Sensual pleasure is our biological reward for taking care of ourselves. When you eat what you want and allow yourself to truly experience the pleasure, you feel satisfaction and contentment, which allows you to stop eating when you feel full. I’m not just saying this to make you feel good; numerous studies support this: Eating pleasurable food when you have a physical drive to eat won’t trigger consistent overeating in intuitive eaters. Also, if you are consumed with guilt, you don’t enjoy (or even experience) the food. Unfortunately, however, the opposite is true for people with a dieting
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