A bitesize guide to intuitive eating

Intuitive Eating Scale- 2 format adapted from:

Tylka, Tracy & Diest, Ashley. (2013). The Intuitive Eating Scale-2: Item Refinement and Psychometric Evaluation With College Women and Men. Journal of counseling psychology. 60. 137-53. 10.1037/a0030893.

For each question, please select the the answer that best characterises your attitudes or behaviours.

I find myself eating when I’m feeling emotional (e.g., anxious, depressed, sad), even when I’m not physically hungry. *

I am able to cope with my negative emotions (e.g., anxiety, sadness) without turning to food for comfort. *

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Your Results

Thanks for submitting your quiz answers to see if you're an intuitive eater and discover if intuitive eating can help you!

Check out your scores below!

The following results are scored out of 5. The closer the number is to 5 there is a higher likelihood that you have intuitive eating tendencies in that area.

Total Score

This score is broken down into 4 sub categories:

Unconditional Permission to Eat
Eating for Physical Rather than Emotional Reasons
Reliance on Hunger and Satiety Cues
Body-Food Choice Congruence

Unconditional permission to eat

Unconditional permission to eat refers to the freedom to eat whatever you want without any restrictions or conditions. That means no food rules about: what, where and when to eat.

Eating for physical rather than emotional reasons

Eating for physical reasons means we are fuelling our body with the energy and nutrients that it needs. When you eat for emotional reasons you may find yourself consuming extra calories in the form of high energy, high sugar or high fat foods to try and fill an emotional need.

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Reliance on hunger and satiety cues

Essentially, do you listen to your internal cues around hunger and satiety (fullness) or are you paying more attention to food rules, time of day or other external factors?

Body-food choice congruence

Body-food choice congruence is the practice of noticing how the food you eat makes you feel, in addition to the energy it provides and how much stamina you have throughout the day.

For example, if you only ate vegetables all day and no starchy carbs or protein, how would you feel?

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