I want to know YOUR THOUGHTS 💭on INTUITIVE EATING! While I believe we can all do it, I personally think it can be really tough for a couple reasons: - 1. When you've been dieting for years, ignoring your hunger cues, eating till your stuffed, and forcing yourself to eat 6x a day to "speed up your metabolism" it's hard to have any instincts about what your body actually needs 2. Most of us have gotten nutrition advice from friends, family or the internet and we hold onto a lot of info even if it's wrong, or simply not appropriate for us personally. And this also impacts our eating. - Trying to eat intuitely when we don't normally eat vegetables, know what foods provide protein or what an appropriate hunger level feels like before hanger, makes it tough. - I do consider myself someone who eats intuitely, I personally use a lot of information from tracking macros to do so. The truth is, prior to tracking macros, my "intuition" about what I could and should eat was greatly impacted by things I'd been told or read...even if they weren't quite true. Carbs are bad. Low fat is bad. Ice cream is bad. - Who else ate nuts because they were told, "nuts are a great source or protein". 😬 I think this is the perfect example of how we're impacted by things we hear. And while i've got nothing against nuts. PB is my jam (lol!). After tracking macros I learned that while nuts do have protein, they're a better source of healthy fats than protein. Sure I can get 30 grams of protein from peanut butter...but I'm going to have to eat 800 calories to do it. - Listen to my PODCAST on why #intuitiveeating can be hard and what helped me. Link in stories and my bio. ♥️ - #intuitiveeatingjourney #intuitiveeatingcoach #intuitiveeatingchallenge #nutritioncoaching #fatlosscoach #vancouverfitness