Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

by Christy Harrison

As I’ve alluded to throughout this chapter, stopping eating in response to fullness really tends to fall into place once you get the hang of honoring your body’s needs for food, and once you trust that you’ll always have enough—both enough food in general, and enough variety and pleasure in your food choices. You need to trust that you’re allowed to eat as much as you want of the foods you desire, anytime. Part of what keeps people eating past the point of comfortable fullness is the belief that their food is going to be taken away or placed off-limits again, so they have to get it all in now while they can. So if you want to be able to honor your fullness and stop before getting painfully full, you have to focus on allowance—allowing yourself to eat consistently throughout the day, and allowing yourself access to all foods, rather than making certain things verboten.