Intuitive eating, “a process of food re-education”. Nadia Eperjessy: If you have gone through restrictive diets, you should choose intuitive eating

Intuitive eating – a practice promoted more and more often, especially on social networks. Although, as the name suggests, with intuitive eating you eat without restriction, as much as you feel your body needs, it seems that it only intervenes after certain periods in our lives, which we go through sooner or later. Nadia Eperjessy, nutritionist and co-author, spoke to us about intuitive eating, which is a process of food re-education, which we adopt to re-friend ourselves with food, after restrictive diets and not-so-food-friendly behavior.

Intuitive eating, “a process of food re-education”

Food re-education and adopting intuitive eating are two necessary approaches following negative experiences related to restrictive diets or eating disorders that we have had in the past. Intuitive eating, as Nadia Eperjessy tells us, is a process that requires patience and understanding, because healing does not come overnight and may involve weight fluctuations or other changes in eating behavior, especially at the beginning, when we feel like eating everything , without being aware of the body’s needs.

“It is a process through which we re-educate ourselves with food. If we have gone through restrictive diets and got eating disorders, we have a bad relationship with food and we want to stop this behavior and make friends with food again, yes, we should choose intuitive eating.

We must understand that this process can be, in the first phase, against us, because healing does not happen overnightand then it is possible that eating intuitively, in the first phase, will bring us a few extra kilosbecause we will eat everything, in the idea in which we think that this is what the body needs“, Nadia Eperjessy told us, exclusively for DC Medical.

The body has the ability to communicate its needs, and by learning to listen to these signals, we can rebuild confidence in our ability to make good food decisions. It takes time to rediscover the relationship with food in a balanced way, because the results do not come overnight, it takes persistence.

“Generally, this behavior comes after restrictive diets. Over time, we adjust, but the body should know what it needs. If you have a virus, your body will ask for certain foods. You will feel the need to eat a warm soup, drink a lot of tea, the body knows very well. But, really, we have to gently go through a process of re-education, re-balancing, re-friending with food”, Nadia Eperjessy told us.

In other words, let’s be gentle with ourselves and understand that food is our friend, the one that ensures our survival and at the same time nourishes the mind and body. However, the choice to suddenly restrict our diet, or to eat compulsively, only distances us even more from two things: the relationship with food and, more importantly, the relationship with our own body

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