Great video - thanks for all your hard work. I am rather wary of Intuitive Eating. I was treated as an out-patient at my local hospital for a few years for my binge eating disorder. Myself and my fellow ED patients were all warned off Intuitive Eating. I think the psychiatrists there were concerned about how we would interpret the lessons. All of us had suffered from our eating disorders for decades. I began with anorexia but after 15 years of that and a brief dalliance with bulimia I ended up with binge eating disorder. I am not in contact with my body - we haven't spoken in decades. I have no intuition about what is going on in my body and my relationship to both food and to myself is chaotic and toxic. I am intrigued by the ideas behind Intuitive Eating but am horrified by the warning that I should expect weight gain if I try it out. I am already 20 stone overweight; I can barely move, I live in permanent pain and I isolate because I'm so ashamed of my monstrosity. I don't know how I'd even begin to trust the process. I am almost at the end of the road with my restrict / binge pattern. All my diets end up in restriction which means days of fasting followed by amazement about how hungry I am. It is insane. I'll look at some of your other videos about this because it feels like the way to find peace but the idea of getting even bigger is probably too off-putting. You always provide food for thought. Sorry for being a bore.
@surcitta I’m so sorry that your ED has caused you so much suffering. I’m glad you’re still looking for hope. Sarah’s videos can definitely be challenging at times, and I’m not always 100% on board, but I have found the talks very helpful as well. I don’t think you should apologise for sharing. It sounds like you feel guilt over simply being present in a space (I know the feeling), but it’s not wrong for you to be here, or to share. This is an ED channel, after all! It’s a place people come to share their experiences.
You are absolutely not being a bore ❤️ Many people think IE is about eating when you’re hungry and stopping when you’re full so if your hunger cues are all over the place then that probably won’t be possible. The authors do talk about this and like most treatment plans recommend regular eating regardless of whether you feel hunger. Getting into a rhythm with food is what helps to regulate hunger signals. All the principles tie in with this. Honour your hunger is about not allowing yourself to go hungry and feel your fullness doesn’t mean you have to stop as soon as your full, but rather practice being more connected to your fullness and over time this can start to have a moderating effect (when practiced with other principles like respect you body and treat your emotions with kindness). I didn’t gain weight with intuitive eating and I know many others who didn’t as well. Some people gain, some stay the same and some people do lose. I have this video where I answered a question from a viewer about ‘needing’ to lose weight because of their size. It might be helpful to you: ruclips.net/video/XT9CnvmXmTc/видео.htmlsi=8sXR8Vpg2X-Aojhf
@@TheBingeEatingTherapist Thank you for replying. It's helpful to have this extra perspective on Intuitive Eating. I'll have a look at the video you've linked because I do have a sense that Intuitive Eating is the way forward for me.
Your channel is so helpful. I’ve been dealing with binge eating for so long, and it’s a very internal and invisible struggle. Your videos really help me feel less alone a remind me to treat myself with kindness.
I love your work, thank you!! I'm a Dr and you and Stephanie give me a lot of food for thought about how to think about health and weight, and how to convey a non-diet message to patients when the topic comes up.
What helps me is to use a timer on my cell phone so I can eat more slowly at work. At home it is very difficult for me to eat without watching television. Eating alone makes me very anxious and I end up eating very quickly. Then I realized that I should not only do it with my lunch and dinner, but also with some healthy snack. Otherwise I have no idea how fast I eat.
Thank you for your video (and all the others you made). What you shared really helped me with intuitive eating, especially that part about REALLY giving myself a mental and emotional permission to eat (rather than eating with "permission" and then feeling guilty about eating "bad" foods). You're completely right, it's the nuances that matter, and taking in only these parts that work for me. So again, thank you 😊
I have to lose weight for numerous health reasons. Numerous specialists have suggested it. Even recently found out my heart weighs slightly more than normal which can potentially be reversed through weight loss. No guarantee, though I'd rather do something, than do nothing. Though I'm going through perimenopause as well, realizing why so many gain weight during this time. Rapid cycling and lots of menstrual cycle hyperphagia, that stops as soon as my period starts. Intuitive eating helped me lose 10 lbs some years ago and keep it off without thinking or trying, though as my cycles have started getting shorter, that doesn't seem possible anymore. This is an infuriatingly helpless place to be in. Knowing weight loss would alleviate a number of physiological health problems I have, though counting calories and restriction doesn't seem to help either when you have a bingeing problem, granted mine coincides with the luteal phase every time; I recognize part of this is even psychological for me, even if cyclical. I don't have faith enough to just try intuitive eating again and potentially not lose the weight I need to for my overall health.
