I used to look forward to my “sugar days”. Dessert was everything to me. When I decided to add it to my every day, it lost its magic and I stopped overindulging ♥️ Thank you so much for this video 🥰
Since I've been watching your videos and I have started eating intuitively, I have become super aware of my body. My hunger and when I am full help me control my portions naturally, and I am not restricting any food. I have also noticed that I need way less food than I originally thought. When I was calorie counting I was aiming for 1500 a day and eating more like 2300 daily and really struggling. Now I do not count, I do not restrict but it seems like I am probably eating around 1700 - 1900 from what I can average. I am comfortable and my body feels full. Some days I do not want breakfast and some days I do. Some days I eat a snack at 3pm and other days I am full with a cup of tea. This lifestyle is what I've needed and I finally feel like food is not controlling me, my appetite is not controlling me. I feel satisfied.
Yes! I used to think I was addiction to sugar. But after I stopped restricting, I got to the point where I can have it around and enjoy it just when I want it. Sometimes I even pass it up- which is crazy to me. Like tonight I was eating a piece of pie, and half way through I wasn't really feeling it so I left it! I'm so happy to be able to do this (rather than feel like I have to finish the piece of pie cause I don't know the next time I'll get it).
Your content is so freeing!! You are liberating me of so much unnecessary guilt and fear surrounding eating. I'm well on my way to a healthy relationship with food, after years or disordered eating, and your videos have helped A LOT. Thank you :)
Ah, Colleen, every time you post one of these videos I can hear this little girl voice in my head saying, I can do that?! Then I take a breath and take in what you're saying and I feel the stress dropping away bit by bit because, YES, I can do this. Thank you!!
yes! Thank you for your thoughts on sugar addiction! I agree. I am actually a food addiction expert but I DON'T prescribe abstinence or restriction of any kind. I support my clients in getting free from what is driving them to food and sugar in the first place and once they get free from that, they are restored to a neutral and normal relationship with food and with sugar. Too many people toute quitting sugar or total abstinence as being the goal to have freedom from food. But in my opinion, all that does is make food and sugar BIGGER than us and keeps us afraid of falling off our plan. I love your attitude about all of this and I also completely agree with getting connected in our bodies and learning how to listen for what our bodies need. Thanks for what you do!
Oh I love love love this video!! Sugar is seen as an enemy but I love it! Sweet is always my choice. And if I do not restrict it, I want the savory too. Thank you so much! I am going to watch this video on replay for a while 😊
This was awesome! I usually crave something sweet also and it’s always made me (or rather my eating disorder) feel unhealthy! But been doing all the opposite action and having that ice cream, brownie, cookie butter, whatever! I’ve found I want something that’s a combo of sweet, salty, and crunchy. If it fits that, then I’m satisfied.
the other night i thought, i have cracked this intuative eating thing...there was some really nice cakes in my kitchen but i had such a craving for a juicy sweet apple and that was my sweet thing at night. come a long way from eating everything in the kitchen cupboards, it doesn't control me anymore.
Thank you so much for this. As a 54 year old woman, knee deep in menopause, I'm bombarded with advice on the importance of abstaining from all sweets. Trust me, I've tried. However, since following your advice and allowing myself a homemade chocolate dessert a day, those runaway cravings have calmed down. The fact that I use intermittent fasting (the 16:8) has allowed me to feel light while indulging my sweet tooth. Many thanks :)
So for me when I was restricting and in energy deficit, chocolate ,only , was my binge food. I could tell a binge was due shortly as I had a heightened awareness of chocolate in my surroundings. Since I have come out of energy deficit, I have zero cravings for chocolate. I feel nothing when I see it in the shops. I think the reason for the chocolate binges was that it is a very high energy density, low volume food which can deliver energy to the body very quickly with minimal effort. Yes, I agree it releases dopamine which is a pleasurable experience , but for me I hated binging so much, that I just wanted to get it over and done with , to make the urge go away.
