Today I am talking about intuitive eating , essentially explaining what it is and what it is not thanks to the opinion of some experts. In fact, I
n this article I will collect the opinions of dietician Evelyn Tribole and nutritionist Elyse Resch, who have written a four-handed book on this topic. By certified health and wellness expert Isabel Foxen Duke, one of the best voices I know about eating disorders. And finally I will recommend a book in Italian to understand how intuitive eating works.

INTUITIVE EATING: WHAT IS IT?

First of all, what is intuitive eating? It is not a diet or a food regime with particular rules apart from eating when you want and how you want, following instinct and naturalness exactly as it happens in other situations, and not the rules that make us lose a healthy relationship and instinctive with food.

In fact, what happens when we are on a diet or when we are slaves to a diet mentality?

• We consider food only in the form of calories, macro and micronutrients.
  

  But we eat food, not what it represents. When we feel compelled to eat some foods and not others for their properties, we are following a food ethic. We see food as useful or useless, good or harmful.

• The body stops self-regulating in hunger and satiety.

  The relationship between leptin (satiety hormone) and ghrelin (hunger hormone) is unbalanced, which are no longer produced in the same way during the day. The body loses affinity in the management of these two hormones: although it is thought that it is possible to increase leptin (satiety hormone) as soon as you resume eating normally, what is lacking is the sensitivity to this hormone, a function that should be natural for the body.

• The result is.

  Stress, risk of eating disorders, feeling of uncontrolled hunger, binge-eating, dancing weight with a tendency to accumulate weight and lose it with increasing difficulty, metabolic disorders, hormonal disorders, limitation of one’s social life.