Why ”Listen To Your Body” is BS Advice

"Just listen to your body, eat intuitively, do what works for
you . . . "   Well intentioned advice for sure, but honestly
pretty useless in practice. When we hear advice like this we
usually think something like "oh ya, I would like to do that, that
sounds good".  But then when we actually attempt itwe get
super frustrated, we don't know HOW to listen to our body, and it
becomes just one more thing we feel like a failure at.  I mean
it SEEMS like it should be so simple, and then when it's not, we
get discouraged, we feel broken, and it's one more diet strategy
that just didn't work for us.  Back to the drawing board.
  Don't get me wrong, I actually think the concepts of
listening to your body and doing what works for you are critically
important skills for your success in achieving the lasting health
and weight loss you're after.  In fact, the ability to truly
tune in to your body, in my opinion, is the is one of the biggest
deciding factors between success and failure in achieving lasting
health and weight loss.  The reason the advice is BS is
because it's literally impossible to just DO unless you've been
taught and have practiced the skills necessary to do it.  
After years of yo-yo dieting where we are always "prescribing" a
plan and TELLING our body what food it will get and when, we have
lost the ability to tune and listen to what IT actually needs.
  Think about your last diet - you had rules about the amount
and types of food you were allowed to eat and you probably also had
a lot of rules about when you were allowed to eat.  That is
the opposite of listening to your body.  So in order to regain
the ability to tune in to the signals of our body we need to learn
the tools and practice them.   We spend  a lot of time
honing this skill in the Healthy Mind Healthy Body
Program.  If you found the tips in today's episode helpful, I
encourage you to hit the link and check it out!   XOXO Tara
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