Working on your beliefs is an important part of healing your relationship with food. Over years of dieting, you’ll have picked up a few unhelpful beliefs about food. Intuitive eating affirmations can help you adjust those beliefs over time to help you create food freedom. They’re a useful tool that can help you adopt beliefs aligned with the relationship with food you want to create.
Intuitive Eating Affirmations
- It’s safe to trust my body’s hunger and fullness cues
- I’m learning to trust my body
- Food is just food
- All food is an option
- All foods are available
- I trust my body to tell me what I need
- Just because it’s available doesn’t mean I always want it
- When you have self trust you don’t need self control
- All bodies are worthy of food and nourishment
- My body will land where it’s meant to
- Bodies are meant to change
- I value what my body can do
- I take care of my body
- I love my body
- No one knows what’s best for my body but me
- I use what I know about food for me, not against me
- No food makes me good and bad for eating it
- Food can be simple
- I don’t have to think about food all the time
The goal of intuitive eating affirmations
The goal of intuitive eating affirmations is to help you adopt beliefs aligned with your dream relationship with food. Your relationship with food is really just made up of your thoughts and beliefs about food. Changing your beliefs about food is how you change your relationship with food. You can change your beliefs by working on your thoughts about food and practicing new habits.
One important tip is to work with affirmations that feel believable to you. Let’s use an example.
If you try the affirmation “I don’t have to think about food all the time”, but react to that thought with “but if I’m not thinking about food I’ll just eat bad foods”. Then you may not be ready for that affirmation. So you can either start with other affirmations or adjust the affirmation to something you do believe.
It’s easy to modify affirmations by making them a little longer and adding more curiosity, like using “it’s possible that maybe one day I could think about food less”.
It doesn’t matter what affirmations you practice, as long as they spark curiosity and align with the relationship with food you’d like to create. If you want more tips for adjusting affirmations or making your own, check out this how to about body image affirmations. Just apply the tips to the context of intuitive eating and your relationship with food.