This intuitive cooking piece stems from concepts related to intuitive eating, which I won’t go into great detail about, but want to introduce you to the concept if you are not familiar with it. You can also check out: intuitiveeating.org.
Intuitive eating is a bridge between anti-diet culture and health, it allows you to change your relationship with food. It includes trusting you will be able to empower yourself to honor your hunger and eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full, giving yourself permission to choose what to eat and not deprive yourself. In doing so you honor your health, making choices that make you feel good. It includes finding pleasure and satisfaction in the eating experience and using your senses to explore the power of food: tasting, smelling, seeing and savoring the experience – insert intuitive cooking and building kitchen confidence.
This is the first piece, nourishing ourselves with food and nutrition that feels good and the other piece is choosing movement that makes you feel good to; not something you have to do but something you want to do. These go hand in hand: nourishment and movement and having lifelong relationships with both, leading to a fulfilled life.