On today's episode, Denise talks about the fourth principle of Intuitive Eating - how to challenge the food police.
So who are the food police in terms of intuitive eating?
The Food police monitor the unreasonable rules that dieting has created. Certainly, you may have people in your life who tell you how you should eat – either directly or indirectly. They might say things like “You eat that? Haven’t you heard how bad that is for you?” or or simply bragging about their own eating habits, making you feel like you should follow suit.
However, the most militant form of the police comes from your own mind, from within. It incorporates every bit of information you’ve internalized from doctors, friends, family, media and culture about:
- How you should or shouldn’t eat
- Which foods are “good” and which foods are “bad”
- How much your health relies on what you eat (hint: many things affect how healthy you are, and food is only one of them)
In this episode, Denise shares:
- What exactly does the food police really mean in Intuitive Eating?
- How to challenge the food police to help improve your relationship with food.
- The different types of negative self-talk such as 'all or nothing' thinking and 'catastrophic' and 'perfectionist' thinking and how to recognise this.
- Why self-compassion and self-awareness are KEY in eating and the ultimate weapon against the food police.
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