One of the central principles behind intuitive eating is to eat what you feel like, but ensure that you are paying full attention to your food. — Jo Kirchherr/Westend61/dpaIt was the first low point in her life on a diet.“But I was talked into thinking I was because I didn’t have the deer-like legs many other girls had.The now 40-year-old stress management coach based in Germany tried all sorts of ways to slim down, including a low-carb diet, rice days and weight-loss pills.
Countless people the world over are like Rabbach was, adrift and paddling madly in a sea of diet and nutrition guides that promise a fast track to a dream figure.“No,” says Dr Mareike Awe, a Dusseldorf-based physician and author of a book whose German title translates as “Feel-Good Weight”. “Intuitive eating means listening to your body, which tells us exactly what we need and what we don’t,” says Dr Awe, who takes a dim view of dietary rules, arguing they’re liable to lead to a vicious circle of self-denial and binge-eating.There’s a caveat though: “Consciously enjoy your food and stop eating when you’re pleasantly full,” she advises.“It wasn’t easy to trust my gut at first,” she says. “I started eating everything that I’d denied myself for years, so I naturally put on weight.
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