Are you eating what you want and when you want to? Or are you obsessed with every meal you have and feel guilt after consuming a “cheat meal”? In a world where restrictive diets have become all too common, a new trend is catching on which helps forge a healthier relationship between food and body. Intuitive eating is becoming popular among social media users, with videos on the approach generating billions of views on TikTok. But what is it? Let’s find out.
What is intuitive eating? Intuitive eating is a practice that encourages listening to one’s body and eating accordingly. Basically, you eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. According to Whitney Linsenmeyer, assistant professor of nutrition at Saint Louis University and a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, intuitive eating “focuses on a person’s internal hunger and satiety cues”, reported The Guardian.
The eating style helps in creating a “healthy attitude” toward food and body image, as per Healthline. Intuitive eating is not a diet even if it is sometimes packaged as one. In fact, it works against the diet culture.
“Hunger-fullness diet is an extension of intuitive eating. I wouldn’t call it a diet, but it’s a way of eating. In this case, you don’t measure out the amount of food to eat or decide on a specific quantity.
Instead, you go with your gut feeling and eat according to the hunger you are experiencing. The important point here is that you should be hung.