I would really love to watch this as I feel like I'm definitely at this point after 3 years of 'trying on and off' but my adhd brain isn't playing ball today! And annoyingly I feel my adhd makes it seem impossible to live 'intuitively ' where interception sense is really under sensitive! So makes it even more difficult to learn hunger ques! I'll come back when having better brain day. 💗
There are extra challenges that someone with ADHD is likely to face adhd.nutritionist and eatingwithadhd are both great Instagram accounts to check out ❤
I had the book at one time but thought I was too impulsive and compulsive to be successful. I trust you, so I'll give it another try. I think a course would work well for me.
This is more helpful than almost anything else I've seen! I have the Intuitive Eating audio book and I've gotten almost all the way through but it's a struggle because I find the reader's voice and tone extremely condescending and sets off all my resistance. (Sorry Hilary Huber ❤ you're a really good reader but not for me, with this material). I'm going to go find that Evelyn Tribole interview right now and listen before my BED recovery therapy session this afternoon.
My wins with IE include dissociating my self-worth from my body size or how I look. There are some arms of the IE community that I’m apprehensive about, or too “woke.” But I can say that I’ve benefitted from the body positive movement in its initial stages and helped me accept where I am right now. When “permission to eat” got to be overwhelming and feeling boundless, it actually HELPED me to remember that hunger/fullness and gentle nutrition are still part of the picture.
Hi! I have been following you for so long and you are helping me so much on my journey! Thank you, more than you know. I come to your videos when I feel in crisis. 'm so so thankful for your videos and how you deliver them you seem so kind and genuine. I was wondering, I think that one of my biggest issues right now is letting go of my weight loss dream and hope of achieving it. How can I work more on that? It's so hard to let go of. The other thing I was curious about is how to better tell hunger and fullness cues? I feel like most of the time I don't notice hunger in my stomach but more in my head. But then I feel like I should also feel it in my stomach right? I don't trust my hunger cues fully because I don't often feel it in my stomach. Also, fullness cues. Sometimes I don't know what exactly fullness feels like...Sorry I know these are a lot of questions no pressure to answer I just thought it wouldn't hurt to ask! Anyway, I again am so so grateful for you!!!! You help me more than you know!!!! I so appreciate your videos and advice and lessons!!!!!
In terms of letting go of weight loss, if we accept that there is a part of us that may never want to let it go then our job changes to, how to I manage this part of me that wants to lose weight so that it doesn’t continually affect my wellbeing? Reframing this means you no longer have to waste emotional energy battling with yourself. A lot of the time this looks like just making a decision for now. I have a whole playlist about this topic ruclips.net/p/PL-0iL93mU_TSIAWOv0XdtNW4dlNceqwQE&si=Z6e5cjAXgnsmGfXa Not feeling hunger in your stomach is surprisingly common. There are different types of hunger and if your interoception (capacity to feel/interpret body signals) is low then you may not experience pangs in your stomach. There are a whole cascade of biochemical processes that drive hunger and we often experience these as just feeling like we need to eat. Ghrelin (one of the hunger hormones) learns your eating patterns and times. If you eat your meals at similar times a day this really helps biologically with regulating your appetite and this effect t can been seen in around 2 weeks. Fullness and satisfaction are not the same. You can be full and not satisfied and satisfied but not full. Regular eating also helps with satiation. When we restrict, our brains dial down that feeling of satisfaction which leads us to eat more and explains a lot of bingeing. I also have a playlist about appetite regulation. If you understand more about how your appetite works, you may be able to improve your self regulation even if your interoceptive awareness doesn’t change ruclips.net/p/PL-0iL93mU_TSGEVMaxBE-S0yn2bShlPCs&si=wTH3MFHbx1kk4fv4
I wish I could let go of wanting to make my body smaller, and therefore more attractive in my view, but I carry around this belief that everyone should strive to be slim, and they (and I) could be so if they tried hard enough. Intellectually, I know this statement is absurd, yet I still cling to it. Any advice? Thank you.
