Intuitive Eating
What is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive Eating is the dynamic interplay of emotion, instinct, and thought that invites us to cultivate non-judgmental curiosity around our thoughts, body sensations, emotions, experiences, and values to help break free from diet dogma, foster body respect and live more authentically in alignment to our values.
It is an evidence-based self-care eating framework backed up by over 160 studies and was originally co-developed by dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch.
Why Intuitive Eating?
Research shows that dieting for the purpose of intentional weight loss is conversely a major predictor for weight gain, with 90-95% of dieters regaining back the weight within 5 years. Dieting messes with our physiology and psychology impacting everything from our metabolism and appetite hormones to our thoughts about food and our bodies.
āDieting leaves us fighting against our own biology!ā
We are also most likely to blame ourselves and implicate emotions like guilt, shame, hopelessness, and low self-esteem in our eating and everyday self-care practices.
If this feels uncomfortable to read, please know that you are not alone. For pretty much our whole lives weāve been told that controlling our weight is a matter of willpower and that āhealthā is a state to be achieved rather than defined in our own terms.
Want to ditch the diets for good?
At Isa Robinson Nutrition, we recognise the need to move at your own pace and to consider your unique experiences and goals in coming to this work. We see you as the expert of your experience and the boss of your own body.
a safe space.
Our job is to create a brave space to cultivate non-judgmental curiosity, exploration and experimentation as and when that feels safe for you.
āWe see you as the expert of your experience and the boss of your own body.ā
certified clinicians.
All our clinicians are certified Intuitive Eating counsellors and our intention is to work alongside you every step of the way to get off the diet merry go round, connect back to your own internal wisdom, foster body kindness and free up headspace for what really matters to you.
The 10 principles of Intuitive Eating
Adopting Intuitive Eating means working through the 10 principles to address a very important relationship - the one we have with food and ourselves.
Learn more about the principles here.
The 10 principles are:
