I am so excited to share what changed my life from feeling trapped to knowing that I'm in control of my choices. It was connecting with my intuition, and you can do it too!
Learning how to recognize intuitive cues from my body helped me trade stress for satisfaction. Am I Really Hungry will guide you out of the traps of dieting to the life changing satisfaction of self-control.
There are 3 requirements: stop "dieting", tune-in to your body and start trusting your 6th sense.
Intuitive eating frees your mind from trying to control your body. It does this because it's something you sense (like seeing or hearing) not something you think about. That why intuition works by giving you physical cues. Eating is all about our physical being.
Because dieting imposes limits and rules on your body, it creates physical and emotional stress that ultimately you intuitively rebel against, which is why diets ultimately fail.
It's much easier to work with your body by responding to it then to work against it by ignoring it.
Hunger is personal. You have mental, emotional and intuitive needs to nourish along with your physical needs. All of this creates cravings. Until you recognize what you're really hungry for these are easy to confuse.
Intuitive eating is common sense. It includes checking in with your body, mind and emotions and doing exactly what feels right. Learn to connect with your body to keep weight off by recognizing intuitive cues and you won't be manipulated by unhealthy cravings.
Instead of stress you connect with self-control at mealtime and the big reward is: you like your body and you like yourself! You can feel the relief.
Start now by using the 3 Minutes Rule to get through confusing food cravings to connect with what you really want. It's called "Doing the Intuitive Pause".
1. Stop yourself from being mentally manipulated.
Ignore the craving by focusing on being kind and patient with yourself for 3 minutes. Tune in to your body's needs and your state of mind. It's intuitive to respect your body by remembering your physical priorities.
2. Notice your attitude towards yourself.
Don't compromise who you are because you're angry, frustrated, lonely, stressed or bored. Instead, find something besides food to make you feel better.
3. Use all of your senses to notice what's triggering your appetite.
This includes using common sense to notice what's impacting you outside of your body. Common sense is the intuitive way of being alert.
4. Decide how you will feel about yourself if you eat what you're craving.
If you won't be happy with yourself an hour later, it's not physical hunger.
5. If you recognize the food craving is from your body, then enjoy eating it by noticing how satisfied your body feels while you're eating. It's intuitive to enjoy eating. In fact, you get 70% more nutrition from food when you enjoy it!
Get more hints, cues and answers on my new website: www.AmIreallyHungry.com
I look forward to seeing you there!
Showing posts with label how to lose weight natually. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to lose weight natually. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
It's too hot for stress and guilt!
Wow- Summer is half-over but the heat won't let up and there are still weeks ahead of wearing clothes that reveal every unwelcome bulge. The surprise is- only you see flaws. Other people see pleasing curves. We are all our own worse critics.
To be your ideal weight: work with your body, don’t fight it or ignore it.
People who diet have the habit of ignoring their bodies.
So, why not connect with your intuition and get some relief?
Eating based on a book or a program is stressful because it's not about you, your body or your life realities. Rushing to lose weight, forcing yourself to follow a program, or starving yourself all create stress. It's really too hot in August to bring on more heat from stress.
Eating intuitively puts you in sync with your body. You feel comfortable with yourself. It's refreshing. Why not cool off with intuitive eating?
Becoming an intuitive eater is natural; it doesn't create stress.
Everyone can do it because using intuition is being plugged into yourself. Your appetite is personal, just like your fingerprints or DNA.
Eating is as easy as breathing and as important for your health and energy level. If you tried to restrict your breathing the way you control your eating, what would happen?
Diets create stress. Intuitive eating is long term satisfaction.
August is too hot for stress.
People who don't diet and stay a healthy weight are intuitive eaters that have tools to stay in sync with their body goals. These tools demolish hot buttons like stress and guilt that sabotage weight loss.
Nourishing your self is done with food, ideas and emotions. It's all connected inside you. Your senses work with your mind and your body to let you be clear about what is nourishing.
Use your intuition and get rid of dieting for good.
Am I Really Hungry? 6th sense diet : intuitive eating has the answers you're looking for.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Say a prayer.
Feed your soul and say good-bye to unwanted weight.
