Episode 58: Is it wrong to eat if I'm not hungry?
Is it wrong to eat if I’m not hungry?
Did you know there are other forms of hunger other than physical hunger? Did you also know there is no reason for us to feel like we're doing something wrong if we eat when we're not physically hungry?
A discussion on hunger came up in my private Facebook support group, the Intuitive Eating and Body Compassion Community. Many times chronic dieters and disordered eaters want to follow intuitive eating "perfectly". They end up fearing that if they are eating when not hungry they must not be listening to their body and doing something wrong.
Check out this week's episode where I explain the different reasons we eat and why eating outside of physical hunger is not necessarily "bad" or "wrong".
Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 55: Unapologetic Eating with Alissa Rumsey
Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition, by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
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#1 - examining your personal history with dieting
#2 - reflecting on how diets interfered with your life
#3 - how to slowly get rid of dieting tools you may still use.
#4 - identifying hidden forms of dieting you may still engage in but don’t realize you are and how it interferes with your work to become more intuitive.
#5 - a worksheet on how to stop the self-critical talk.
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