Oats for breakfast

If you want to begin your journey towards intuitive eating, resulting health benefits and weight loss then there is a very simple way to start.

Commence each day with a bowl of oats. As much as you want. Cook it or have it raw. Add milk, yoghurt, fruit, honey, nuts, whatever you want. Most of your bowl should always be the oats though.

Have it every morning without fail. If you wake up in the morning and you are not hungry, it means you ate too much last night. Stick to your bowl of oats, but maybe have a smaller bowl or add a few less bits and pieces to it.

What is the point of this? Eating oats is a wonderful nutritious way to reconnect with your true hunger. You probably won't overeat it (but don't even think about how much you are having - your body will work out what is right over time). And you will be astonished how after just a few days, you will feel even tempered, experience even energy throughout the morning, have regular easy bowel movements AND not crave junk food all morning after a good breakfast of oats. A true wonder food.

If you do get hungry before lunch. No problem! Have a healthy snack..or an unhealthy one if you wish to. The point of this approach to eating is not to get quick results or to deprive yourself or strarve yourself. The point is rather to teach you a relationship with food which will leave you in perfect shape and will last for the rest of your life and which still lets you eat for pleasure.