Intuitive Eating Part 2

I am almost finished with my book that I talked about earlier and I had some great thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys!

• #1 Respect Your Body:  It is hard to lose the "diet mentality" if you are overly critical of your body shape! Being negative is no way helpful and will not change anything on your body, it will just make your more miserable.
• How to respect your body: 
• Make it comfortable: wear comfortable clothing, and underwear! Wearing stuff that is too tight or constricting even makes the tiniest person feel uneasy about themselves!
• Meet it's basic needs: eat what your body needs and exercise
• Quit the body check game: checking out others and comparing them with yourself doesn't do any good. Doing this will only make you feel worse at times. 
• Stop body bashing: Enough said!
• #2 Honor Your Health: You don't have to eat  a perfect diet to be healthy! One meal, snack, or day of eating will not make you gain/lose weight. It is consistency overtime that matters. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.
• #3 Enjoy Exercising: Exercise to enjoy how you feel afterwards, not to burn calories or lose weight. Usually people don't stick to exercise regimens because it is usually paired with a new diet or trying to lose weight. Usually the new diet is composed of low carbs, which then turns into no energy at the gym! Who likes to work out when they don't have energy! Not me! It is the worst. Make sure to eat plenty of carbs before and after your workout. Did you know that running 2 miles burns about 50-55 carbs which equals 3 slices of bread! And running 6 miles burns about 150-170 carbs, which equals 10-11 slices! This shows you how important carbs are! When your body doesn't have carbs to use up for energy, it breaks down your muscle to use protein as energy. Less muscle=lower BMR (less calories burned at rest during the day).
• #4 Healthy Eating: Healthy eating = healthy food + healthy relationship with food. The media is causing us to get so confused about what is healthy and what is not. It is causing many of us to develop an intense fear of food, and doesn't allow us to trust what our body craves.  A lot of misleading food products out there are confusing us. (example: added fiber to sugar laden cereals, to make it sound healthy!!)

I absolutely have loved this book. Not everything said in it pertains to me, but it sure does put things in perspective.