Intuitive eating Flashcards
What is the focus of intuitive eating?
Focused on habit change NOT weight-loss-> not a weight loss strategy
HAES® principles:
- Weight inclusivity
- Health enhancement
- Respectful care
- Eating for wellbeing
- Life-enhancing movement
Intuitive eater definition
Someone who eats according to their internal signals (ex: hunger/fullness) and preferences, rather than in response to external pressures (ex: specific diets/food rules).
dieting definition
The pursuit of weight-loss or body modification, generally through the restriction of specific foods or calories (many other methods exist).
What is the problem with dieting?
- Short-term weight-loss
- Within 2 to 5 years weight regain
- Weight cycling
- ED risk
- Binge-eating
- Body dissatisfaction
- Cravings/preoccupation with food
- Internalized weight stigma
- Lower self-esteem
- Psychological stress (higher cortisol levels)
A 2016 study* found that ____% of Canadian young adults tried to lose weight in the past 12 months.
50%
Diet culture definition
A culture based on a set of beliefs that (1)demonize certain foods while elevating others and (2)stigmatize certain body types while elevating others.
characteristics of diet industry
− Includes all programs, products and interventions which promise sustainable weight- loss and body transformation
− Makes people believe that sustainable weight- loss is achievable
− Profits off of people’s insecurities
Characteristics of Public Health messaging around “obesity epidemic”
− Fear-inducing
− Black and white messaging about body weight
− Stigmatizing
Consequences of Diet Culture:
- Widespread guilt around eating+disordered eating - Exercise as a means to control one’s body
- Preoccupation about body size and shape
10 Principles of IE
Reject the diet mentality Honor your hunger Make peace with food Challenge the food police Respect your Fullness Discover the Satisfaction Factor Cope with your emotions with kindness Respect your body Exercise - Feel the difference Honor your health Gentle nutrition
Principle 1
Reject the Diet Mentality
- Learn about diet culture
- Understand that diets don’t work
- Recognize the damage that dieting caused
- Get rid of dieter’s tools (scale, diet
books, magazines, etc.)
Principle 2
Honor Your Hunger
- Learn to eat when hungry
- Learn to recognize signs of hunger
- 1st step of rebuilding trust with one’s body after
restriction - Unmet hunger can lead to eating past fullness (short-term) and preoccupation with food (long-term)
- IE is not a “hunger-fullness” diet
Honor Your Hunger - tool
Hungriness scale form 0 to 10
Begin eating at around 3 (set) or 4 (pangs) to maximize enjoyment of food and avoid getting uncomfortably full
Principle 3
Make Peace with Food
scary, but exciting
- Unconditional permission to eat any food in the quantity desired
- Understand that foods are not good or bad- they serve different functions
- Move away from “last supper” mentality and “what-the-hell!” effect
- Can be done step-by-step
- Often starts with “honeymoon” phase
- Allows to pinpoint real preferences as opposed to restriction-driven cravings
- Mechanism: habituation