Mending your relationship with food Did you know intentionally trying to lose weight results in weight gain 95% of the time? Frequent dieting is one of the top predictors of weight gain and the top predictor of eating disorder development. This is because your body doesn’t know the difference between dieting and starvation . All your body sees is that it is not receiving the amount or the type of food that it wants at the time it wants. Therefore, it thinks that you must not have enough food around you and there must be a famine. When your body goes into starvation mode, you experience increased cravings and hunger, “uncontrollable” eating, and a slowed metabolism. Your body wants to conserve as much energy as possible because it thinks your access to food is limited. Food insecurity can actually have this same effect on the body. Here are the 10 Intuitive Eating Principles that help you to mend your relationship with food. Intuitive Eating is a book written by two
Adkins. Keto. Paleo. Intermittent Fasting. Raw Diet. Carnivore Diet. The list goes on and on and on ! There is a new diet out there every day! It can be very challenging for those who are on a health and wellness journey to decipher which one is the best! Worry no more! This blog and podcast are going to discuss the biggest fad diets right now and why they are good and why they may not be the best for our health. Be mindful that all this information is bias free . I have taken all the evidence-based information and compiled it into this blog! Is there more information out there? YES! However, you are an advocate for your health and you need to make the decision on what is going to work best for you! Let’s start at the beginning though…. What is a fad diet? A fad diet is a way of eating that typically restricts certain foods, has crazy health claims that are “to good to be true” and will have a spike in popularity and then feather off months or years later. It is typicall