intuitive eating

December 26, 2005 by Mary Wynne-Wynter 

I have little personal experience with dieting but know many people who
diet. So when I come across diet information that makes sense, and that
is not part of a money-making diet scheme, I like to share that
knowledge. On a gut level, this diet did just that and I think deserves a read. 

It’s the no-diet diet, an approach the Brigham Young University health
science professor used to lose 50 pounds and to keep it off for more
than five years.

Hawks calls his plan "intuitive eating" and thinks the rest of the
country would be better off if people stopped counting calories,
started paying attention to hunger pangs and ate whatever they wanted.

"One of the advantages of intuitive eating is you’re always eating
things that are most appealing to you, not out of emotional reasons,
not because it’s there and tastes good," he said. "Whenever you feel
the physical urge to eat something, accept it and eat it. The cravings
tend to subside. I don’t have anywhere near the cravings I would as a
‘restrained eater.’

Maybe this is how the French do it?   

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