6-Week Overview

What’s cool about intuitive eating is that you’re moving away from macros for a reason. What makes a successful intuitive day is not how close you think you are to the macros that you had been hitting. 

Instead, a successful IE day is about protein, fruit and vegetable consumption. It’s about drinking your water, taking your supplements, spacing meals out well, and getting in activity throughout your day. It is eating when you’re hungry and eating slowly and intentionally so you’re able to actually stop when you’re full. It’s about practicing stress management and getting good sleep, so that you can trust your hunger cues when they signal. Those are the measures of a successful intuitive day, not grams of food.

6-Week Overview

Week 1: Reflection
Week 2: Slowing Down
Week 3: Intention to Intuition – Adding an IE Day
Week 4: Two IE Days and Challenging Food Rules
Week 5: Three IE Days and Managing Emotions
Week 6: Addition, Not Subtraction

Before you begin, we encourage you to start by identifying and challenging your current diet culture beliefs. It’s important to recognize the influence diet culture may have on you, and let go of the idea that you need to follow specific diets to be healthy or worthy.

The first step to understanding intuitive eating is to get rid of your past eating habits. This is easier said than done, but it’s important that you don’t see this as a diet, or something that’s temporary. We want you to think of intuitive eating as how you eat to maintain overall health. A new way to incorporate nutrition that helps you feel good physically and mentally as an individual.

It doesn’t make sense to do what everyone else is doing when it comes to nutrition. We have different genetics. Someone’s basal metabolic rate depends on age, height, weight, exercise, NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis), resting metabolic rate, your job, health status, the amount of muscle you have, what you eat, how much you eat, your dieting history (how long you’ve been eating the amount of calories you’ve been eating), and in some cases, even where you live (climate). So how can you expect to follow the exact nutrition habits of someone else and feel YOUR best?

When you think about your past related to diet or how you feel about your body, what does it look like? Has it been up-and-down? Have there been good and bad outcomes? What has shaped how you eat today? If we can understand how our past has truly impacted our present related to what we eat, then we can start to understand how to move out of old mentalities. We can start to implement a better understanding of what our body truly needs, unrelated to what somebody is telling us our body needs.