One part of the intuitive eating puzzle is an elusive highly demonized and totally misunderstood emotion; however when properly embraced, creates the most profound changes in people’s eating habits and quality of life as a whole.

We reject our bodies because we don’t believe we meet social standards for beauty, and we feel bad for not looking pretty enough. But how safe would we actually feel looking any different?

We recognize a craving when an urgent need for something “specific” hits us.

So how do we go about breaking this complicated cravings code?

We get used to a cycle of over-eating; feeling guilty about overeating; and then trying to control it. Then comes hunger, and with the hunger comes the guilt, then appetite, then the expectation of satiation, followed by overindulgence, and guilt again, so there is an endless self-defeating cycle.