That part is an older part of you. You say you know this belief to be absurd. That is the here-and-now you. We have different parts that can believe different things. That old part may be so deep in your psyche that she cannot be weeded out, so I would offer that having compassion for those old beliefs (while reminding yourself of what you choose to believe now) will calm some of its emotional power over you ❤️ It’s ok that it exists. It’s not you anymore
@@TheBingeEatingTherapistThank you for taking the time to answer me. I’m curious how you and others manage those conflicting thoughts and voices with minimal distress.
Where do I find the 10 principles ? Do you have it on one of your videos ? Btw I appreciate you and your work. It’s new to me, I want to stop dieting and learn this technique. I’ve seen many of your videos and you have already taught me a lot. Thank you Diane
I did this video a LONG time ago. It was one of my first so not the best delivery: ruclips.net/video/KCCsrRmq2u8/видео.htmlsi=IGJ3iR8IZlwNjjFu Otherwise there are loads of podcasts and other YT videos that cover it ❤️
You mention there’s 10 rules or something for intuitive eating and that you made a video on this but I can’t find it. Could you share the link pls? I didn’t notice in the notes below the video. Thank you for all these videos btw!
I still think it's a physical disorder and that's where we need to look. The emotional aspect is just diet 101. Why can't doctors find out why so many people don't feel full and want tasty food? You wouldn't think it would be that difficult.
It’s very hard to separate the physical from the psychological and these two are inextricably linked. There is a study which showed people’s ghrelin (hunger hormone) responded to the amount of food they thought they had eaten, not the amount they actually had. Our belief systems are entwined with our biology, which is part of what makes understanding this problem so incredibly challenging
Hi Sarah, I have a sweet tooth and if I don't control it I could eat sweets all day every day. Is it OK to give myself permission to say eat the sweet treat after lunch but not dinner? I find my bingeing mostly happens in the evening...
Go ahead and try if you feel you want to. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. I just know that in my bingeing days I could’ve set that rule, but it would probably only have made the urge for something sweet after dinner even greater just because I wasn’t allowed.
I've read the IE book 4 times. I understand it and did after the first time reading it but understanding it and putting it in to practice is whole different ball game. I've been trying on/off for 1.5 years and I still cant put it into practice for longer than 3 or 4 weeks. I'm beginning to wonder if IE is really for me.
I'm a bit fan of taking what works and making it your own. There may be some of the principles of IE that work really well for you and can be practiced without having to take on the whole framework. For me, it's important to feel like I have created something that works for me, so you could create your own principles that might include some from IE and some that are tweaked depending on what you believe works for you. It's also a big challenge to implement on your own without support. Especially if you are working on undoing years of disordered eating ❤🩹
Sadly, I intuitively eat very unhealthy food, very restricted food groups, absolutely no fruit (I just hate it) and loads of carbs (white bread). It’s not working for me.
One of the principles of intuitive eating is gentle nutrition so you can be intentional about adding in certain foods for nutritional benefit even if you aren’t automatically drawn to them (I wouldn’t suggest adding in food you hate though). This is one of the places where intuitive eating is often misunderstood.
There are many reasons why this might be: history of restriction, tension around carbs/sugar due to previous experiences of losing control, beliefs and anticipation, not eating enough variety, trying to limit carbs, hormonal influences (PCOS, insulin resistance, metabolic issues), trauma where food has been used to cope or feel safe, impulsivity. I have a whole playlist on appetite regulation that might be helpful to you. I’ll grab the link….
I’m so sorry! I didn’t think I had any outstanding messages I haven’t replied to, but I just went into my mailbox and searched for the name Alice as it’s part of your YT name and found one from 31st July which I assume is you. I’m sorry to keep you waiting I will get onto that and reply to you 🙏🏻
Hmmm. Good question. The annoying answer is, it depends. I personally don’t see intuitive eating as a place you arrive at, but rather a practice. There are times when I am less intuitive than others. As someone who has recovered from bulimia and BED, I think I will always carry a vulnerability to becoming dysregulated with food and returning to intuitive eating principles allows me to come back to balance very quickly. How long it takes to feel secure in intuitive eating might be a more accurate question and this will depend on history of restriction, emotional regulation, levels of compassion and curiosity (which really help speed up the process). Many people stop and start a bit with intuitive eating so that would also elongate the process.
V interesting. Im reading the Intuitive eating book at mo. Not had a binge in 2 weeks so that's a positive. I'd be interested in doing course. Today at coffee after gym the ladies were discussing their various diets they on. Help..... how do I handle such conversations?