I looved this video!! I dont eat any kind of dessert, even if I crave fruits, I prefer to eat them later.. but this video helps me to know that dessert is so normal and necessary for our bodies.. tysm!💖
Thanks Colleen it's a really helpful yet practical video I have had been through a situation where I was restricting myself from sugar but after watching your videos on intuitive eating..... I started eating more mindfully I let my body eat whatever it wants mindfully In starting it was hard because I ended up eating more sugar but it decreases gradually and naturally Now I don't crave for sugar anymore Now even 1-2 tbs of Icecream or 1 cookie is enough to satisfy my sugartooth and there are days when my body choose fruits over any desert I'm glad that now I can live without constantly thinking about food Thank you so much ❤️
So glad to know my daily dip into the ice cream container isn't necessarily a bad thing. I used to restrict it to "only on Friday nights/weekends" and would eat an entire pint in one sitting, which is too much and makes one quite uncomfortable. Now, a little bit each day and I'm satisfied and happy!
Love this video! And I’m so stoked for the challenge! I have a really hard time feeling physically hungry, so I always eat out of habit or after the clock, and I have a hard time stop eating when I’m full. So I’m really excited for the challenge, it couldn’t have come at a better time!☺️💗
I just finished a meta analysis on the negative effects of caloric restriction on physical health the other day and the Minnesota Starvation Experiment was one of my most used resources!!!
I do eat every sort of dessert including chocolate tarts , cakes and yes I do hit the gym every mrng for a 5 kms of cardio and other exercises and I do agree with u !
Yes for so long I didn’t eat dessert! I would make it for other people, but I refused to eat it myself. That only increased my desire to eat ALL the sugar in sight instead of being satisfied by just eating what my body craved.
Can you do a video on intuitive eating for athletes because sometimes I have to force myself to eat to make sure I can get enough calories in so my performance doesn't suffer. I want to eat intuitively but it just isn't enough.
Super great topic! Athletes tend to need to use more practical hunger because of how exercise can suppress hunger cues, this post might help! colleenchristensennutrition.com/practical-hunger-what-it-is-how-to-use-it/
Love your videos, both the content and how you put your videos together! Your message is right on point with my own weight loss/food journey, and I just love your energy! I just started making videos for my own career/life coaching consulting business and I would love to know what video editing program you are using. I love all the pop ups, sound effects, and how your text comes up and off the screen, if you don’t mind sharing. Thanks Colleen. Subscribed to your channel too late to sign up for your September challenge, but plan to catch the next one!
Love this. I'm new to this intuitive eating thing, and it's good to hear having a sweet tooth after dinner isn't bad. I'm trying to tune in and ask myself if I REALLY want a dessert or if it's just habit. Most of the time I think I really want it LOL 😂 anyway I'm trying to focus on saying "yes" more instead of falling back into a binge/restrict cycle. I'd really love to up my veggie game... I'm not one that's turned off by vegetables but I still find it difficult to get as much into my diet as I'd like to be in the habit of. Would you consider a video on this topic?
I totally didn’t restrict myself today, i ate everything that I wanted, all the dessert that I wanted but I can’t seem to stop. I even had a stomach ache and i kept eating and just now i had 3 ice creams 😛 btw, I stopped with my diet 1 months ago.
@@JC-li8kk it’s been over 9months that I went all in. And i feel good, i have no binges at all, I literally eat 3 meals a day (don’t crave for any snacks in between). I did gain a lot of weight (15kilos) but my weight has been plateaued so I think I will start losing weight in the future. How are you doing?
@@ananas346 Cool, thanks for the update. I’m doing good. I started doing one meal a day & cutting back on carbs. My one weakness is Dr Pepper, but the kind with cane sugar not HFCS. Hasn’t really caused me to gain weight though (prob because of the one meal a day). I wouldn’t say I’m restricting anything just cutting back on some foods & eating less often. Never been a huge dessert person.
Love your channel & I'm so excited for the upcoming challenge! Side note: do you mind me asking where you got the handles on your kitchen cabinets from? I've been looking for large ones like that for awhile now and haven't had much luck!
So is it okay for me to have a desert more than once a day? For lunch I had a small slice of cake and at night there was brownies so I had like half of it. Was that okay? Im feeling pretty guilty but idk is it okay to have it at least 2 times a day?
