Team Fit Foodie Talks: Intuitive Eating & Self-Love
Published 8/1/2018 • Updated 12/30/2021
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Surround yourself with those that pick you up and make you the best version of yourself. We’re talking all about intuitive eating and self-love because each of us has struggled with food and exercise in our own way.
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Whenever August rolls around I get the heebie-jeebies about back to school. “I don’t wanna go to schooooool.” I literally remember laying in my bed saying this to my mom every summer. DON’T MAKE MEEEEE.
ED Recovery
I’ve been in eating disorder recovery for over 6 years and one of the biggest parts of my recovery has been surrounding myself with amazing humans. I’m talking about the ones who support me for who I am and who are “normal” around food, fitness, and wellness in general. At the beginning of my recovery, it was hard for me to be around other people who had an obsessive personality about what they were eating and how hard their workout was because that’s just not the mindset I want to have. The mindset I want (and wanted) is definitely more intuitive. What I mean by this is that I want to fuel my body and exercise because it makes me feel good…not because it makes me look good. I want to eat when and what I’m craving and I want to work out when I feel inspired to.
There is no one way to learn to live intuitively. For me, it took practice and lots of challenging times eating out at restaurants and skipping workouts. Changing your behavior around how you think about food and exercise is hard, but totally worth it. If you have more interest in reading more about this, I wrote an entire post about anxiety and restaurants and you can read more about that HERE.
Anyways, I feel like you will get the best out of this post if you just watch the damn video! Thanks for being my co-anchors @emilykricther and @linleyshands. I love you babes to the moon an back.
Video Highlights
Here’s what we covered in this conversation about intuitive eating and self-love. Check it out!
- Intuitive eating and fad diets
- Normal eaters
- Food and exercise obsession because of mainstream female expectations
- Body image and athletes x food control
- Comparison
- Surrounding yourself with like-minded people
- 80/20 lifestyle
I,ve had this kind of love-hate relationship with myself where I start eating “eating on a healthy way” and start exercising like there is no tomorrow but then something happens and I just can’t keep myself going like that and I end up going back to my unhealthy habits where I skip meals or eat whatever I find or want to caring about my health at all. This is definitively an everyday struggle for me but I’m really trying to change that I’m trying to love myself more, trying to find a better relatiionship with food on the way an how I feel about my body form because in my mind my body is never good enough.
I don’t have issues with emotional eating or binging but from the stories that are in the intuitive eating book it may be something that stays with you for a long time, But that binges can be a way to learn about yourself. Intuitive eating principle 7 is Honor Your Feelings Without Using Food and is definitely something to work on during the process. But it’s something that if you’re interested in intuitive eating you can work on with a nutritionist (and maybe a psychologist at the same time). At the end of the day be kind to yourself if you end up in a binge and use it to try to grow.
Do you still struggle with binging or emotional eating? I feel like it’s something I may never be able to quit! Sometimes I go quit a while and then everyday for a week… I would love to know how or if this is something you have conquered or if it creeps up every once in awhile.
I don’t have issues with emotional eating or binging but from the stories that are in the intuitive eating book it may be something that stays with you for a long time, But that binges can be a way to learn about yourself. Intuitive eating principle 7 is Honor Your Feelings Without Using Food and is definitely something to work on during the process. But it’s something that if you’re interested in intuitive eating you can work on with a nutritionist (and maybe a psychologist at the same time). At the end of the day be kind to yourself if you end up in a binge and use it to try to grow.
What an inspiring video! 3 beautiful ladies with amazing brains❤ talking about self-love, eating, body image and comparison.
I needed this one. Thank you so much.
Lin — which crop tee are you wearing in these darling pics?
What am I missing? I don’t see the link for a video.