Transitioning to Intuitive Eating
I haven’t been tracking my food since March. When I injured my back back in February, pain and depression related being injured had caused me to have a major lack of appetite. I never thought I wouldn’t track my food, but at this time I knew I needed to focus on eating whatever Bc I didn’t want to lose weight. I believe everyone should try and get to a place where you intuitively eat, at least for short periods. It’s good for you to see for yourself that you can eat within reason, not be a slave to your tracker, and your body can still maintain. It’s good to start once in maintenance or understand if in deficit it may slow fat loss progress.
So usually most can’t just go full throttle all of a sudden. Just like with starting macro counting you may need to take baby steps and work way up. Long before my injury I already had untracked treat meals. I would eat like my normal throughout the day tracking my food, making sure protein is on point and then I’d have pizza for dinner. Eat till your full and be done. It doesn’t need to be glutinous. You start to realize you can do these things and your body rolls with it, especially when other days are tracked and on point.
Once you are mentally there, try doing a full day or weekend
untracked. You have lots of tracking knowledge in your head and you should be very familiar with what types of food and meals can meet your numbers. These days are just like your traditional tracked days but you just aren’t tracking! Eating typical food and portion sizes for you. If you aren’t comfortable with this yet, it may not be time. So just because you aren’t tracking doesn’t mean it’s a full treat day (unless you want it to be). Give your body permission to do this and see with your own eyes that you can!
Macro counting is a great tool for deficit and reverse dieting, but now that I’m focused on building muscle I know what I need to do and that is EAT...a lot. So I have been completely IE for awhile now. I do recommend checking in with tracking every now and then to make sure you are eating enough. Look at biofeedback, how clothes fit and measurements. If things are changing too much maybe time to check in again. Thoughts?
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