Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works

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I am using the principles of intuitive eating to ditch the diet mentality, fire the food police, and honor my body and what it needs. She previously represented the American Dietetic Association and was the house nutrition expert on ABC’s chat show Good Morning America. Achievements and honors include, receiving the American Dietetic Association’s Award for Excellence in Private Practice. This book gives you practical tools and exercises to begin Intuitive Eating, but beyond that, teaches you how to shift your attitude when it comes to food, exercise, and diet culture. Promoting Intuitive Eating as a way to lose weight ‘the right way’ is a misrepresentation of our work.

If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet or food plan might be lurking around the corner, it will prevent you from being free to rediscover Intuitive Eating.Instead you need to focus on you feel and the well-being you derive from the process of intuitive eating. Notably, Hawks and Tylka independently developed and validated different tools to assess Intuitive Eating characteristics. This study also validated a fourth characteristic of Intuitive Eaters—the Body-Food Choice Congruence, which reflects the Gentle Nutrition principle and how food feels in your body (Tylka and Kroon Van Diest 2013). All of our good intentions were only reinforcing some very negative, self-effacing notions that our patients had about themselves—that they didn’t have self-control, they couldn’t do it; therefore they were bad or wrong.

I hope you love these simple recipes, learning how to infuse gentle nutrition into each day to feel your best, and find joy in food again!Decolonizing Wellness” has journal prompts, affirmations, and practical tools that can help turn food into a source of pleasure. I could receive a small commission should you purchase through the link-- I only recommend products and resources I know, love, use, and/or trust! Evelyn enjoys public speaking around the world and trains health professionals on how to help their clients cultivate a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body through the process of Intuitive Eating. Intuitive Eating (2012) has two aims: to expose the broken promises of the diet industry and to lay the foundations for a saner approach to healthy eating.