Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach

the new BIBLE. I said what I said. 5 stars. Hear-ye Hear-ye step off the diet train and actually love yourself (or respect yourself enough to know when you are being manipulated by a multi-billion dollar industry that capitalizes on making you feel unworthy).

Some of the information about eating low fat food, counting calories and not taking in count the quality of the food we eat make it seem outdated.

This book is amazing for anyone struggling with food. I'm only a month into practicing the principles in this book but I'm already feeling better and more hopeful. I am so thankful I stumbled upon intuitive eating and then finding this book.

For my final pre-internship year, I'm going to be working with individuals with eating disorders. I figured I'd try something completely new. When I asked my supervisor what books she'd recommend as introductory readings, “Intuitive Eating” is where she sent me, telling me that it's the only self-help nutrition book out there that she not only tolerates, but actually likes. In short: her assessment is spot-on.

People ask me for book recommendations fairly often (and I'm only a grad student, so I'm guessing it'll get more frequent). It's a tricky question because so many books are so deeply cheesy, and I'm not exactly going for “deeply cheesy” as a psychologist-in-training. Well, hallelujah. “Intuitive Eating” is not cheesy. It is not patronizing. It is not preachy, simplistic, or annoyingly cheerful. It is compassionate, straightforward, and wise. It brims with good, old-fashioned common sense that is too often overwhelmed by the dieting hysteria that has gripped the U.S. for...well, decades, now.

I am sure this book will be invaluable when doing eating disorder treatment. But, if you're reading this, and you're experiencing even just a niggling iota of doubt that maybe you don't have as healthy of a relationship with food as you could (TRULY healthy, none of this sanctimonious all-raw-food-all-the-time crap), then do me a solid, and get yourself to a bookstore ASAP.

This is the best book I have found so far explaining Intuitive Eating in a relate-able, knowledgeable way. There are other great books out there that compliment this one wonderfully, but this is the best I've found. I found myself nodding along with almost everything the authors had to say. Dieting mentality really messes with your brain and I”m so thankful to find Intuitive Eating to find a healthy balance listening to the wonderful body that God gave me.