That’s why one of the key tenets of intuitive eating is that there’s no such thing as “good” or “bad” food. This thinking flies in the face of everything diet culture teaches us about food. Yet when you destigmatize foods and look at them all as equally worthy options, it takes away the irresistible pull toward “forbidden” foods (don’t those always taste the sweetest?). Instead, you’re able to choose what you truly want and need in any given moment. Refusing to follow diet culture’s rules about “good” and “bad” foods gives you back the power and the agency to make your own decisions about what
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