{"id":615,"date":"2009-08-26T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2009-08-26T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:03:55","slug":"what-is-normal-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/what-is-normal-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is &#8220;Normal Eating&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone else today seems to be asking &#8220;What Is Normal Eating?&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/26\/what-is-normal-eating\/\"><i>Psych Central<\/i> blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/26\/what-is-normal-eating\/\"><i>New York Times<\/i> Wellness blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedmeimcranky.com\/2009\/08\/26\/what-is-normal-eating\/\"><i>Feed Me I&#8217;m Cranky<\/i> blog<\/a>), I figured I should address it here &#8211; at the official &#8220;Normal Eating&#8221; Web site.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Normal eating&#8221; means eating according to body wisdom &#8211; which then begs the question, &#8220;What is body wisdom?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I wrote in a previous post on <a href=\"http:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/2-main-reasons-people-overweight\/\">why people are overweight<\/a>, &#8220;Body wisdom is an inborn attraction to the foods that our body needs for nutrition. It tells us exactly what, when, and how much to eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;symptoms&#8221;, so to speak, of eating according to body wisdom, were highlighted in the <a \"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/26\/what-is-normal-eating\/\"><i>New York Times&#8217;<\/i><\/a> summary of <a href=\"https:\/\/ellynsatter.com\/about.jsp\">Ellyn Satter<\/a>&#8216;s work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Going to the table hungry and eating until you are satisfied.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to give some thought to your food selection so you get nutritious food, but not being so wary and restrictive that you miss out on enjoyable food.<\/li>\n<li>Leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, rather than eating more now because they taste so wonderful.<\/li>\n<li>Trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating.<\/li>\n<li>Giving eating some of your time and attention, but as only one important area of your life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem is, emotional eaters can&#8217;t just decide to do this. If you are driven by compulsion and food cravings, you can&#8217;t eat according to body wisdom. Nor can you eat according to body wisdom if you&#8217;re eating a lot of processed foods, since these are literally engineered to use body wisdom against you.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the compounding problem is that emotional eaters cannot choose to forego processed food because of compulsion and food cravings!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a way out of this, and it&#8217;s not dieting. &#8220;Normal Eating&#8221; (both words capitalized) is also a method &#8211; a method for overcoming emotional eating so you <i>can<\/i> make food choices and eat according to body wisdom. The method is laid out in detail in my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=as2&#038;path=ASIN\/0963078178&#038;tag=normaleating-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"><i>Normal Eating for Normal Weight<\/i><\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/normaleating.com\/support_group_info.php\">accompanying support forum<\/a> helps you apply the ideas to your own life.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an emotional eater or if you eat a lot of processed food, you are probably overweight. The solution is not dieting. In fact, if you are a dieter, you also are probably overweight because 95% of dieters regain any weight they may have lost, plus some. The solution to overeating is Normal Eating.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a normal eater, or have you experienced normal eating? 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