How to Stop Dieting and Start Intuitive Eating
An Anti-Diet Dietitian Shares the 5 Steps You Can Take to Become an Intuitive Eater
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Another step toward intuitive eating is to make food choices from a place of self-care. If you have any true allergies or intolerances to foods (such as peanut allergy, celiac disease, or lactose intolerance), you obviously need to honour those. But Christy said, "if you've been cutting out foods unnecessarily based on a false food-intolerance diagnosis (which is sadly common these days), giving yourself unconditional permission to eat all foods helps you break free from harmful and unnecessary restrictions."
Also, giving yourself permission to eat anything you choose, rather than following outside rules that you're "not allowed" to eat particular foods, puts you back in charge. Having freedom to eat the foods that make you physically and emotionally happy and satisfied is an important step in intuitive eating.