As an autistic person whose mother was a victim and proponent of diet culture and would ration and hide our candy, and have rules about not eating "dinner food for breakfast" (read: only let us have granola bars, low cal popcorn or told us to "wait for dinner) I used to sneakily binge eat the candy and lie that I didn't, or eat her croutons (delicious) as a small act of rebellion. I was proud of myself in the last few years that I was well-nourished and had good balance, finding foods that are both healthy for me and easy for me to eat with my sensory issues, now that I'm living with my father and have more independence. Half a year ago though, when I visited her house, I found myself falling into those same behaviours. I remember complaining to my partner that I was allowed to eat nothing, and had nothing nourishing that my brain would be *cool* with me eating anyways. Made me feel like shit, both morally for lying and physically (for binging sugar and barely eating anything else) I'm visiting her again in a couple weeks, and this time, I'm coming prepared. My own arsenal of healthy safe foods, with plenty of protein, fiber and meal options, (hummus, peanut butter, plain yogurt, banana pancakes, protein pasta, cheese, smoothie ingredients) and a good varied stash of sweets to keep myself from binging. I hope it works!
Amazing vid colleen I also eat dessert every night (and during the day) even if i am full, i always to have a bite of something sweet cause thats just what i like to do so thx for pointing that its okay SIDENOTE: I was wondering if u wld do a vid all about fibre. Cause i eat a lot of fibre and i dont struggle to get it in at all cause i eat a lots of fruit, veggies, oats, museli bars, whole grain bread every single day and almost always eat 30+g (sometimes even 40g) every day and dont know if that is good cause the information on the internet is very confusing and hard to find whats right and was interested from ur dietetic and personal POV :) ;)
I don’t have dessert EVERYDAY because then it just doesn’t feel special anymore..to me. I used to have dessert everyday, but now it just gets old. Teehee. Also, sometimes dinner is just so good I don’t want anything else to spoil it.
Omg I hope you see this and answer bc I really could use some guidance. I recovered from BE on sweets but how do I incorporate satisfying my sweet tooth and not over doing it is my next task. Colleen- I thought about eating sweets only once a week but then- RESTRICTING 😫 I'll start desperately waiting for that one day then it will turn to 2 days then every day! I also thought about eating a small pc of something sweet for lunch and or dinner like a small cookie or a fun size snickers etc. But I'm also afraid I'll then follow the same pattern can't wait to eat the pc of candy and end up eating more etc. As someone who loves sweets I'd hate to just give it up completely like some horrible sin! Why am I like this 😩 lol Any advise??? Thank you!
Hey there! These are all great questions! Thank you for taking the time to give me the deets! Here are a few resources that should help give you some guidance. The first one is about identifying and breaking food rules, colleenchristensennutrition.com/how-to-identify-and-break-food-rules/ The second resource is what to do after a binge. colleenchristensennutrition.com/moving-on-after-a-weekend-of-indulging/ I hope this information is helpful! Thank you so much for being here!❤
@ColleenChristensen hey! Thanks! I think I am getting a hang of it but am very early in the process. I broke BE about 9 months ago on sweets but it's been not sitting with me right that I haven't been eating healthy i.e I loved and "had to have" sweets so bad that I would eat them and then not eat an actual meal or "real food" to save calories ..recently I decided I can't go on like this it just mentally makes me feel wrong. So I'm on day 5 of having real meals thruout the day Choosing healthy items but also eating a slice of lasagna etc. A turkey sandwich with tomatoes on the side instead of chips like before I thought of im going to grab my chips bc that's what I do with a sandwich then I thought u know what I actually WANT tomatoes with it. I struggled to not have sweets after every meal and I know it's OK if I want to have them but I didn't want to but couldn't stop. For 5 days I chose not to! Didn't crave it didn't want it felt full ate when hungry didn't feel distress about wanting something else to eat. Today as my daughter was getting some cookies I randomly thought (I was also hungry, but I've been hungry before and didn't think to eat the cookies) I want to eat one of these then thought I shouldn't then thought break food rules, then ate the cookie, then thought oh I want another one ate the other one too. End of story and feel good abt it eating it now I won't think abt it all night and day tomorrow will prob not even eat anything sweet tomorrow because I won't want to. I am excited I am on a healthy path now there's no going back. Thank you I've watched so many videos of yours!
I keep these fun foods in the house, but I still go through episodes of binging on them. Some weeks I can have them in the house and it's fine, other times it's like I can't stop eating it. Why is this?
You're in recovery, girlfriend! Don't be too hard on yourself. Just keep allowing yourself what your body is asking for/craving and the binges will go away. You will realize that if you are ALWAYS allowed to have it, theres no need to do something that hurts your body! Love ya and wishing the best for you!!!
But what if I want to finish every meal with sweets and even have sweet snacks between these meals? I feel like it’s an addictive habit; it’s too much. What could I try to do? I’ll be grateful for anybody’s help😭❤️
