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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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Food journal comparison
Lose It vs Shutterbite
Structured records and photo journaling beside private reflection.
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Journal
How It Felt
An on-device journal for hunger, fullness, emotion, sense, photo, and note entries; selected event details go to Firebase.
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Food journal comparison
How It Felt vs See How You Eat
A visual meal diary beside a private, feeling-first journal.
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Food journal comparison
See How You Eat vs Shutterbite
Photo journaling and configurable tracking beside private reflection.
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