Intuitive Fasting: The Healthy Alternative To External-directed Fasting

Intuitive fasting is simply not eating when your stomach tells you that you're not hungry enough.

Externally controlled dietary regimes and rules increase the risk of eating disorders. This also applies to fasting rules and systems such as intermittent fasting following the 5:2 system or other systems.

Since it's not about fasting or non-fasting, but about external vs. internal regulation of eating, the opposite rules can also give rise to eating dis…