@TheBingeEatingTherapist I did listen but found it difficult still to know what to do. Someone said to me on Thursday I should lose weight. I'm really trying not to restrict.
@@magsB2210 Ah, I may have misunderstood you. I thought you were asking how to respond to the comments rather than what you should do from a diet/not dieting perspective. It's hard when you have different voices all saying you should be doing different things. My content is simply meant to be thought provoking so that people can make the decision they think is best for themselves ❤
@TheBingeEatingTherapist thank you. You didn't mis understand me. I have a million questions going on in my busy head. Thank you for Yr videos. They do help
I wish I could let go of wanting to make my body smaller, and therefore more attractive in my view, but I carry around this belief that everyone should strive to be slim, and they (and I) could be so if they tried hard enough. Intellectually, I know this statement is absurd, yet I still cling to it. Any advice? Thank you.
Tickets for Your Intuitive Eating Blueprint course are now available: thebingeeatingtherapist.com/intuitive-eating-course/
Great video - thanks for all your hard work. I am rather wary of Intuitive Eating. I was treated as an out-patient at my local hospital for a few years for my binge eating disorder. Myself and my fellow ED patients were all warned off Intuitive Eating. I think the psychiatrists there were concerned about how we would interpret the lessons. All of us had suffered from our eating disorders for decades. I began with anorexia but after 15 years of that and a brief dalliance with bulimia I ended up with binge eating disorder. I am not in contact with my body - we haven't spoken in decades. I have no intuition about what is going on in my body and my relationship to both food and to myself is chaotic and toxic. I am intrigued by the ideas behind Intuitive Eating but am horrified by the warning that I should expect weight gain if I try it out. I am already 20 stone overweight; I can barely move, I live in permanent pain and I isolate because I'm so ashamed of my monstrosity. I don't know how I'd even begin to trust the process. I am almost at the end of the road with my restrict / binge pattern. All my diets end up in restriction which means days of fasting followed by amazement about how hungry I am. It is insane. I'll look at some of your other videos about this because it feels like the way to find peace but the idea of getting even bigger is probably too off-putting. You always provide food for thought. Sorry for being a bore.
@surcitta I’m so sorry that your ED has caused you so much suffering. I’m glad you’re still looking for hope. Sarah’s videos can definitely be challenging at times, and I’m not always 100% on board, but I have found the talks very helpful as well. I don’t think you should apologise for sharing. It sounds like you feel guilt over simply being present in a space (I know the feeling), but it’s not wrong for you to be here, or to share. This is an ED channel, after all! It’s a place people come to share their experiences.
You are absolutely not being a bore ❤️ Many people think IE is about eating when you’re hungry and stopping when you’re full so if your hunger cues are all over the place then that probably won’t be possible. The authors do talk about this and like most treatment plans recommend regular eating regardless of whether you feel hunger.
Getting into a rhythm with food is what helps to regulate hunger signals. All the principles tie in with this. Honour your hunger is about not allowing yourself to go hungry and feel your fullness doesn’t mean you have to stop as soon as your full, but rather practice being more connected to your fullness and over time this can start to have a moderating effect (when practiced with other principles like respect you body and treat your emotions with kindness).
I didn’t gain weight with intuitive eating and I know many others who didn’t as well. Some people gain, some stay the same and some people do lose.
I have this video where I answered a question from a viewer about ‘needing’ to lose weight because of their size. It might be helpful to you: ruclips.net/video/XT9CnvmXmTc/видео.htmlsi=8sXR8Vpg2X-Aojhf
@@iolairmuinnmalachybromham3103 Thank you for your kind words.
@@TheBingeEatingTherapist Thank you for replying. It's helpful to have this extra perspective on Intuitive Eating. I'll have a look at the video you've linked because I do have a sense that Intuitive Eating is the way forward for me.
@@iolairmuinnmalachybromham3103 Thank you for your kind words.
Finding you and your book (and audio book on here!) has been life changing. I am not exaggerating. Thank you so much.
Excellent video and I LOVE your t shirt. Thank you Sarah. Your channel is so wonderful ❤
Your channel is so helpful. I’ve been dealing with binge eating for so long, and it’s a very internal and invisible struggle. Your videos really help me feel less alone a remind me to treat myself with kindness.
I love your work, thank you!! I'm a Dr and you and Stephanie give me a lot of food for thought about how to think about health and weight, and how to convey a non-diet message to patients when the topic comes up.
