Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss, with Ela Law

Find Your Strong Podcast

How is your relationship to food and your body?
Have you ever heard of Intuitive Eating?
Here's a clue - it's NOT anything to do with NOOM.
Intuitive eating is a simple idea about making peace with all types of food.
Unlike traditional diets that restrict/ban certain foods, intuitive eating encourages
listening to your body and eating what feels right for you.
In the words of, Evelyn Tribole (the co-founder of Intuitive Eating):
"Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating framework rooted in science and informed by clinical experience. " *

Along with the recent surge in popularity for Intuitive Eating, comes co-opting by diet culture, specifically well known diet brands like NOOM and WW talking about food freedom AND intentional weight loss, as if one were compatible with the other.
I invited my guest today Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and my good mate, Ela Law to give you clarity on all of the above. If you have struggled to find peace with your body or true acceptance, this episode is a great place to start and I truly hope it will be helpful for you.
Ela's passion is to support her clients in gaining life-long tools to develop a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies and to enjoy life.
Ela includes mindfulness and meditation techniques in her sessions. In addition to her 1:1 counselling work she runs a popular intuitive eating course for Body Image Fitness with Kim Stacey - my first ever guest on the pod.
You can find her on socials @elalawnutrition and via her website www.elalawnutrition.co.uk and can join her FREE Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/permissiontoeatcommunity/
* IE is a #HAES-aligned, evidence-based model with a validated assessment scale with nearly 120 studies to date showing benefits."
Are you feeling stuck in the 'earn and burn' cycle with your exercise routine, or as summer approaches, are you feeling self-conscious about wearing a swimsuit on the beach? Maybe you just want to stop worrying quite so much about your body.
Your body is not the problem. Reach out if you would like some support. We both have slots for Intuitive Eating Coaching spots coming up for a limited period only ,so get in touch.
And if you enjoyed this episode, please share and follow the 'Find Your Strong podcast' and if you have time, write me a short review. It would honestly mean the world to us. Love to you all, Ela & Christine x

Chapters

1. What IS Intuitive Eating? (00:06:43)

2. What about weight gain? (00:09:46)

3. Bad body image days and coping strategies (00:13:24)

4. Does your body have a 'happy' weight? (00:19:32)

5. Our 2 peaks of Body Dissatisfaction (00:22:24)

6. Research around BMI categories and mortality rates. (00:31:42)

7. Food Rules (00:35:21)

8. You don't always have to have what you fancy (00:38:57)

9. Body Trust (00:42:45)