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What is intuitive eating?

Intuitive eating involves knowing that you should eat when you're hungry and not starving (Photo: Shutterstock)

Ever realised that of the many dieting programs around, most of them fail to give you the power to determine your own intake? Then comes along intuitive eating which is a method that gives you full control of when to eat and to what amount.

Intuitive eating involves knowing that you should eat when you're hungry and not starving, finishing the meal when you feel full but not extremely. According to a popular book by ITribole and Resch, these are the 10 basic principles of the philosophy. 

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