Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach

by Evelyn Tribole

“Willpower” can be defined as an attempt to counter natural desires and replace them with proscriptive rules.

We have yet to find one client who says that focusing on their body in such negative ways is helpful.

Blame our bodies for the meanness of other people.

Police our bodies to avoid the judgments of weight-stigmatizing people. • Engage in performative eating for the expectations of others.

The problem isn’t your body, it’s our fatphobic culture, which is everywhere, including healthcare, schools, places of worship, media, social media, grocery stores, the beauty industry, the fitness industry, family, and friends.

Weight is not a behavior!

You don’t have to like every part of your body to respect it.

If the cultural ideal for women overlaps with eating disorder criteria, American women are not only chasing an unrealistic body goal but are engaged in a potentially dangerous pursuit.

her obituary, the final message Ellen wanted to share was about the fat shaming she endured from the medical profession. Over the past few years of feeling unwell she sought out medical intervention, and no one offered any support or suggestions beyond weight loss. When she finally got the correct diagnosis, inoperable cancer, she lived for only a matter of days. Ellen’s dying wish was that women of size make her death matter by advocating strongly for their health and not accepting that fat is the only relevant health issue.

social isolation was found to be more lethal than smoking fifteen cigarettes a day

Several large studies have found that low-carbohydrate diets are associated with early deaths from all causes and more health problems!

For example, a meta-analysis study by Mazidi and colleagues (2019) found that folks eating the lowest amount of carbohydrates had the highest risk of heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

in the United States, a child is 242 times more likely to have an eating disorder than type 2 diabetes!