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Nourishing News
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Don't Overeat In The Holidays, Eat Naturally
The most wonderful thing about “Natural Eating” is its simplicity. You don’t have to buy special ingredients, watch what you eat, deprive yourself or anything else which is out of your own control.
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Dec 19, 2011
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We Diet Because We Don't Trust Ourselves
I believe the reason we turn to diets to lose weight, is that we don’t trust ourselves to make the necessary changes on our own. The trouble with diets is that they are completely unnatural and not what our body wants and needs.
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Dec 5, 2011
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Overweight People Eat Fewer Meals Than Others!
What tends to happen is that many overweight people eat infrequently or irregularly. In general it may be three times a day or as little as once or twice. I can see why people think this would be beneficial because surely if you’re not eating very often you must be eating less food and therefore you should lose any excess weight.
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Nov 23, 2011
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A Positive Alternative to Dieting
Natural Eating is a positive alternative to dieting which simply allows you to listen to your body so you can give it what it wants when it wants it.
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Nov 9, 2011
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How do we know when we are hungry?
Time and time again when I talk about eating when we are hungry I get told, “I never have hunger pangs”, or “I don’t even know when I’m hungry”. Unfortunately we will never learn to eat naturally if we don’t know when we are hungry.
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Oct 24, 2011
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Why Is Our Meal Often Not Enough?
The principles of Natural Eating allow us to eat what we want, when we want. But often no matter how delicious the meal is and how satisfied we are, we still feel like we want something else.
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Oct 10, 2011
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Eating Will Never Satisfy You If You're Not Hungry
So many of us eat for comfort, to block out things we don’t want to think about or to make us feel better in the moment. But if we continue to eat when food is not what we need at the time, then we will never be satisfied.
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Sep 26, 2011
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You Can Overcome Food Issues Forever
Learning how to eat “naturally” enables you to be at peace with food. It is no longer the first thing you think about in the morning or the last thing you worry about at night. The four common-sense principles enable you to put eating into perspective so it’s simply another part of your day.
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Sep 12, 2011
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No Pain No Gain - What Absolute Rubbish!
Of course, you can’t achieve anything worthwhile without hard work and determination, but it shouldn’t be negative and degrading. Diets teach you how to use will power to deprive or starve yourself, go without your favourite foods, beat yourself up or feel guilty for wanting to enjoy something delicious. That’s exactly why they don’t work long-term.
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Aug 24, 2011
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Be At Peace With Food - Eat Naturally
From my perspective food should simply be another part of our day. We have to eat every day and it should be enjoyable, but we shouldn’t be thinking or worrying about it when we are not hungry. Just like showering, when it’s time to shower, we have one. When it is time to brush our teeth, we brush them.
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Aug 15, 2011
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How I Learnt To Eat Naturally
Isn’t it interesting that when you are going through an illness such as Bulimia, you feel you are all alone and no one else can possibly know what you are going through? However as soon as you open up and ask for help you will be surprised at just how many people have had similar issues to yourself.
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Aug 1, 2011
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Turning Negative Eating Habits into Positive Ones
Natural Eating is all about listening to your body so you can give it what it needs when it needs it. It is a way of eating which enables you to react to your body’s signals rather than simply eating out of habit.
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Jul 18, 2011
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Don't Give up, Eat Naturally
If you are looking for a short- term fix, you will continue to diet for the rest of your life as your body fights with you.
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Jun 20, 2011
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Don't overeat simply because the food is offered!
How many times do we over eat simply because someone offers us food? We are not necessarily hungry or even like the food, but we don’t want to be rude or offend them, so we will accept the food anyway.
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Jun 6, 2011
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Why Can't We Lose Weight, It Is Just Common Sense!
With the countless number of diet and weight loss programmes available, the general idea is always the same, "eat less and exercise more!" This makes absolute sense. Simply eat fewer calories and burn more off and the excess weight will disappear. So why doesn’t it work?
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May 22, 2011
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When It's Time To Eat, Just Eat!
Once you learn to eat naturally you find you will sit at the table without distractions. This will enable you to concentrate solely on the food, how it tastes, how it smells and how it feels in your body.
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May 9, 2011
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We Have To Eat Every Day - Why Not Enjoy It?
I believe a lot of us don’t enjoy eating anymore. It has become something we have to do, and because there is so much angst attached to it, we simply eat to get it done. We no longer actually enjoy it.
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Apr 25, 2011
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Stop Eating in the Past, Eat in the Present
Learning to eat naturally allows us to let go of the past and live in the present. It heightens our awareness around food and our bodies, enabling us to make the appropriate choices based on what we need now.
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Apr 11, 2011
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Trust Yourself, Eat Naturally
I believe it is extremely important, that we trust ourselves to make the right decisions for us. This is because, we are the only ones who know when we are hungry, what we like to eat and when we have had enough.
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Mar 28, 2011
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Trauma Can Cause Us To Eat For Comfort!
I’ve noticed that for many people, they never have any trouble with their weight or suffer from food related issues until some sort of event in their lives, causes them severe trauma.
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Mar 13, 2011
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Love Your Body Exactly how it is!
If you hate your body as it is and are always forcing yourself to change you find you automatically treat yourself badly. Nothing good ever comes of treating yourself unkindly or trying to force yourself to change.
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Feb 28, 2011
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Don't Worry About Missing Out!
I have come to realise that a lot of people over-eat because they are scared of missing out. Often this is the result of being in a large family and if you didn’t grab lots of food straight away there would be nothing left if you wanted anything later.
