You can still have disordered eating patterns even though you may not be diagnosed with an eating disorder. Disordered eating is when you engage in patterns that create an unhealthy relationship with food. To live a healthy life, you need to make peace with food and see it as satisfaction and a way to fuel your body. Today, the media often portrays food as only satisfaction or only as fuel, which creates disordered eating patterns.

Having a disordered relationship with food can lead to obsessive thoughts with food, slower metabolism, weight cycling, decreased self-esteem, high stress, nutrient deficiency, and damaged gut health and digestion.

These symptoms should not be used as a diagnosis for an eating disorder; they are just common symptoms of people who have a bad relationship with food. Though, many of these symptoms can lead to an eating disorder depending on severity. Refer this post to someone you know who may be struggling with these symptoms of disordered eating.

Keto, Atkins, paleo, juice cleanses, OMAD (one meal a day), IIFYM (if it fits your macros), Jenny Craig, and Weight Watchers are all some of the most popular fad diets that people fall victim to trying. It is estimated that 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. The common denominator between all of these diets is that they all make you eat a lower amount of calories by restricting types or amounts of food you eat to promote weight loss. They are usually backed by a small amount of science without many long-term trials. You know these diets because most of them have a large social media presence to make them trendy. Think about a time where you or someone you know has tried one of these diets, how long could they stick to it and keep the weight off? Were they satisfied on the diet? The truth is, we are not meant to eat only foods based on a strict diet plan with no flexibility.

You can still have disordered eating patterns even though you may not be diagnosed with an eating disorder. Disordered eating is when you engage in patterns that create an unhealthy relationship with food. To live a healthy life, you need to make peace with food and see it as satisfaction and a way to fuel your body. Today, the media often portrays food as only satisfaction or only as fuel, which creates disordered eating patterns.

Having a disordered relationship with food can lead to obsessive thoughts with food, slower metabolism, weight cycling, decreased self-esteem, high stress, nutrient deficiency, and damaged gut health and digestion.

These symptoms should not be used as a diagnosis for an eating disorder; they are just common symptoms of people who have a bad relationship with food. Though, many of these symptoms can lead to an eating disorder depending on severity. Refer this post to someone you know who may be struggling with these symptoms of disordered eating.

Intuitive eating is an eating style where you eat when you want, what you want, and however much you want. Now it is a lot more complex than what it seems like because in intuitive eating, you are eating food based on listening to your stomach, your cravings, your hunger, and your emotions. Intuitive eating is not mindless eating and it is not a diet. There is no restriction in intuitive eating. This eating pattern is created to be utilized every day over a life span. Everyone is invited to follow intuitive eating, and this eating pattern is meant to benefit all people.

The advantages to intuitive eating include being able to have a healthy relationship with food, being able to have a food-obsessed mind, being able to eat without overstuffing yourself to discomfort, and intuitive eating is also shown to benefit many medical markers like blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight stabilization.

Intuitive eating became popularized by two dietitians Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, who wrote the book called Intuitive Eating. In the book, they created 10 major principles which are to be followed in order. Here I will summarize each of the 10 principles, but I highly encourage you to read the full book in order to gain the best understanding of the principles. While going through the principles start with the first principle, learn it, understand it, and implement it into your life before trying to implement the proceeding principles.