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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051205/...tuitive_eating
All I can say is this is exactly how I used to eat. I'm not an emotional eater and I don't snack between meals. I ate only when I was hungry and stopped when I was full enough to get me through to the next meal. I hardly ever stuffed myself. Though I ate more than the average Filipino I believe I eat around the same as the average American as I am an inch below the average American height.
From personal experience, at best, intuitive eating helped me maintain my weight, but failed to do so whenever a lifestyle change occured. This usually happened when I changed jobs. I would intuitively eat according to my previous lifestyle instead of my new one. This would result in weight gain.
There's probably more to this intuitive eating than what is written in the articl, and it probably works or people with normal metabolisms and have no issues with trigger foods and emotional eating. But how many of us here are in that category.
One thing that Atkins has proven to me, especially during the OWL phase, is that what I put into my body matters a lot more than how much.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051205/...tuitive_eating
SALT LAKE CITY - When Steven Hawks is tempted by ice cream bars, M&Ms and toffee-covered almonds at the grocery store, he doesn't pass them by. He fills up his shopping cart.
It's the no-diet diet, an approach the Brigham Young University health science professor used to lose 50 pounds and to keep it off for more than five years.
Hawks calls his plan "intuitive eating" and thinks the rest of the country would be better off if people stopped counting calories, started paying attention to hunger pangs and ate whatever they wanted.
As part of intuitive eating, Hawks surrounds himself with unhealthy foods he especially craves. He says having an overabundance of what's taboo helps him lose his desire to gorge.
There is a catch to this no-diet diet, however: Intuitive eaters only eat when they're hungry and stop when they're full.
That means not eating a box of chocolates when you're feeling blue or digging into a big plate of nachos just because everyone else at the table is.
The trade-off is the opportunity to eat whatever your heart desires when you are actually hungry.
"One of the advantages of intuitive eating is you're always eating things that are most appealing to you, not out of emotional reasons, not because it's there and tastes good," he said. "Whenever you feel the physical urge to eat something, accept it and eat it. The cravings tend to subside. I don't have anywhere near the cravings I would as a 'restrained eater.'"
It's the no-diet diet, an approach the Brigham Young University health science professor used to lose 50 pounds and to keep it off for more than five years.
Hawks calls his plan "intuitive eating" and thinks the rest of the country would be better off if people stopped counting calories, started paying attention to hunger pangs and ate whatever they wanted.
As part of intuitive eating, Hawks surrounds himself with unhealthy foods he especially craves. He says having an overabundance of what's taboo helps him lose his desire to gorge.
There is a catch to this no-diet diet, however: Intuitive eaters only eat when they're hungry and stop when they're full.
That means not eating a box of chocolates when you're feeling blue or digging into a big plate of nachos just because everyone else at the table is.
The trade-off is the opportunity to eat whatever your heart desires when you are actually hungry.
"One of the advantages of intuitive eating is you're always eating things that are most appealing to you, not out of emotional reasons, not because it's there and tastes good," he said. "Whenever you feel the physical urge to eat something, accept it and eat it. The cravings tend to subside. I don't have anywhere near the cravings I would as a 'restrained eater.'"
From personal experience, at best, intuitive eating helped me maintain my weight, but failed to do so whenever a lifestyle change occured. This usually happened when I changed jobs. I would intuitively eat according to my previous lifestyle instead of my new one. This would result in weight gain.
There's probably more to this intuitive eating than what is written in the articl, and it probably works or people with normal metabolisms and have no issues with trigger foods and emotional eating. But how many of us here are in that category.
One thing that Atkins has proven to me, especially during the OWL phase, is that what I put into my body matters a lot more than how much.
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