Sohee Carpenter

Sounds like we need some tarot cards.

I would be like 50 pounds heavier.

Yeah, like frou-frou.

But the thing is, there is actually a growing body of research in support of intuitive eating.

Not for weight loss.

It's not... The purpose is not for weight loss, which a lot of people say, I'm intuitively eating my way to weight loss.

Yeah.

That's not true.

That's not intuitive eating.

So intuitive eating, in the simplest terms, a huge principle is, of course, honoring your physical hunger and fullness cues.

But there's multiple principles to it.

One principle that a lot of people do not know about, actually,

is the concept of gentle nutrition which is one of the last steps gentle nutrition it's the last step of the intuitive eating process and that's the part that i think is really important where you are still actually making choices that honor your health

while also honoring your personal preferences.

So for example, have you heard of the concept of like add, don't restrict in nutrition?

Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.

Great, we're talking about it.

So the idea of add, don't restrict, a lot of dieticians love to talk about it.

I didn't come up with it, but I love, I'm a huge proponent of it, is the idea that they say, have what you want, add what you need.

and you you don't have a food restriction mindset and so for example let's say um i want a pizza we know that pizza is not like the most nutritious meal necessarily but maybe you'll add if you're making your own pizza you're like i'm gonna add some bell peppers i'm gonna add some mushroom and add some onions i'm gonna have a side salad with it so i can get in some extra veggies and maybe you know it's got like two slices of pepperoni i'm gonna add some more protein on that