Eating disorder really messes up our normal hunger and fullness cues. You may feel overly hungry and have urges to binge eat. And even if you eat and feel totally stuffed you may feel like you could still eat more. You may also feel not hungry and wonder why you have such a low appetite? …
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After working with clients for over 5 years now I see that one issue comes up again and again…and not many people talk about this. Maybe you know by now that to get to full recovery you need to stop restricting, eat enough, challenge fear foods and food rules, take a break from exercising…but actually …
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When you come from a restrictive past your hunger cues are messed up. You can feel full and not hungry. But it doesn’t mean you are now done with recovery and ready to follow intuitive eating. You likely still experience many physical and mental starvation symptoms and do not even feel fully recovered. So the …
“Why I always feel full and not hungry?” (5 tips!) Read More »
Today I want to talk about fluctuating normal hunger cues since I see that many of my clients face this concern in their recovery. They often ask me – “Why do I feel sometimes so hungry and then less hungry? Is something still wrong with my hunger?” I also had this dilemma once I was …
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In this video I talk about emotional eating, what is my experience and research. Are you really “eating emotionally” or is there actually something else going on? And even if you are eating emotionally is this really a problem? Isabel Foxen Duke: http://isabelfoxenduke.com/my-ultimate-take-on-emotional-eating/
You cannot learn intuitive eating just from books or listen to someone else’s advice and experience. You have to actually DO IT and learn from it as you go, learn about your own body and following your own intuitive messages. One way to do it is to go through a trial and error process.
In this video, I talk about how to let go of the diet mindset by giving yourself the unconditional permission to eat.
But what if you are not restricting or dieting anymore but you still find yourself bingeing or overeating? Is there something else you are maybe missing? Some way you ARE still restricting but are just not aware of it?
This is the Part 1 of the Q&A video series I’m doing 🙂 In this video, I’m giving advice on how to start making your hunger cues more normal, what it means to be “fully recovered”, and how to approach the subject of children and intuitive eating? Links mentioned in the video: My recovery book …
“Restricting, dieting, overexercising and calorie compensating is a recipe for a metabolic slow-down. Your metabolism is not “broken” or “damaged” but what has happened is that your metabolism has adapted to the low-calorie consumption to protect you from losing too much weight. It’s what the “starvation mode” is all about. It doesn’t mean one …
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