Being the researcher of your own body

So many of us have a hard time with starting an intuitive journey with food.

How do we know what our body is telling us? What if it feels like our body is just nudging us to fast food & sweets?

‘I feel like my body is only telling me to take another bag of chips and drink the bottle of wine.’

‘I am too scared to let go, because I think I will never be able to control myself‘

Part of my coaching is about undoing the allure food has over us. This desire to go crazy on foods we love, but feeling unable to stop in time. When we restrict ourselves around our eating, certain foods get this ‘specialness‘ to it. We put them on a pedestal as ‘the food we desire, but can’t have‘

My teacher used to tell us: ‘You know what you really want, when you are telling yourself you can’t have something’.

When we allow ourselves to go to these ‘forbidden’ places, actively and with a plan, we slowly undo these foods from their golden ‘specialness‘ wrap. The things we are not allowed to have create a fog which doesn’t allow us to understand our bodies signals clearly. And in order to return to this clear connection with our bodies, we have to undo this ‘allure’.

How to start your Intuitive Journey

A beautiful practice to start with in your intuitive eating journey, is simply to observe how you are feeling before, during and after you eat something. Not with your mind (which may tell you all the stories of WHY this is not good for you) but with your body. Noticing how food is affecting you.

We don't do this with the intention to make instant conclusions (‘Okay, I NEVER eat cheese again, because it makes me tired’), but by simply remembering the sensations inside your body after we have noticed it. 

Be the curious researcher of your own physical experience! 

Remembering, that you truly need different things at different times.

& eventually you will find that your body simply nudges you towards the foods that are right for it in the moment.

Sometimes it’s the carrots or the lettuce

and other days the bread with olive oil & Himalayan salt

(because how delicious is that, right?)

We need to undo our labels, our rules, our stories of what is right or wrong for us and allow our body to take us on a journey with its wisdom.

Let’s surrender, sister!

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