Intuitive eating can be called the complete opposite of diets: you can eat sweets, flour and fast food, not stick to a strict daily routine and not buy only healthy products.
The main signals in intuitive eating are hunger and satiety. As a result, a person develops a positive attitude towards both food and life in general.
In addition, intuitive eating can help you lose weight, although not quickly. But this disadvantage is offset by the lack of stress for the body.
If you want those extra pounds to disappear as quickly as possible, you will have to follow a number of simple rules.
Calorie deficit
An intuitive approach to nutrition does not require strict calorie counting, but you should have an idea (at least an approximate one) of the energy value of your diet. In order for the weight to go down, you need to reduce your daily norm by 300-500 kcal.
Eat wisely and mindfully
Let us repeat: there are no prohibitions on any products, but this does not mean that you should not plan your diet wisely. Your menu should include vegetables and fruits, a sufficient amount of protein, but on the contrary, you should not get carried away with sweet and fatty foods. Reduce the amount of salt to one teaspoon per day.
Minimize the amount of harmful substances
You may not give up soda, smoked and pickled foods, semi-finished products, baked goods, flour and high-calorie desserts, but you should not make all of the above part of your daily menu.
Do some exercise
To burn more calories, you can walk outside, swim, ride a bike, or do other activities that you enjoy.
For reference
Intuitive eating is a modern approach to nutrition based on the idea that paying attention to your body's signals – hunger and satiety – is a more effective method of regulating weight and eating behavior than the tactics of dietary restrictions, calorie counting, or dividing foods into “healthy” and “unhealthy.”
