal to still have a bit of a food obsession? Like I cant stop thinking about food but I'll stop myself from eating until I'm actually hungry
I think its completely normal to still think about and want food even if you're not hungry. However, if you find you are really obsessing around food all the time, maybe think about why food is on your mind so often. For many people food is a coping mechanism or attached to certain emotions. That's also completely normal, but something we can be aware of.
I am 65 years old and have NEVER liked my weight. I was even in the Air Force and STILL felt hopeless and fat. Everything good I have ever done has been felt to be not good enough because I am fat. I think intuitive eating might be my savior.
It's NOT a marketing ploy. Statistics bear it out: just like taller men make more money, women with lower mass make more money. It's ridiculous to claim to a fat woman that losing weight will in fact not make her more attractive. In many cases, she has already experienced that she attracts more people when she's at a lower weight. Not to say this doesn't all suck, but please don't act like it's just advertising
This is such an interesting way to think about this topic. I need to lose weight because of chronic health conditions which affect me physically and also because people ask me too often if I'm pregnant (I am not) which is mentally draining. I am hoping your videos help me. Just started binging on your videos. 🙂
I think a lot of us wasted college years for various reasons. Don't feel too down about it. Youth is wasted on the young. And, as Zaphod's grandad said in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, life is wasted on the living lol 👻 Happy Halloween
It's been over a year of IE for me and the weight gain shot up and then I lost some of it- but I'm still over what feels healthy for me. I'm not sure if IE is really going to deliver feeling healthy, seems like the advice is to shift mindset and embrace weight gain
Different things work for different people. Not everyone is going to lose weight for one not everyone who wants to lose weight is overweight. I think the reason it's been helpful to so many people is because a lot of people experience weight gain because of an unhealthy relationship to food. If your weight is not at a healthy level for you, addressing the root of the problem is important. IE does this for a lot of people.
I'm home from college now for a week. In the term away at college I've lost about 2kgs,healthily. I've been home 3 days and already feel myself gaining. I overeat so often and then have headaches and stomach aches and it's a super negative environment at home. Can't wait to go back to college where I can live comfortably and feel good in my soul and body.....
They say “put weight loss on the back burner,” but that doesn’t mean it’s not still on the stove. I used to think the phrase meant that I shouldn’t want to lose weight, but I realized I can still want to lose weight. It’s just not primary. Right now I’m working on the permission to eat (or NOT eat) and that opens more atunememt to my body. I didn’t get this before. But I think I needed another to at dieting (albeit not too hard) to see this.
I want to be good at hiking up mountains, climbing, and bouldering. Those activities are all about hucking my body (and it's weight) against gravity. Being stronger and a lighter weight are both beneficial. I feel encouraged to gain muscle with IE, but am I encouraged to lose the weight or not? I have a goal which is served by it, but will IE help me?
It is not true that everyone who diets or restricts in order to lose weight will eventually binge. Some people with eating disorders go through this but it is not a given that everyone does this. Also it is a fact that being overweight can cause health problems.
Eh... I'm not sure what a happy body feels like. I can't relate to the idea of my body feeling unhappy. My body feels fine. I am not happy with the visual. My doctor is not happy with the internal. My body has no emotions about the situation...
I'm new to this intuititve eating and I'm heavier now that I have been in the last ten years. I was an obese teenager and am really afraid that I'm heading back there. I look at the fotos from back then and how I look in the mirror right now and just want to cry. I definitely don't feel good in my body either. I feel fine while eating but afterwards and especially at night I just feel soooo freaking heavy. And then I get back up and feel like I want to eat again.... I really hope this will even itself out. I'm rereading the Intuitive eating book right now, maybe that'll help.
I feel like it's easy to say as someone at a healthy weight. I'm medically obese, i dont restrict or binge but i stay at this weight. I lost some in the past with calorie counting but gained half of it back after stopping. I dont want to count calories again.
Hey Friend! Weight is NOT and indicator of health. Here's some info on health at every size, and set point weight that will shed some more light on this for you. ❤ colleenchristensennutrition.com/haes-explained/ colleenchristensennutrition.com/is-intuitive-eating-healthy/ colleenchristensennutrition.com/what-is-a-set-point-weight/
Try eating nutrient dense food instead of calorie dense food. Also, don’t eat until you feel stuffed. Eat until you feel satisfied and stick to the proper proportion sizes
My problem with this notion though is that every time I go to the doctor they tell me I need to lose weight or when I got pregnant I was high risk. I'm tried of feeling like that
What are you talking about? I was a chubby kid growing up. I got too fat for comfort (size 38) and wanted to lose weight and I did (size 30). I was driven, had goals and used my motivation to enjoy the process during the long term. It wasn’t over night but i sped up my metabolism and gained muscle. You’re saying that I should have just accepted my size and maybe lose weight, maybe not?
Colleen, I love the "happy weight" concept. You're right. The focus on numbers never leads to happiness. I have a friend whose said, "I just have like 10 pounds to lose." Why? Is it bc of the culture or bc she's uncomfy with her body. Check out Embrace doc. I'm working towards my happy weight for the reasons you mentioned and bc I want to have energy to hike with my family, dance with no limits...
