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Health and Lifestyle Habits

Everyday Intuitive Eating

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Intuitive eating is an approach that helps you reconnect with your body’s natural hunger and fullness cues, allowing you to make food choices based on awareness rather than restriction or guilt. By practicing simple techniques like pausing before eating, eating slowly, distinguishing between physical and emotional hunger, respecting fullness, and finding joy in food, you can develop a healthier, more balanced relationship with eating. Ultimately, giving yourself permission to enjoy food without guilt fosters a sense of well-being, satisfaction, and long-term sustainable habits.

Littérature scientifique associée

  • Kerin, J. L., Webb, H. J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2019). Intuitive, mindful, emotional, external and regulatory eating behaviours and beliefs: an investigation of the core components. Appetite, 132, 139–146.
    • Kerin, Webb, and Zimmer-Gembeck (2019) identify four core components of eating behavior, showing that intuitive and mindful eating strongly correlate with emotional regulation and attunement to bodily cues, forming a pattern labeled “attuned eating.”
  • Lattimore, P. (2020). Mindfulness-based emotional eating awareness training: taking the emotional out of eating. Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, 25(3), 649–657.
    • Lattimore (2020) shows that a mindfulness program targeting emotional eating significantly improves impulse regulation, bodily awareness, and stress, promoting a more intuitive and less emotionally-driven eating style.

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