Intuitive eating is the body’s default mode. It’s the way we were born to eat. It’s our birthright—regardless of body size, race, ethnicity, gender identity, or nationality. Except in some rare congenital conditions that can alter babies’ appetites, we all basically had the whole hunger thing on lock from the time we left the womb. We made noise when we were hungry to let people know we needed food, and we didn’t feel the tiniest bit of shame about it. We demanded to have our needs met. We knew those needs were valid and didn’t second-guess them; we never asked ourselves whether or not we were
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