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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But the problem is not you, it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped you from listening to your body. Written by two prominent nutritionists, Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be. Learn:*How to reject diet mentality forever*How our three Eating Personalities define our eating difficulties*How to feel your feelings without using food*How to honor hunger and feel fullness*How to follow the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, step-by-step*How to achieve a new and safe relationship with food and, ultimately, your bodyWith much more compassionate, thoughtful advice on satisfying, healthy living, this newly revised edition also includes a chapter on how the Intuitive Eating philosophy can be a safe and effective model on the path to recovery from an eating disorder.
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| Have your cake, and eat it, too! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is a great book for those who are sick of dieting and ready to "make peace with food," which, by the way, is the third principle of the book. It teaches you how to end the deprivation-overeating cycle so that you can maintain a natural and healthy weight while still enjoying foods that you love.
This is for real; the authors of the book (both registered dieticians) want you to eat, but be aware this is not a "get-slim-quick" plan. The authors want to teach you how to normalize your relationship with food, so you don't have to diet, and you need to be ready to give up dieting and put aside initial weight loss goals to acheive this. Intuitive Eating is a personal process not a plan, and weight loss is not its primary aim, just a delightful side effect.
As for my personal testimonial, I have been working with Intuitive Eating for a little less than a year, and the principles in the book are finally beginning to gel for me. The result is a net loss of 8 lbs ( I was only about 10-15 lbs overweight to begin with), but, more importantly, I feel great about myself and my body. I am healthy and happy and look forward to continuing my intuitive eating journey.
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| I recommend this book for all my clients. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I have taught eating disorders clients to eat intuitively for over a decade and have had all of my clients (both inpatients and outpatients) read this book. The chapter "gentle nutrition" has been confusing for clients who are not fully out of their eating disorder or those with dichotomous(black and white) thinking. I also recommend "One Day at a Time Food Journal" which compliments Intuitive Eating and many clients find very helpful One Day at a Time- Food Journal and Hunger Fullness Monitor.
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| Excellent resource for regaining a healthy relationship with food |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I picked up this book after it came recommended to me by not one, but several friends. I had managed to lose a good deal of weight dieting but my diet had quickly turned into an obsession. I found myself unable to derive pleasure from food and ridden with anxiety over every food decision. This book is designed to be a gentle approach to freeing yourself from chronic dieting and getting back to a healthy relationship with food. In fact, nutrition and exercise are among the last chapters in the book.
The book starts by helping you evaluate what kind of eater you are and then moves through the stages of reclaiming your ability to eat intuitively. It includes strategies to help you get there and exercises to help you assess what is a healthy weight for you. It includes stories of people who have been through the process as well as special considerations for people who come to this book after dealing with an eating disorder.
It is a great book and has really helped me work through some of my struggles with my diet and weight. The one thing I will worth noting is that what the authors talk about in the book is really a process and you need to be prepared to take things in your own time. As laid out in the book it's a five stage process and you may find that some steps are easy for you to reach, while others take working at. I think this book is most beneficial when you give each step the time you need. The first time I read this book it was not so effective for me because I breezed through it as I would a novel and didn't put my whole heart into heeding the steps. I revisited it a second time becoming committed staying on each step as long as I needed to and really committing myself to it and then found that it was very affective in not only maintaining my weight, but getting back to a more balanced approach to food.
I have recommended this to many friends and will likely continue to do so in the future.
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| I lost weight after reading this |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I've read several comments that said that no one who reviewed this book mentioned that they had actually lost weight, and that therefore, this book is just giving overweight people permission to eat badly. So let me just clear that up right now. I read this book (an earlier edition) in 2000, and lost 40 pounds in the next 2 years. In the 4 years after that, I lost an additional 25. And...I've kept it off.
This book does give readers permission to eat what they want, but not to eat AS MUCH as they want. It teaches you to pay attention to your body, to your hunger and fullness signals, and to how certain foods make you feel. And once you've got that down, then it goes into nutrition.
My biggest problem was eating food just because it was there--and adding to that, the habit of ordering the largest size at restaurants. Once I learned to pay attention to what I was eating, and experimenting with smaller servings, the weight just dropped off. It may not work for everyone, but here is one woman who it did work for.
Let's face it, in this day and age it IS virtually impossible to eat 100% intuitively--we all have times when we eat for reasons other than hunger--many of us have jobs where we have set meal times, we are guests at other people's houses, etc. But even if you are able to learn to eat intuitively 50% of the time, it is an improvement.
So it goes without saying that I highly recommend this book. It's not conventional diet wisdom, but if that was what worked, we wouldn't have a multi-billion dollar weight loss industry, would we?
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| The Best Directive Yet! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I have read a number of referrals in magazines lately to an intuitive type of eating so I ordered this book. I have tried a number of dieting books and programs in the past but never successfully.
I read a little everyday and try to put into practice what I'm learning. This is a whole new refreshing approach in learning how to eat and how to truly enjoy eating. I am in no hurry to lose a set amount of weight in a certain amount of time; I want to learn how to eat by listening to my body and forget about ever dieting again. So far this book is everything I've been hoping for.
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