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Feb 14, 2011
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Discover how to eat without stress
I have found that for a lot of people, particularly women, eating has become extremely stressful. Often the first thing we think of in the morning when we wake up is, “What am I allowed to eat today?”
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Jan 31, 2011
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Losing weight doesn't have to be hard work
The first step in the Natural Eating process is to “notice” when we are hungry. Initially it takes a great deal of mindfulness but over time it becomes a positive habit and it gets easier and easier.
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Jan 10, 2011
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If you're allowed to eat later, you will stop now!
I believe we over-eat because we do not allow ourselves to eat what we really want to eat, when we want to. We often eat what we believe we should, but not actually what our body wants and needs.
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Dec 20, 2010
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Your stomach is only the size of your fist!
Most of us aren’t aware that our stomach is only the size of our fist. We eat a certain amount of food at each sitting because this is the amount we have always had.
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Dec 6, 2010
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Overeating is not Failing
I believe so many people are over weight because food is such an easy thing to turn to when we need comfort. It gives us satisfaction quickly when we are lonely, bored, hurt, angry, disappointed or feeling inadequate.
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Nov 8, 2010
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Stop Trying to be Good - Eat when you want!
We shouldn’t have to be “good” around food. Food is not good or bad. There are so many types of food available, some are obviously better for us than others, but it doesn’t mean that we are “bad” if we choose an unhealthy option.
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Oct 25, 2010
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Natural Eating in Action - Watch your Children
From my experience children are the best advocates of natural eaters. They simply listen to their bodies, let you know when they are hungry and stop when they’ve had enough.
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Oct 10, 2010
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Can we Beat Binge Eating by ourselves?
Personally, I believe that we can help ourselves to eat in a normal way again by following the 4 simple principles of Natural Eating. However, this may not be possible if we haven’t actually dealt with the issues that caused the binge eating or bulimia in the first place.
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Sep 27, 2010
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Do what you love, not what you think you should!
We shouldn’t be exercising to lose weight. Exercising is part of a healthy, empowering way to live, but if we don’t love it well then naturally we are not going to stick at it or get any positive benefits from it.
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Sep 13, 2010
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Allow Yourself Your Favourite Treats
I was always on a diet. Always being good! My heart was telling me what to eat, but my brain was always contradicting it by telling me to choose a healthy option instead.
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Aug 29, 2010
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You can stop when you are satisfied!
Anyone who has ever suffered from Bulimia or binge eating knows that it is virtually impossible to stop eating once you start bingeing. The only way I was able to stop, was when I knew that I could not physically fit one more mouthful in!
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Aug 16, 2010
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Binge Eating Help - Eat What You Want!
The more I felt guilty for wanting those unhealthy, high fat or high sugar items, the more I actually wanted them. We want them because they are "naughty" or "forbidden" foods.
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Aug 2, 2010
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Natural Eating in Action – What Do I eat?
During my Information Presentations, someone always asks me what I eat in a day so they can get a picture of eating 7 times. So I thought I would share that with you.
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Jul 19, 2010
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Don’t Diet, Try A LIVET Instead
Even the word “diet” is negative. What do the first 3 letters spell? Sometimes if we try to stay on a diet we actually “die” inside.
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Jun 21, 2010
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You can lose weight without Dieting
Personally I have found the best approach for permanent weight loss is to eat naturally. “Natural Eating” is all about how you eat not what you eat.
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Jun 7, 2010
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Enjoy the Benefits of Natural Eating
It is always very exciting for me when someone suddenly “gets” Natural Eating. It does tend to take a few months while your body adjusts to a completely new way of eating, often after years of eating habitually.
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May 23, 2010
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There's No Need To Put Weight On In Winter!
So if you find that you are one of those people who inevitably puts weight on in winter, start listening to your body and stop when you are satisfied, not when the plate is empty. Because more than likely there is just far too much food on your plate to start with.
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May 10, 2010
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Stop Eating From Habit, Listen to your Body
Now through listening to your body you have identified what “real” hunger feels like to you. Accordingly, if you find yourself in front of the fridge or pantry when you aren’t hungry you can give yourself the opportunity to do something else instead.
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Apr 26, 2010
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Natural Eating Guideline-Sit down to eat!
Generally people have got into all sorts of habits when they eat, however not many people tend to sit down at the table with their family and actually concentrate solely on the meal and enjoying the food.
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Mar 1, 2010
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What is your reason for eating Naturally?
Before any change in eating habits is possible, you must accept responsibility for where you are today. This is not beating yourself up or berating yourself. It is simply accepting that circumstances and the choices you have made in the past have resulted in the eating habits you now have.
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Feb 15, 2010
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Don't lose weight quickly - lose it forever!!
People are always looking for ways to lose weight fast and that is why it never lasts long term. Yes you can lose weight quickly on all number of diets, eating plans and exercise programmes. However I can guarantee it will come back again and generally more than you had to start with!
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Feb 1, 2010
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What else do you enjoy besides food?
The fourth principle of Natural Eating is "Moving onto another activity after eating". This means we find other things in our lives that give us pleasure that we can look forward to after we have finished eating. This will enable us to have another focus, so food is not the most important thing to us.
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Jan 4, 2010
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Do you know when you are hungry?
Generally, people who are over weight or have food related issues have lost the ability to know when they are hungry. Natural Eating teaches us to tune back into ourselves so we do know and can made an appropriate choice at that time.
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Dec 7, 2009
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Diets don't work, to lose weight eat more often
Diets don't work. As soon as we follow some sort of eating plan or diet, we are allowing someone else to control what we eat. We can only sustain this for so long until willpower is no longer enough!
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Nov 9, 2009
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