Thank you for being a compassionate voice in teh medical field ❤
What helps me is to use a timer on my cell phone so I can eat more slowly at work. At home it is very difficult for me to eat without watching television. Eating alone makes me very anxious and I end up eating very quickly. Then I realized that I should not only do it with my lunch and dinner, but also with some healthy snack. Otherwise I have no idea how fast I eat.
Thank you for your video (and all the others you made). What you shared really helped me with intuitive eating, especially that part about REALLY giving myself a mental and emotional permission to eat (rather than eating with "permission" and then feeling guilty about eating "bad" foods). You're completely right, it's the nuances that matter, and taking in only these parts that work for me. So again, thank you 😊
You are just amazing.. everything you said makes perfect sense.. effortless mastery (or feels this way)
Thank you for a new video! i've been waiting!
I have to lose weight for numerous health reasons. Numerous specialists have suggested it. Even recently found out my heart weighs slightly more than normal which can potentially be reversed through weight loss. No guarantee, though I'd rather do something, than do nothing. Though I'm going through perimenopause as well, realizing why so many gain weight during this time. Rapid cycling and lots of menstrual cycle hyperphagia, that stops as soon as my period starts. Intuitive eating helped me lose 10 lbs some years ago and keep it off without thinking or trying, though as my cycles have started getting shorter, that doesn't seem possible anymore. This is an infuriatingly helpless place to be in. Knowing weight loss would alleviate a number of physiological health problems I have, though counting calories and restriction doesn't seem to help either when you have a bingeing problem, granted mine coincides with the luteal phase every time; I recognize part of this is even psychological for me, even if cyclical. I don't have faith enough to just try intuitive eating again and potentially not lose the weight I need to for my overall health.
I would really love to watch this as I feel like I'm definitely at this point after 3 years of 'trying on and off' but my adhd brain isn't playing ball today! And annoyingly I feel my adhd makes it seem impossible to live 'intuitively ' where interception sense is really under sensitive! So makes it even more difficult to learn hunger ques! I'll come back when having better brain day. 💗
There are extra challenges that someone with ADHD is likely to face adhd.nutritionist and eatingwithadhd are both great Instagram accounts to check out ❤
@TheBingeEatingTherapist yes they were first I found 💗
I really needed to hear this today.
OMG! This sounds harder than dieting!!
I had the book at one time but thought I was too impulsive and compulsive to be successful. I trust you, so I'll give it another try. I think a course would work well for me.
If the book feels a bit heavy you could search Evelyn Tribole in the podcast app and listen to some of her interviews
Tickets for my course have just gone up today if you're interested: thebingeeatingtherapist.com/intuitive-eating-course/
I'm new to this. I did 3 months on weight watchers and have now cancelled as I can't do that again. I will do some research
This is more helpful than almost anything else I've seen! I have the Intuitive Eating audio book and I've gotten almost all the way through but it's a struggle because I find the reader's voice and tone extremely condescending and sets off all my resistance. (Sorry Hilary Huber ❤ you're a really good reader but not for me, with this material). I'm going to go find that Evelyn Tribole interview right now and listen before my BED recovery therapy session this afternoon.
PS Sarah Dosanjh I absolutely ❤love❤ your voice and tone 😊
My wins with IE include dissociating my self-worth from my body size or how I look. There are some arms of the IE community that I’m apprehensive about, or too “woke.” But I can say that I’ve benefitted from the body positive movement in its initial stages and helped me accept where I am right now. When “permission to eat” got to be overwhelming and feeling boundless, it actually HELPED me to remember that hunger/fullness and gentle nutrition are still part of the picture.
I struggle so much lately. Going back and forth with food. I don't know what else to do.
Hi! I have been following you for so long and you are helping me so much on my journey! Thank you, more than you know. I come to your videos when I feel in crisis. 'm so so thankful for your videos and how you deliver them you seem so kind and genuine. I was wondering, I think that one of my biggest issues right now is letting go of my weight loss dream and hope of achieving it. How can I work more on that? It's so hard to let go of. The other thing I was curious about is how to better tell hunger and fullness cues? I feel like most of the time I don't notice hunger in my stomach but more in my head. But then I feel like I should also feel it in my stomach right? I don't trust my hunger cues fully because I don't often feel it in my stomach. Also, fullness cues. Sometimes I don't know what exactly fullness feels like...Sorry I know these are a lot of questions no pressure to answer I just thought it wouldn't hurt to ask! Anyway, I again am so so grateful for you!!!! You help me more than you know!!!! I so appreciate your videos and advice and lessons!!!!!
