Intuitive Eating

A food lifestyle that respects your body and your emotions

By: Kyle Sandstrom

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Intuitive eating is the opposite of dieting. It takes into consideration the whole person's health and wellness. With traditional diets, when you restrict a certain food item, there is an emotional response. The internal response occurs when a forbidden food is eaten, such as feelings of guilt or failure. Success is short-lived if restrictions in caloric intake and fasting cause the opposite to occur later: over-eating or cheating.

The intuitive approach takes into consideration your internal signals and responses, not the number of calories or carbs you need to limit or keep track of. The idea of this method is to stop the refusal of food choices based on rules. Listen to your body's response and emotional needs first, and the full benefit of intuitive eating will follow.

©2019 Kyle Sandstrom (P)2019 Kyle Sandstrom

BEWARE! Another diet in disguise

One would think, from the title and the introduction, that this would be a step away from diet culture. It's not. It still pushes a weight loss (or "stabilization") agenda, still assumes that thin is best, and still pushes a restricted diet. It's just been camouflaged by using coopted phrases from *real* Intuitive Eating (check out the ORIGINAL book by Tribole/Resch). Calling it by some other name and stealing catch phrases from the ACTUAL anti-diet movement doesn't make it "not a diet". It's still a diet. Don't be fooled. Skip this one and check out Tribole/Resch or Harrison or Dooner.