I received an e-mail from a woman I'm coaching to be an intuitive eater. She's started to silently say a prayer of appreciation before every meal and believes it's why her body's feeling healthier and she's losing pounds.
I received an e-mail from a woman I'm coaching to be an intuitive eater. She's started to silently say a prayer of appreciation before every meal and believes it's why her body's feeling healthier and she's losing pounds.
If you're ready to lose weight and stop yo-yo dieting, feed your soul.
Appreciate your food, whether it's humble or fancy. This feeds your soul.
Because you can eat when you feel hungry while others can't,
say Thank You before you eat.
The more you feed your soul, the less your body weighs. It's a fact.
Intuitive eating is feeding your whole self. This shows self-respect for your mind, body, soul and heart. You're an amazing, beautiful and complex person. Appreciating who you are, and what you have, puts you in touch with your intuition. Try it.
If you wonder what you have, start with your 5 senses and be thankful your eyes can read this. You can hear the voice of someone you love, touch the hand of a child, feel the sunlight on your face or groom a pet. Saying a prayer of appreciation is simple and powerful.
The real way to be your healthy weight is to feed yourself differently.
When your treat your body with kindness, you are feeding your heart love
Appeciate your whole self in the morning when you wake up.
When you eat, ask yourself: What am I hungry for?
and then, Am I really hungry?
My new book, Am I Really Hungry? is being launched in September. The book teaches how to eat when you're hungry and stop when you're not. You re-discover how your intuition works and gain access to health and fitness, and end 'dieting' for good. This book is the foundation of my IntuEating for success programs which I will soon be talking about.
For my loyal blog readers I am making copies available at a discount for a limited time. Contact me and mention this blog. I will send you a copy of Am I Really Hungry? for 50% off retail price.
with appreciation...
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Instant Gratification
Change that lasts takes time. We're taught to expect instant gratification. Diets promise we'll lose 5-10 lbs a week and be an ideal body in a month. The truth is, it won't happen. Losing 5-10 lbs by starving yourself now will boomerang and end up around your middle in July. Aren't you tired of losing and gaining weight?
Don't buy into media hype about instant gratification. Since your body is a natural system, it requires time to process change. Only slow progress endures because you're organic. Trusting organic change means using determination and trusting your senses.
Because we're conditioned to "trust" instant gratification, there's a disconnect from our truth. Instead of responding to conditioning use your 6 senses to stay in the present. The truth is there is no such thing as instant gratification when it comes to long-term physical changes.
When you use all 6 senses at mealtime, physical needs and healthy food boundaries become obvious. Real nourishment is only achieved when you're in sync with yourself. Make a commitment to yourself and use determination to connect with messages from your body at mealtime. Go for real gratification.
Don't buy into diet hype about the need to eat what you don't want when you're not hungry because of a scale or a clock or a book. You have the answers and they are very personal, custom tailored what your body needs. Your body is amazing, alive and constantly evolving.
Use your senses to know your body. Eat intuitively by using the 10 tools. You will learn to recognize when you're hungry and when you're not. That's instant gratification.
Don't buy into media hype about instant gratification. Since your body is a natural system, it requires time to process change. Only slow progress endures because you're organic. Trusting organic change means using determination and trusting your senses.
Because we're conditioned to "trust" instant gratification, there's a disconnect from our truth. Instead of responding to conditioning use your 6 senses to stay in the present. The truth is there is no such thing as instant gratification when it comes to long-term physical changes.
You can trust your body.
It's always focused on healing and creating energy.
Your body is more efficient than the most advanced super-computer.
When you use all 6 senses at mealtime, physical needs and healthy food boundaries become obvious. Real nourishment is only achieved when you're in sync with yourself. Make a commitment to yourself and use determination to connect with messages from your body at mealtime. Go for real gratification.
Don't buy into diet hype about the need to eat what you don't want when you're not hungry because of a scale or a clock or a book. You have the answers and they are very personal, custom tailored what your body needs. Your body is amazing, alive and constantly evolving.
