Reviews

Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food by Laura Thomas

launb's review

4.0

This book helped me reflect on how I use the tropes of 'Diet Culture' to criticise myself. I now can see comments and campaigns that capitalise on this. If you want to face your relationship with food and dieting, and shift your way of seeing it - this is the book for you. The author's prose reminds you to be gentle with yourself and take small steps towards self-acceptance so that you can take up space in the world with confidence.

bethanna_hobbs's review

5.0

I loved this book, so informative, really easy to read, loads of backed up research. Non judgey, non preachy just laying out facts and advice that is brilliant. I already feel a difference in the way I approach food and more confidence in that arena and I am not someone that has ever done a lot of dieting but I would say I’ve found food tricky. I could say loads about it to be honest but I just know that I will probably end up reading this a fair few more times. Highly recommend.

logolepsy_e's review

4.0

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emvalmay's review

5.0

Genuinely changed my life. You will keep coming back to this book along your intuitive eating journey and as you should. This book is a guide to the other side one where your eating doesn’t determine your day, your mood etc. Written as though it’s your best friend talking , this book will make you look at yourself and those around you and get real pissed about diet culture.

kalliste's review

3.0

Recently I've been struggling with snacking and trying to avoid just shoving everything into my face, so decided I need to reign that in and see what else works. I like the idea of mindful and intuitive eating so I decided to read Just Eat It to find out more.
This is a great book but gave me an overload of information. Some other reviews mention reading it all in a day, but I read it chapter by chapter with breaks in between.
I borrowed this from the library, so I didn't have as much time with it as I would like. I think it's definitely more a book to buy than borrow, so you have time to do the journaling, and the activities suggested and continue the book over time.
While I'd love to be able to say this is the only thing you need to become an intuitive eater, I think seeing a dietician is also required to help you keep on track.

ali_w15's review

4.0

A really important and valuable book. Completely revolutionary. Loses it way a bit in chapter 12 when it starts into nutritional values etc. The only reason why I didn’t give it five starts. Well worth a read. It’s a book I’ll come back to time and time again.

laurenpage's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

goldentortoisebeetle's review

This is a decent book about intuitive eating, but I think it lacks some American context. and also disability context. There is a small section in the book that says "Food is not medicine" and I think in a lot of spaces I've seen indigenous people directly counter that. There's also not a ton of concern around health, and I appreciate that the section on nutrition was at the very, but the "Can you be fat and healthy?" is there. There were some helpful activities that I took pictures of to complete on my own time. This book is also FAT (wink). I'm not sure how long it would have taken me if I had actually read it cover to cover.

bemoregarnet's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

booktrovert_crystal's review

challenging funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

My biggest issue with this book was all the scientific jargon that I didn’t care about, but if you’re someone who needs to understand the science behind things, you will probably enjoy it. It was also a bit repetitive; there is a lot of focus on anti-diet culture and trying to recognize disordered eating, and how to break free of the diet mentality. If you struggle with constantly trying out new diets or disordered eating, this would probably be helpful.

My personal favorite part was about fostering gratitude for the food we eat, and just taking a second to appreciate our food before indulging.

Laura writes with a lot of humor, which does include a fair amount of cursing. But I found myself laughing out loud several times.

The main things I took away from this book are: how to recognize when you’re comfortably full; not feeling guilty for the foods I choose to eat; not seeing food as good vs. bad, but neutral; and exercising, or just body movement, for fun. Also, “fat” is not a dirty word.