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What we mean when we say…

Mindful eating, emotional eating, intuitive eating — these terms get tangled in marketing copy. These pages explain each one plainly, link to the underlying research, and explain how (and whether) How It Felt fits.

Practice

Mindful eating

Paying attention to a meal — taste, hunger, fullness, feelings — without judgement.

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Concept

Emotional eating

Using food to soothe, distract, or numb feelings — not because of physical hunger.

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Framework

Intuitive eating

A non-diet framework for trusting hunger and fullness cues — the 10-principle background, plainly.

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Tool

Hunger and fullness scale

A 1–10 self-rating tool for noticing where you are between empty and overfull.

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Concept

Interoception

The sense of internal body states — hunger, fullness, breath, emotion.

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Practice

Slow eating

Giving a meal more time, without turning pace into another rule.

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Concept

Food guilt

A moral judgment about eating — why it feels heavy and how a kinder response may help.

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Concept

Body trust

Treating hunger and fullness as information again — why the trust breaks, and how it gets rebuilt.

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