Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach

This book is a real eye opener.

If you are sick of diets, food restriction and not being able to trust yourself around food, bingeing etc, this book will change your life. I had been on a diet for most of my life until this book changed my life overnight! Find food freedom and learn to trust your body without the need for ‘willpower’. I preach what I learned in this book all the time to anyone who will listen. Stop wasting time and energy and money and happiness on a diet culture that makes billions on you failing, get your freedom and headspace back!

Is it time to throw out the diet books? Magazines? Is it time to say no to diet culture? This book says, yes it is.The two authors of this book are both professional nutritionists. So, they know their stuff, having benefitted from years of experience of treating people the intuitive eating way. This isn’t just another fad diet book.It’s a book that promotes listening to your body and eating what it tells you to eat. You will learn how to tune into this super power that we all have. Yes that’s right. You can eat what you want.You will learn how to honour your hunger and avoid emotional eating. There is even a section on how to bring up your children this way, avoiding food issues later in life.The book is well written and informative. It backs up its claims with real life stories and scientific evidence. It gets 5 stars from me.

I’m not someone who’s been dieting for years but who found menopause played havoc with my metabolism. Also minor digestive issues over many years had led me to tamper with my normal diet. Very little worked and this book has reminded me how to just eat normally without an overlay of emotion.

This has helped me challenge diet culture and fatphobia so much

This is a brilliant book recommended to me. Give up the diet yo yo misery and read this book.

The most convincing reason to NOT follow this approach are the authors themselves who today are both severely overweight. I agree that weight cycling is unhealthy, but becoming obese is - no matter how much you believe in body positivity- very unhealthy too and gaining a lot of weight over time isn’t healthy either. So, as sorry as I am to say this, the authors’ own weight journey has convinced me pretty fast that this is not an approach I want to follow. I fully agree that diets do not work, there is enough scientific evidence for it, but they seem to throw the child out with the bath water.There are several reasons why this approach won’t work:1. Most processed foods today contain sugar, and this is for a reason. The body has three feedback systems that ensure that we eat more of something that contains sugar, even if we cannot taste it. This means that our natural appetite regulation gets overruled by these foods without us even noticing.2. After years of unhealthy diets, many people have no longer a well functioning hormonal appetite regulation. This means that their bodies’ leptin and grehlin regulation is disrupted and they have a lot of difficulty to naturally regulate their appetite. To ask of these people to listen to their natural hunger is like asking an alcoholic to listen to their natural limits when drinking. Their bodies are simply no longer capable of doing it and they will automatically end up eating much more than they need.3. Some people have a genetic disposition to eat a lot and to seek out food everywhere. These people will have a very hard time finding a healthy hunger level and will in consequence gain weight easily by overeating.One last word on body positivity. I severely disagree with the authors’ notion that people should just accept where they end up on the scale once they follow this approach. Obesity is one of the leading causes of illness today, it practically increases every risk factor and is linked to higher risks of cardiovascular illness, inflammation, diabetes, and even certain cancers. It puts stress on the joints which reduces a person’s mobility. So maybe people feel happier with this lifestyle for some years, but this comes with a high price of a reduction in healthy life years. Not a trade I’m willing to make.

Totally brilliant and inspirational also incredibly easy to read.

I first read this as an e-book, but liked it so much that I wanted a physical copy that I can refer to easily.

Es claro y fácil de leer

Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition, by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch is an eye-opening anti-diet book that should be read by anyone that has experienced the stigma that comes with not being healthy based on their size and/or feeling they have to conform to society's standards and wants relief from this burden. Fat does not equate unhealthy and thin isn't the epitome of health. However, this is deemed invalid and impossible because of diet culture, which is infuriating. The validation this book provided (through scientific studies as well as their experiences as nutritionists) was greatly appreciated - I have confirmation that I'm not crazy! :) Just go into it with an open mind. The deeper diet culture has inundated itself in your life/mind, the harder it may be for you to accept the information being given.I read Big Girl by Kelsey Miller in November 2021 that gave me a whole new perspective of Intuitive Eating. She met with a trained nutritionist and, what stuck out to me, was her being asked, would she be okay if she didn't end up losing weight. As things tend to do, this viewpoint came out while talking with my therapist, who recommended that I read Intuitive Eating for a more thorough explanation and to gain tools to help me.I read some of the negative reviews, and, while not intending to invalidate others' experiences, they all scream diet culture to me, missing the point of this book. It's not another diet plan that will help you lose weight, it's a tool to help you reject diet culture, listen to what your body needs, and respect your here and now body. It's also stated more than once if your eating is due to trauma, you'll have to work in tandem with a therapist, which is also missing from reviews. I have been at what is deemed an unhealthy weight for most of my life, but I eat very little processed foods (all of it is organic/non-GMO), everything else is organic, fresh, and homemade from scratch, which I believe is why I have no health issues associated with weight (literally every doctor and dentist I have seen has been shocked or indicated I'm not being honest when I say I don't have high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, etc. - aligning with what is said in this book: there is no escaping these preconceived notions and fatphobic judgements). My body doesn't feel sluggish (and all the other negative feelings) after eating because of how little processed food I eat. Processed foods aren't degraded in this book, I'm just stating my experience that is contrary to other reviews.I have been inundated with diet culture since I was 7 or so from my family, friends, coworkers, in-laws, and concern trolls. I was bulimic in my teens but stopped after leaving my mom's house at 17. I went on Atkins in the mid 2000s, but any other diet was calories in vs calories out. There was an undefined EDNOS that stayed with me into my early 30s when I was doing in vs out. Whenever I've lost weight (over 100 pounds at one point), I have always gained it back and more, creating that "I'm a failure" feeling, until I said F it all and gradually stopped living that way. Given this, there were times when I couldn't relate to Intuitive Eating because I've never gone on an outrageous diet plan (aside to Atkins), was able to stop my bulimia without a nutritionist or therapist, and have moved away from the dieting mindset for a couple years, but not so much so that I lost interest.Personally, one of the greatest things to come from this book was the explanation that food insecurity, especially as a child, is traumatic and can cause binges, bulimia, and the loss of hunger/fullness cues. All of this is my experience; it's nice to have the explanation as to why. I didn't even know there are cues to hunger before the ravenous feeling! I'm working with my therapist to get all of this back, but had I known earlier... I also like that it gave pointers to help parents teach/continue to support their children's natural hunger cues.Hillary Huber is one of my favorite narrators. She does not disappoint with her reading of this book. It was like a friend was telling me the things the authors were, which was comforting.

O livro é de fácil entendimento pra quem não é da área,como eu.O livro trás uma importante visão sobre a nutrição real,humana e respeitosa.Indico pra quem quer sair da "bolha" do "nutricionismo" e dietas.

As a student of a Nutrition course, I am trying to investigate various approaches towards Human Nutrition, looking for interesting ideas. I find this book really revolutionary, which resolves the ¨necessary evil¨ of classical restrictive diets by a most intuitive and natural way.Very recommended.