To ask about your experiences with intuitive eating?

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I am trying to eat intuitively, not sure I'm doing it right or not? Are there any books or online support groups for this or anything? Feel like I'm alone right now.

I really want to end dieting forever. I'm over weight but dieting was begging to send me into ED territory. I'm not going there. I want to stop thinking, eating, sleeping, breathing, dreaming weight loss and get my life back. I've started. It's going well so far.

What are your experiences? Any advice for a newbie? Thanks

‘How to Have Your Cake and Your Skinny Jeans Too’ by a lady Josie (something - can’t remember).

Good luck :)

My experience was I gained a lot of weight, sadly. Now I log everything I eat and balance it out with exercise using a Fitbit and that works much better for me.

Take a look at Susie Orbach and beyond chocolate

I really don't care about being fat anymore so long as I'm happy!

I think it works really well for people who have truly disordered eating. I have a friend who essentially cures her binge eating disorder and lost weight for good. I have been doing all sorts of dieting and finally just tried to listen to myself. I am bang in the middle of normal BMI for my height, my iron levels have improved and best of all, if I feel hungry, I eat. It's wonderful, but I do still eat whole foods and cooked meals. If I just had chocolate and cookies whenever I was hungry, it would be just as bad.

I have been doing Noom for a few weeks and found it really helpful. Very much focuses on the psychological aspects that Beyond Chocolate does but is more upfront about still needing to tackle a current weight issue etc. I find this an effective approach.

Never got out of the "doritos and doughnuts" phase or whatever Josie called it & piled weight on. Now back to MFP!!

Hello,
There is a book called 'intuitive eating' by Evelyn Tribole and it's sets out all of the evidence supporting this concept. I would love to be able to eat intuitively as I think this is the 'normal' way to eat.....but I do need some rules around food which isn't part of IE! There are a lot of principles which I'm fully on-board with for example, rejecting diet culture and it's very freeing!
Also Beyond Chocolate I really enjoyed reading. It's less scientific than the other book and a really easy read. Good luck!

Doritos and doughnuts! Yeah, that's what's worrying me really. I have been really slim but really unhealthy (vitamin deficient) and overweight but feeling in good health (and eating a varied diet). I basically always eat the same amount of junk, but when I lose weight I just don't eat the healthy stuff as well.

Love it! I found Paul McKenna’s books really helpful.

Love it. So much happier and wish I'd known about it years ago! Determined kids will be brought up like this. Recommend Christy Harrison's free Food Psych podcasts.

I was already raising kids according to most of the principles, I just wasn't using the same stuff for myself. So telling them that full fat yoghurt is better, then eating a Muller light because it went with my diet. Because they could eat intuitively because they weren't tainted by years of bad habits and overweight, whereas I needed to get to my perfect weight first.

I had a lightening bulb moment I guess and just thought what the hell am I doing? I'm trying to treat myself with kindness generally. It's a process though. It's harder than I thought it would be to challenge my thinking