Quick Resources: Introduction to Intuitive Eating
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» Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach
When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge readers to embrace the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating―to unlearn everything they were taught about calorie-counting and other aspects of diet culture and to learn about the harm of weight stigma. Today, their message is more relevant and pressing than ever.
» The Food Psych Podcast
This podcast challenges diet culture in all its forms—including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. Launched in 2013, Food Psych is now regularly in Apple’s top 100 Health podcasts, with tens of thousands of listeners worldwide.
» Intuitive Eating: Can You Be Healthy and Eat Anything?
Are Intuitive Eating and health mutually exclusive? This article written by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD describes how one can honor their health while having permission to eat anything. There are three key components: 1. Unconditional permission to eat 2. Ability to rely on internal hunger and satiety cues. 3. Ability to eat for physical, rather than emotional reasons.
» When I learn “Intuitive Eating,” will I lose weight?
Let’s say a smaller-bodied woman decides to wear a bathing suit that covers up 40% of her skin. Now let’s imagine a fat woman decides to wear the same bathing suit. That bathing suit may have slightly more fabric due to the larger size, but that individual’s body could have significantly more skin, causing Instagram’s algorithm to flag the image even though there is nothing inappropriate about it. Although Instagram likely did not set out to do this, they ended up creating an algorithm that discriminates against fat bodies.
» The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food
Have you tried fad diet after fad diet, only to gain weight back? Maybe you’ve tried the protein diet only to move on to vegetables only? Raw almonds and coconut water every forty-five minutes instead of big meals? Or perhaps you’ve tried counting calories, but the numbers on the scale still don’t add up. If you are ready to throw in your hat and give up on dieting for good, take heart.
You can enjoy food again—you just need to pay attention to your body’s natural hunger cues. Based on the authors’ best-selling book, Intuitive Eating, this workbook can show you how.
» Gentle Nutrition: A Non-Diet Approach to Healthy Eating
Intuitive eating is a non-diet approach to healthy eating that focuses on unlearning diet culture’s toxic messaging so you can build a healthier relationship with food and your body and focus on health- promoting behaviors as opposed to weight loss. There is a common perception that intuitive eating approaches are also anti-nutrition, but that’s simply not the case.
In this book, registered dietitian Rachael Hartley looks at the role of gentle nutrition in intuitive eating. She explores why diets don’t work—and make you eat less healthfully—why weight doesn’t equal health, and how to approach nutrition in a flexible way, with the goal of promoting well-being, not reaching for an arbitrary number on the scale.
» Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it’s infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat “perfectly” actually helps to improve people’s health—no matter their size.
Drawing on scientific research, personal experience, and stories from patients and colleagues, Anti-Diet provides a radical alternative to diet culture, and helps readers reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.
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