- The goal of natural eating is to create harmony between your needs for energy, pleasure, satisfaction, flexibility, and nourishment.
- Examine how you use food before you try to change what you eat.
- Responding to your body’s hunger and fullness signals is the most basic form of natural eating.
- Get professional help if you think you’re using food to fulfill other needs, and you can’t determine how to identify those needs or meet them appropriately.
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Managing Emotional Eating (Gail Story) 3
I carried those cards with me wherever I went—in the car, at work, in my purse. They were always there to remind me what to do if I was struggling.” As for finding time for her workouts, Gail decided to juggle her schedule a bit to move exercise to her lunch “hour.” Continue reading »
Managing Emotional Eating (Gail Story) 2
At 36, Gail was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and placed on medications, while her work environment and one particular supervisor were driving her back to destructive eating patterns. “It was a horrible situation, and I started eating to deal with my unhappiness. I probably gained 50 pounds that year.” Continue reading »
Managing Emotional Eating (Gail Story)
One of nine children growing up on a farm, Gail recalls childhood meals full of fried foods and unlimited desserts. Though body weight was “part of my family’s consciousness,” neither Gail nor any of her family members were seriously overweight, due in part to working the farm and plenty of bicycling on country roads. Continue reading »
Understand and Meet Your Nutrition Needs
Hunger is one of the most primal drives that humans experience, but it certainly isn’t the only need to which you must attend. Far too many people attempt to use food to meet these other needs, often to the detriment of their overall health and well-being. Part of leading a balanced lifestyle includes being able to identify and satisfy some basic needs in an appropriate manner. These needs include, but are not limited to Continue reading »
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