In terms of letting go of weight loss, if we accept that there is a part of us that may never want to let it go then our job changes to, how to I manage this part of me that wants to lose weight so that it doesn’t continually affect my wellbeing?
Reframing this means you no longer have to waste emotional energy battling with yourself. A lot of the time this looks like just making a decision for now. I have a whole playlist about this topic ruclips.net/p/PL-0iL93mU_TSIAWOv0XdtNW4dlNceqwQE&si=Z6e5cjAXgnsmGfXa
Not feeling hunger in your stomach is surprisingly common. There are different types of hunger and if your interoception (capacity to feel/interpret body signals) is low then you may not experience pangs in your stomach. There are a whole cascade of biochemical processes that drive hunger and we often experience these as just feeling like we need to eat.
Ghrelin (one of the hunger hormones) learns your eating patterns and times. If you eat your meals at similar times a day this really helps biologically with regulating your appetite and this effect t can been seen in around 2 weeks.
Fullness and satisfaction are not the same. You can be full and not satisfied and satisfied but not full. Regular eating also helps with satiation. When we restrict, our brains dial down that feeling of satisfaction which leads us to eat more and explains a lot of bingeing. I also have a playlist about appetite regulation. If you understand more about how your appetite works, you may be able to improve your self regulation even if your interoceptive awareness doesn’t change ruclips.net/p/PL-0iL93mU_TSGEVMaxBE-S0yn2bShlPCs&si=wTH3MFHbx1kk4fv4
I wish I could let go of wanting to make my body smaller, and therefore more attractive in my view, but I carry around this belief that everyone should strive to be slim, and they (and I) could be so if they tried hard enough.
Intellectually, I know this statement is absurd, yet I still cling to it.
Any advice? Thank you.
That part is an older part of you. You say you know this belief to be absurd. That is the here-and-now you. We have different parts that can believe different things. That old part may be so deep in your psyche that she cannot be weeded out, so I would offer that having compassion for those old beliefs (while reminding yourself of what you choose to believe now) will calm some of its emotional power over you ❤️ It’s ok that it exists. It’s not you anymore
@@TheBingeEatingTherapistThank you for taking the time to answer me.
I’m curious how you and others manage those conflicting thoughts and voices with minimal distress.
Interested in IE course!
Great content- thanks x
Course tickets went on sale today! thebingeeatingtherapist.com/intuitive-eating-course/
@@TheBingeEatingTherapist thanks. Interested
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Please add me to the list for your Intuitive Eating course Sarah - sounds great
Drop me a message via the link in the description!
I would love a course from you.
Tickets went on sale today! thebingeeatingtherapist.com/intuitive-eating-course/
Where do I find the 10 principles ? Do you have it on one of your videos ? Btw I appreciate you and your work. It’s new to me, I want to stop dieting and learn this technique. I’ve seen many of your videos and you have already taught me a lot. Thank you Diane
I did this video a LONG time ago. It was one of my first so not the best delivery:
ruclips.net/video/KCCsrRmq2u8/видео.htmlsi=IGJ3iR8IZlwNjjFu
Otherwise there are loads of podcasts and other YT videos that cover it ❤️
You mention there’s 10 rules or something for intuitive eating and that you made a video on this but I can’t find it. Could you share the link pls? I didn’t notice in the notes below the video.
Thank you for all these videos btw!
ruclips.net/video/KCCsrRmq2u8/видео.htmlsi=CM2N51fwfSRr1nLL
I still think it's a physical disorder and that's where we need to look. The emotional aspect is just diet 101. Why can't doctors find out why so many people don't feel full and want tasty food? You wouldn't think it would be that difficult.
It’s very hard to separate the physical from the psychological and these two are inextricably linked. There is a study which showed people’s ghrelin (hunger hormone) responded to the amount of food they thought they had eaten, not the amount they actually had. Our belief systems are entwined with our biology, which is part of what makes understanding this problem so incredibly challenging
❤
Hi Sarah,
I have a sweet tooth and if I don't control it I could eat sweets all day every day. Is it OK to give myself permission to say eat the sweet treat after lunch but not dinner? I find my bingeing mostly happens in the evening...