I’m doing well with not bingeing but I have one of my biggest trigger foods in the house!!!! Ruffles potato chips. I’ve been eating them daily and not bingeing, but I always have to give the leftovers to my dog so I don’t eat the rest :/ I don’t know how to leave them on my plate without completely getting rid of them
I am currently looking into intuitive eating and your videos are very helpful. I also have a question and maybe you have already answered that but how can I combine working out and eating intuitive, so that I don't feel like I am working out to earn my food. Do you have tips on that? Or just in general on combining the two
Try to find a workout that is fun for you, one that you‘re doing because you enjoy it and because it gives your body energy and strength. Dont associate working out only with losing weight. I have found that I love to dance when I‘m home alone, just feeling the music and dance my heart out. It is so much fun and doesnt feel like exercise, but when I check my fitness watch I can see that my heart rate is really elevated so it must be a workout 🤷🏻♀️ I also stop whenever I need a break. I dont watch workout videos because it can get you down when you need breaks while they keep going. Also I bought a treadmill and have found that again I need music to have fun on it. I move my whole body to the music while walking at a faster pace, and I can go for 60 mins without it feeling hard, while my heartrate is actually in the upper ranges. Long story short, try to find something that you enjoy, otherwise you wont want to stick to it. Just walking outside for 45-60 Mins each day is enough of a workout!
The concept of "earning" food kind of goes against intuitive eating. You deserve to feel nourished. It's something that I could see turning into a "well I didn't do good with my workout today so I shouldn't eat as much. I think the commenter above put it really well. Find a workout that works for you and try not to relate it to eating.
If you use any sort of calorie burn tracking device please ditch it. I think those make us focus on how much we burn not how we feel and they are probably wrong anyway.
What if we are very obese. I'm like 70kg above the healthy point for my body with my muscle and sketel structure. Medical advise for me is to lose weight. I don't have a choice to lose weight I have to so I can reduce symptoms of my autoimmune disease but I want to do intuitive eating. So I'm so confused on what to do. Because no matter what I do with Intuitive eating it's always going to be on my mind that I need to lose weight. It's just so confusing... How do I understand what my body feels like?
Very informative...but how do you suggest losing weight and eating intuitively? I'm about 50lbs above my happy weight. I want to not have achy knees, I want my BP to be lower and I know these 50lbs are a big part of the problem. How to actually lose weight without diet rules? This is such a struggle right now. I LOVE eating intuitively and I haven't gained any weight so I KNOW this is the best way to eat...but my body is too heavy.
What does it mean if I hardly ever feel hungry after starting intuitive eating? I've been an emotional eater for 4 years and usually ate too much and too fast, past the point of fullness. Now I only try to eat when I'm hungry but the point is... I almost never am.
My question is!!! What happens when you don’t get hungry at all like for me I get hungry in the morning and at night time and that’s it! And I am tired of dieting
I'm 170 cm tall and my weight is 50 kg and I'm a 19 year old girl. I lost a lot of fat unintentionally and I felt awesome in my body but now I'm gaining weight because I've started to eat more but I feel miserable when I restrict. What do I do?
Shell Lee losing weight isn't always what's "healthy" for someone. an underweight person who doesn't eat a nutritionally rich diet wanting to lose weight is not the "healthy" option for them. many people who struggle with disordered eating "want" to lose weight even when they are dangerously thin, sometimes on the verge of death.
I’m 92 lbs I dont think I need to lose weight but my anorexia nervosa tells me I do.. theirs many people that don’t need to lose weight.. and from my experience I actually weigh less and my weight stops fluctuating when I don’t starve 🤷🏻♀️
@@angelhellokitti you're right you don't need to lose weight but you don't need intuitive eating either. You need a qualified health care professional. Hope you get the help you need 🙏
@@michellelee6306 It's presumptuous to assume a professional wouldn't tell them to use intuitive eating as a practice. It's actually a tool used for eating disorders.
@@mywrath I never said a professional wouldn't tell someone to use intuitive eating. I said "wanting to lose weight is a desire to be healthy and confident." Its presumptuous to respond with a snide comment when you clear didn't read the post. .God, I hate internet trolls! Get a life!
hi colleen! i am underweight as of now but i have never felt better when it comes to energy and mental health. is that fine? i am healthy in every other sense but my bmi is a bit lower than usual
i have to lose weight to join the air force and i dont want my ed to get worse so i want to do IE. this kinda made me feel that you shouldnt lose weight...
It's still surprise me just how a number of people don't know about Okibetonic Secrets even though many people using it. Thanks to my personal mate who told me about this. I have lost lots of fat.
I just feel like there’s a lot more people out there that want to lose weight but won’t be able to do it by intuitively eating. You just have to keep track of what you eat & the calories.
Antisocial Butterfly understand your point of view. The clients that I work with struggle with disordered eating and counting calories innocently at first can spiral into an eating disorder- like it did for me
