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Resources:
Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/
Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/
FREE 5 day course on BURNOUT recovery spectrum (you need this!!) https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/
Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women
Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/
How to Eat to Get Your Period Back: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/
5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/
Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/
Nicole Jardim's Fix Your Period program (affiliate link): https://nicolejardim.com/programs/?oprid=14189&ref=168736
Glucometer that I use to check my blood sugar (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/2CjLwI1
Why “Just Listen To Your Body” Isn't Helpful Advice
Sometimes people say: You don't have to do anything special, just listen to your body and eat what it tells you! Stop when you're full, eat again when you get hungry. Easy as that?
Cool! That's actually what my husband who has never had an eating disorder, told me when I asked him how he decides what and how much to eat. But someone who has had an eating disorder, may not have any idea what that looks like, because
* She has never had an experience with that. For many people, disordered eating starts very early on, so the last time she actually ate intuitively was maybe in their childhood.
* She has always had a plan to follow. Without any structure or guidelines at all, she doesn't even know where to start.
* She has a lot of fear around food. Because she has always followed rules, she has also had lists of good foods and bad foods. She's afraid that if she breaks a “rule”, she's bad. And if there's no rules, what if eating anything makes her “bad”?
The Diet Spectrum
You know that I like talking about spectrum, because most things are a spectrum! You can learn about my burnout recovery spectrum here, and understand what you have to do to start feeling better and fully recover.
Similarly, there's a diet spectrum.
On one end of the spectrum is the Strict Plan eating. On the opposite side, there's the No Structure eating. What's in between, is Intentional Eating, what I'm going to discuss today.
Strict, Rule Based Diet
Let's first look at the first end of the spectrum, which is the Strict, Rule Base Diet. This is what many of us have followed. Here are some things that describe this way of eating:
* Prescribed number of calories
* Prescribed number of each macros
* Lists of “good” and “bad”, “right” and “wrong” foods
* Specific eating times.
No Structure Diet
On the other end of the spectrum, there is the No Structure Diet. When I say diet here, I mean the way of eating — not rules. Because No Structure Diet has no rules.
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Resources:
Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/
Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/
FREE 5 day course on BURNOUT recovery spectrum (you need this!!) https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/
Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women
Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/
How to Eat to Get Your Period Back: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/
5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/
Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/
Nicole Jardim's Fix Your Period program (affiliate link): https://nicolejardim.com/programs/?oprid=14189&ref=168736
Glucometer that I use to check my blood sugar (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/2CjLwI1
Why “Just Listen To Your Body” Isn't Helpful Advice
Sometimes people say: You don't have to do anything special, just listen to your body and eat what it tells you! Stop when you're full, eat again when you get hungry. Easy as that?
Cool! That's actually what my husband who has never had an eating disorder, told me when I asked him how he decides what and how much to eat. But someone who has had an eating disorder, may not have any idea what that looks like, because
* She has never had an experience with that. For many people, disordered eating starts very early on, so the last time she actually ate intuitively was maybe in their childhood.
* She has always had a plan to follow. Without any structure or guidelines at all, she doesn't even know where to start.
* She has a lot of fear around food. Because she has always followed rules, she has also had lists of good foods and bad foods. She's afraid that if she breaks a “rule”, she's bad. And if there's no rules, what if eating anything makes her “bad”?
The Diet Spectrum
You know that I like talking about spectrum, because most things are a spectrum! You can learn about my burnout recovery spectrum here, and understand what you have to do to start feeling better and fully recover.
Similarly, there's a diet spectrum.
On one end of the spectrum is the Strict Plan eating. On the opposite side, there's the No Structure eating. What's in between, is Intentional Eating, what I'm going to discuss today.
Strict, Rule Based Diet
Let's first look at the first end of the spectrum, which is the Strict, Rule Base Diet. This is what many of us have followed. Here are some things that describe this way of eating:
* Prescribed number of calories
* Prescribed number of each macros
* Lists of “good” and “bad”, “right” and “wrong” foods
* Specific eating times.
No Structure Diet
On the other end of the spectrum, there is the No Structure Diet. When I say diet here, I mean the way of eating — not rules. Because No Structure Diet has no rules.