During family week we attended many classes as they tried to help us understand what the girls are going through and the process the eating disorder goes through.
One of the classes was on Intuitive Eating. The thing that struck me the most in this class was when the instructor gave all of us a small straw that you stir coffee with, she had us plug our nose and just breathe out of the straw. After several seconds of doing this we were all gasping for breath. She asked us "What was the first thing you did when you stopped useing the straw to breathe from?" We said "Took a huge intake of air!" She explained that is how dieting is to our body, when we deprive our body from the things it needs, as soon as it can it seeks for greater supply of what it was deprived of.
As you can see, and what we all know in our heart is that dieting doesn't, well, the work but only for the time you are staying on the diet, when you do back to 'normal' eating the majority of people gain the weight be plus a few pounds.
At the Center for Change, and what I agree with, is the idea of Intuitive Eating that in simple terms teaches:
- All food had nutritional value
- Listen to your body it will tell you what it wants
- Listen to your hunger
Of course it goes deeper than that but you will have to read about that on your own if you are interested :)
So next time you decide to try a diet, think about breathing through a coffee straw.
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