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Sophomore Bella Lunt enjoys a plate of dinner at La Jolla Groves. She said she used to have anxiety around food, but a BYU class helped her heal her relationship with food and find joy in eating. (Bella Lunt)
BYU psychology major Bella Lunt spent years trapped in a restrictive relationship. It gave her a lot of anxiety and she struggled to find a healthy solution. Ending the relationship wasn’t an option, because she couldn’t live without it.
Her toxic relationship was with food. “I was attempting to recover from an eating disorder, but still had extremely disordered eating,” she said.
Ways Intuitive Eating Can Help You Lose Weight, Say Dietitians
Ways Intuitive Eating Can Help You Lose Weight, Say Dietitians
To say that Intuitive Eating is a way to lose weight is a bit of an oxymoron. This eating practice originally comes from the book
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, and it encourages each person to focus less on dieting and focus more on their body s hunger and fullness signals. It requires complete honesty of your body s needs around when you re actually hungry to eat and when you are not. The program was written to be a solution in helping chronic dieters free themselves from restrictive eating practices and learn how to actually nourish their bodies by making peace with food.
Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A., has been in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, as a nutrition therapist for over twenty years, specializing in.
Intuitive eating is having a moment. A reaction against the more restrictive diet culture, more and more registered dietitians are advising their clients to use intuitive eating as a strategy to reach their goal weight and stay there. It will not only be more effective than restrictive food rules based dieting but allow you to enjoy food more and know that by following a few simple guidelines, you can stop battling your cravings, eat healthier food (which when you start to enjoy, you want more and more of for the way it makes you feel) and have a healthier relationship with your body, your food and yourself.