Go ahead and try if you feel you want to. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. I just know that in my bingeing days I could’ve set that rule, but it would probably only have made the urge for something sweet after dinner even greater just because I wasn’t allowed.
Interested in the intuitive eating course
Tickets went on sale today! thebingeeatingtherapist.com/intuitive-eating-course/
I've read the IE book 4 times. I understand it and did after the first time reading it but understanding it and putting it in to practice is whole different ball game.
I've been trying on/off for 1.5 years and I still cant put it into practice for longer than 3 or 4 weeks.
I'm beginning to wonder if IE is really for me.
I'm a bit fan of taking what works and making it your own. There may be some of the principles of IE that work really well for you and can be practiced without having to take on the whole framework. For me, it's important to feel like I have created something that works for me, so you could create your own principles that might include some from IE and some that are tweaked depending on what you believe works for you.
It's also a big challenge to implement on your own without support. Especially if you are working on undoing years of disordered eating ❤🩹
Sadly, I intuitively eat very unhealthy food, very restricted food groups, absolutely no fruit (I just hate it) and loads of carbs (white bread). It’s not working for me.
One of the principles of intuitive eating is gentle nutrition so you can be intentional about adding in certain foods for nutritional benefit even if you aren’t automatically drawn to them (I wouldn’t suggest adding in food you hate though). This is one of the places where intuitive eating is often misunderstood.
But why does carbs and sugar make me feel like binge eating. I want to be able to eat in moderation is it all in my head? 😢
There are many reasons why this might be: history of restriction, tension around carbs/sugar due to previous experiences of losing control, beliefs and anticipation, not eating enough variety, trying to limit carbs, hormonal influences (PCOS, insulin resistance, metabolic issues), trauma where food has been used to cope or feel safe, impulsivity. I have a whole playlist on appetite regulation that might be helpful to you. I’ll grab the link….
ruclips.net/p/PL-0iL93mU_TSGEVMaxBE-S0yn2bShlPCs&si=MjR2lIuhwynbousW
For me they're a quick dopamine fix.
I emailed you last week and still haven't gotten an answer. How long does it usually take for you to answer? xx
I’m so sorry! I didn’t think I had any outstanding messages I haven’t replied to, but I just went into my mailbox and searched for the name Alice as it’s part of your YT name and found one from 31st July which I assume is you. I’m sorry to keep you waiting I will get onto that and reply to you 🙏🏻
How long does it normally take for it to become natural 😊
Hmmm. Good question. The annoying answer is, it depends. I personally don’t see intuitive eating as a place you arrive at, but rather a practice. There are times when I am less intuitive than others. As someone who has recovered from bulimia and BED, I think I will always carry a vulnerability to becoming dysregulated with food and returning to intuitive eating principles allows me to come back to balance very quickly.
How long it takes to feel secure in intuitive eating might be a more accurate question and this will depend on history of restriction, emotional regulation, levels of compassion and curiosity (which really help speed up the process). Many people stop and start a bit with intuitive eating so that would also elongate the process.
V interesting. Im reading the Intuitive eating book at mo. Not had a binge in 2 weeks so that's a positive. I'd be interested in doing course. Today at coffee after gym the ladies were discussing their various diets they on. Help..... how do I handle such conversations?
We have a podcast episode on this! ruclips.net/video/VSK4AYWx00Y/видео.htmlsi=fKIKdyglhAujhEQx
@TheBingeEatingTherapist I did listen but found it difficult still to know what to do. Someone said to me on Thursday I should lose weight. I'm really trying not to restrict.
@@magsB2210 Ah, I may have misunderstood you. I thought you were asking how to respond to the comments rather than what you should do from a diet/not dieting perspective. It's hard when you have different voices all saying you should be doing different things. My content is simply meant to be thought provoking so that people can make the decision they think is best for themselves ❤
@TheBingeEatingTherapist thank you. You didn't mis understand me. I have a million questions going on in my busy head. Thank you for Yr videos. They do help
Tickets went on sale today! thebingeeatingtherapist.com/intuitive-eating-course/
I wish I could let go of wanting to make my body smaller, and therefore more attractive in my view, but I carry around this belief that everyone should strive to be slim, and they (and I) could be so if they tried hard enough.
Intellectually, I know this statement is absurd, yet I still cling to it.
Any advice? Thank you.
I think this comment was posted twice. See other comment for my reply ❤️