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Normal Eating
Are you sick of dieting? Is your whole life about weight loss and diets? Try normal eating, and get off the treadmill for good. Rest assured, everyone can become a normal eater, regardless of how far off the track you are.
Normal eating is also known as intuitive eating or non-dieting. Its premise is that the human body is naturally wired to take proper care of itself, including seeking a right weight, without forcing upon it any regimens or food restrictions.
Proponents of normal eating believe that when dieters struggle, it's not because of lack of will power but rather, it's because they are trying to eat unnaturally.
The hunger and fullness method is the pedestal upon which normal eating is built. When an individual learns to discover his own hunger signals, he can learn to put off eating until those signals make themselves apparent.
Likewise, when the individual is nearing fullness, his body will send signals telling him to slow down, push his food around more, and then taper off entirely from chewing.
It may be hard for you to believe if you've been dieting a long time, or if you have an eating disorder, but you can learn this method of eating. Your body really doesn't want the excess weight. But this is a cooperative endeavor with your body, rather than the harsher diet edicts that it's been rebelling against, perhaps for years.
Linda Moran teaches normal eating through her Diet Survivors resources. Her free offerings include a topical directory of articles, blog meditations, a Yahoo! message board, and newsletters. She also has a book called "How to Survive Your Diet," which is available on amazon.com
But that's not all. Linda Moran would like you to find recovery wherever you can get it. There are other experts and resources as well. See below for materials that will further your understanding of normal eating.
Can you safely go on a diet? Take a Normal Eating test.
See also Karen R. Koenig's Normal Eating lens.
Books about normal or intuitive eating
How to Survive Your Diet and Conquer Your Food Issues Forever
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The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health
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Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
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The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!
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What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues
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Free Diet Survivors(TM) Resources
Resources to help you learn to eat normally
- The Yahoo! Diet Survivors Group for Intellectuals
- Talk to other diet strugglers on this Yahoo! message board for folks learning normal eating. Learn an intellectual approach to recovery from your food issues. Meet Linda Moran there, and receive personalized advice.
- The Diet Survivors Monthly Newsletter
- Subscribe to this monthly, web-based newsletter written by Linda Moran. Pace your learning of the non-dieting method of eating. These newsletters include thoughts from non-diet authors and anecdotes from successful non-dieters.
- The Diet Survivors Meditations
- You can subscribe now to the Diet Survivors Meditations, and receive a meditation in your email every time one becomes available. Great way to stay accountable.
Book reviews, acclaim, testimonials
- The Rules of Normal Eating
- Linda Moran gives "The Rules of Normal Eating" five stars.
- How to Survive Your Diet
- Dr. Michael R. Edelstein and Dr. Joan Henry offer words of praise for "How to Survive Your Diet" by Linda Moran
- How to Survive Your Diet
- Find out what readers have to say about the book, "How to Survive Your Diet" by Linda Moran.
Articles about normal eating
- The Normal Eating web site
- Karen R. Keonig's Normal Eating web site. Great resource, and find her books there too!
- Hunger and fullness
- Clear explanation of hunger and fullness that will get you excited about starting right away.
- Small delicious portions
- It's easier than you think to be satisfied with small delicious portions.
- Getting good and hungry
- Hunger is a normal part of eating. Find out how to get hungry comfortably, and how to know when it's time to eat.
- Non-dieting made simple
- An overview of non-dieting.
The Non-dieting Weblog
Linda Moran's blog for folks learning normal eating
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If you're learning normal eating, you know it takes time. You have many habits to unlearn, and new ways of thinking to incorporate.
Words are the answer, and Linda Moran writes plenty of them. About every week or so, she creates a new blog meditation just for you.
Now you can subscribe to receive these meditations by email: Subscribe
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- Eat Normal Now
- It's hard to grow up in this culture, especially as a woman, and not feel extreme pressure to be thin.
- Karen R. Koenig's site
- Learn from this wise therapist, and even find out how to arrange telephone therapy.
- Normal Eating blog
- Karen R. Koenig's Normal Eating weblog
- Normal Eating test
- Are you a normal eater? Find out