Use your senses to know your body. Eat intuitively by using the 10 tools. You will learn to recognize when you're hungry and when you're not. That's instant gratification.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Your Inner Rebel
Louise was trying to lose weight, walking every day and being conscious of portion size. Louise was doing a great job of changing her body. She was converting fat to muscle and felt tighter, but since muscle weighs more than fat her weight was the same. Louise didn't trust herself or even deeply believe in her efforts. Instead she depended the scale for validation. But the scale didn't budge and she felt defeated.
Using a scale to validate your progress to lose weight sabotages by undermining your efforts. The scale is an obstacle in the way to connecting with the needs of your body. When we define ourselves by measuring 'progress' we're not allowing the space and time of organic change to unfold in a natural or enduring way.
When you decide to lose weight, instead of supervising yourself with rules, listen to your body. Imposing control that feels stressful won't bring long-term weight loss. That type of control feels restrictive and encourages your inner rebel. The inner rebel is your survival instinct- it feels stress and holds on to those fat cells until it feels safe.
Use your eyes to see portion size and use taste to judge quality. Get moderate exercise and eat slow enough to notice how you feel. Let experience remind you that respecting your body is respecting your self. Respecting yourself makes your body feel safe and allows it to let go of fat.
Use the intuitive tools of dignity and determination to allow your body to complete it's process so you look and feel good. Dignity, determination and self respect is how to walk the walk of long-term body health.
It's a bold step for a dieter to trust her body. Spring is a time of new beginnings. Take the first step to change by tuning in to your senses to notice what you notice. You don't need a scale to validate your efforts. Use dignity and determination to fortify the bold choice to trust yourself. You're worth it!
Using a scale to validate your progress to lose weight sabotages by undermining your efforts. The scale is an obstacle in the way to connecting with the needs of your body. When we define ourselves by measuring 'progress' we're not allowing the space and time of organic change to unfold in a natural or enduring way.
When you decide to lose weight, instead of supervising yourself with rules, listen to your body. Imposing control that feels stressful won't bring long-term weight loss. That type of control feels restrictive and encourages your inner rebel. The inner rebel is your survival instinct- it feels stress and holds on to those fat cells until it feels safe.
Use your eyes to see portion size and use taste to judge quality. Get moderate exercise and eat slow enough to notice how you feel. Let experience remind you that respecting your body is respecting your self. Respecting yourself makes your body feel safe and allows it to let go of fat.
Use the intuitive tools of dignity and determination to allow your body to complete it's process so you look and feel good. Dignity, determination and self respect is how to walk the walk of long-term body health.
It's a bold step for a dieter to trust her body. Spring is a time of new beginnings. Take the first step to change by tuning in to your senses to notice what you notice. You don't need a scale to validate your efforts. Use dignity and determination to fortify the bold choice to trust yourself. You're worth it!
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Myth of Self-Control
Change happens inside us.
'Self-control' imposed by ideas or rules can feel like a threat to your body. Feeling threatened puts your body in the survival mode.
Your body :
- is genetically programmed for survival. It can force you to eat, breathe or sleep to survive.
- will be fat any time it decides that being fat is the best way to keep you safe.
- decides how much you weigh, not your conscience or a book you read.
That's why self-control is a myth. Since our body controls itself, it has complete control over how fast we burn fat. Because it's intuitive to protect and empower your body, trusting your intuition keeps your body feeling safe.
Tune in with your senses and notice what you notice. Your 6th sense will kick in to enhance your observations and what is right to eat to be your healthy shape will be automatic.
Tune in with your senses and notice what you notice. Your 6th sense will kick in to enhance your observations and what is right to eat to be your healthy shape will be automatic.
Intuitive eating feels like self respect. Your body relaxes, you enjoy eating and the pounds fall off! That's what's happening with people doing my IntuEating program right now! It's easy to talk about, but letting go of self-control is a challenge when you are used to dieting. Be patient with yourself.
Begin this way:
- Nourish your body every day by only eating what you really want.
- Listen with your senses to your heart and body.
- Visualize your healthy fit body, exactly the way you want to look and feel before you get out of bed in the morning and before every meal. Feed that body.
When you force yourself to lose weight, you are violating your bodies natural laws and it rebels by holding on to fat. The real path for self-control is to connect with yourself using dignity and your senses to be clear about what feels right. Take a deep breath and realize that your body is talking to you.
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