84 | Why Intuitive Eating isn’t working for you with Cristina Hoyt

84 | Why Intuitive Eating isn’t working for you with Cristina Hoyt Cristina Hoyt Alvarez is back for another episode and we’re getting deep and sweaty into talking about Intuitive Eating, mindful eating, neutral nutrition, and why intuitive eating isn’t working for you.

First off, we’d like to say that this sh*t is hard and we get it. Moreover, it’s extremely hard to do tackle the non-dieting world and transition away from diet culture alone, without working with a professional. How are you supposed to learn how to eat intuitively if you’ve been hearing diet talk your entire life? How are you supposed to know if intuitive eating is working or if you’re making progress…if the way you’re used to measuring progress is through the lens of diet culture?

On today’s episode we’re talking about:

Why people quit Intuitive Eating to go back to dieting, macro and calorie counting (it feels safe!)
What does “working” mean to you in terms of intuitive eating? How are you measuring progress? And progress according to who?
Why you may not be seeing progress with intuitive eating, if you equate progress with things like weight loss, aesthetics, etc.
Why you feel “out of control” when you start intuitive eating
The biggest struggles people see when transitioning to intuitive eating
Bringing a dieting mentality into intuitive eating
Some take-home, action steps that you can use as barometers of whether or not intuitive eating is working for you
How to eat with curiosity, not hostility, and get out of the all-or-nothing mentality with eating intuitively