{"id":186829,"date":"2021-10-12T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=186829"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:27:23","slug":"how-to-do-intuitive-eating-as-a-cyclist-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/10\/12\/how-to-do-intuitive-eating-as-a-cyclist-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Do Intuitive Eating As a Cyclist \u2013 Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intuitive eating is the opposite of dieting. It doesn\u2019t restrict what you should eat but it still offers rules and recommendations. They are meant to help you maintain a healthy relationship with food and learn about feelings of hunger and fullness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reject the diet mentality<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first thing that intuitive eating calls for is to forget about dieting. If you were constantly on the hunt for the new diet that\u2019s going to help you eat healthily, lose weight, and improve performance, you have to make a change in your mentality. Intuitive eating wants you to consider that most diets simply don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

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You need to reject that diet mentality.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most research shows that regardless of the type of diet, one third to two thirds of weight is typically regained within a year, and almost all is usually regained within five years. In fact, research suggests that many dieters gain back more weight than they lost.<\/p>\n

Honour your hunger<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s much easier to handle your hunger if you don\u2019t let it get out of hand. The principles of intuitive eating suggest that when you\u2019re hungry, you should feel free to eat. When you let your feelings of hunger rise too much because of restrictive diets, it\u2019s much more likely you will experience regular bursts of binge-eating of processed unhealthy food.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to differentiate real physical hunger, as described in the previous article,<\/a> from learned emotional hunger. When you feel a slowly building urge to eat, you should honour it. That might mean you will eat intuitively at different times a day than you\u2019re used to or eating more or less frequently.<\/p>\n

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You may find yourself eating at different times a day than you are used to. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feel your fullness<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The same rules apply to feeling full. It\u2019s just as important to listen to the signals of comfortable fullness when you feel you have had enough. As you eat, check with your body if your hunger is going away. You can imagine a scale of 1 to 10.<\/p>\n