Re: What intuitive eating is NOT

[Guest guest]

If you have decided to never, ever eat X,

how can you not have some hard core rules?

I would say that it's a mental thing.

On the one hand...

If you decide not to eat X because you are scared of putting on

weight, then you are making your decision out of fear. Back to the

old diet mentality!

On the other hand...

If you make an informed decision not to eat X for a medical reason

(e.g. a nut allergy), a health reason (because it's not good for

you), or a moral reason ("I don't eat animals"), then it is entirely

different. You are making a reasoned, thoughtful decision, not from

fear but from self-care or care of others.

Paddy