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Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food by Laura Thomas
kirkw1972's review against another edition
3.0
This book has some good insight into eating more mindfully, not following diets or diet influencers and generally eating healthier and listening to your body and it's needs.
I did enjoy the fact that the author shares her diet stories and found it interesting that even dietitians can form eating disorders. It made the book feel much more honest.
I felt it was a little too long but otherwise a great starter for learning to love yourself more rather than listen to what our phones and social media tell us. A very much needed read
I did enjoy the fact that the author shares her diet stories and found it interesting that even dietitians can form eating disorders. It made the book feel much more honest.
I felt it was a little too long but otherwise a great starter for learning to love yourself more rather than listen to what our phones and social media tell us. A very much needed read
kirkw1972's review against another edition
5.0
I tried intuitive eating before but it didn't working. Reading this book I was still counting calories and getting weighed so not intuitive eating at all! But now I know what I'm doing. This book is really inciteful but also doesn't handhold you. There's lots of exercises and moments for reflection as well as information so you do have to do some work and have an honest think about yourself as you go along. It also incorporates a form of CBT called ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy) which I've done in therapy and love so extra points for me for bringing it in. It's realistic, doesn't sugar coat and you can tell Laura knows her field. A great read
elleestpartie's review against another edition
3.0
Good in principle, but heavily ignores science and could be easily misinterpreted to encourage living in a way that will lead you to an early grave
hattie's review against another edition
informative
reflective
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Fatphobia
rpeachykeen's review against another edition
3.0
Good content - didn't love the writing style myself. I'd recommend it for anyone intrigued with IE though.
emmaaxtco's review against another edition
4.0
I came across another nutritionist’s Instagram page about intuitive eating and became very interested in the IE movement as a result. I got this book out from the library so I sadly won’t have it to refer to later but I’m going to do my best to implement her methods in my own eating habits. I’m lucky to have never been much of a dieter, but I found all of the evidence she shared to be incredibly compelling and I could stand to eat more intuitively and practice better overall self-care.
I’m now obsessed with weight stigma and fat phobia and I notice it absolutely everywhere. It makes me sick to know the harm that’s been done to people’s health and wellbeing due to diet culture BS. I’ve deleted all the #fitspo from my Instagram feed and started following BoPo accounts and IE nutritionists instead. Diets don’t work and I want to follow people who embrace health at every size. We only have this one body in life and we need to accept that we can’t change it and society needs to start respecting it.
If you’ve ever been on a diet you need to read this book and listen to Laura Thomas’s podcast Don’t Salt My Game. This is an excellent book and a great intro to the anti-diet and IE movements.
I’m now obsessed with weight stigma and fat phobia and I notice it absolutely everywhere. It makes me sick to know the harm that’s been done to people’s health and wellbeing due to diet culture BS. I’ve deleted all the #fitspo from my Instagram feed and started following BoPo accounts and IE nutritionists instead. Diets don’t work and I want to follow people who embrace health at every size. We only have this one body in life and we need to accept that we can’t change it and society needs to start respecting it.
If you’ve ever been on a diet you need to read this book and listen to Laura Thomas’s podcast Don’t Salt My Game. This is an excellent book and a great intro to the anti-diet and IE movements.
meganrose_reads's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
violet_gray's review
sad
slow-paced
1.75
Tl;dr : this book is a social justice manifesto, not a self improvement book focused on improving your relationship with food. For misrepresenting it’s it gets 1 star.
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
The long version.
If still need to come to term with your body shape and size and are looking to deconstruct the BS society piles on us, then this is a great book.
If you have done all that work and are just looking concrete help specifically around dealing with food: this book won’t help much . There is some useful info here but it’s not worth trudging through this poorly written book.
On the writing itself. This book feels like the transcript for a podcast: highly oral in a “fellow kids” style. And who would have thought… a podcast script does not a book make. Even as an audiobook I struggled listening to this.
After chapters of talking to us like we’re at some one woman debate panel, there’s a chapter of just lists! This is not hyperbolically. It is literally a chapter of lists of macro-nutrients.
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
Just goes to show that if you aren’t offered a book deal, you shouldn’t always take it
This book is, in the author’s own words a manifesto for social change.
This is social change that is needed.
All her points on this are valid.
The fact that she was dishonest in her pitch grinds my gears immensely.
As a social worker with eco-anxiety trying to recover from a burn out I do not need this preachy bs.
I will read social issues books when I have the energy to engage with them and don’t appreciate having them shoved down my throat when I’m trying to engage in selfcare, a process that the author knows is challenging .
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
The long version.
If still need to come to term with your body shape and size and are looking to deconstruct the BS society piles on us, then this is a great book.
If you have done all that work and are just looking concrete help specifically around dealing with food: this book won’t help much . There is some useful info here but it’s not worth trudging through this poorly written book.
On the writing itself. This book feels like the transcript for a podcast: highly oral in a “fellow kids” style. And who would have thought… a podcast script does not a book make. Even as an audiobook I struggled listening to this.
After chapters of talking to us like we’re at some one woman debate panel, there’s a chapter of just lists! This is not hyperbolically. It is literally a chapter of lists of macro-nutrients.
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
Just goes to show that if you aren’t offered a book deal, you shouldn’t always take it
This book is, in the author’s own words a manifesto for social change.
This is social change that is needed.
All her points on this are valid.
The fact that she was dishonest in her pitch grinds my gears immensely.
As a social worker with eco-anxiety trying to recover from a burn out I do not need this preachy bs.
I will read social issues books when I have the energy to engage with them and don’t appreciate having them shoved down my throat when I’m trying to engage in selfcare, a process that the author knows is challenging .
Content Warnings
Minor: Classism, Eating disorder, Addiction, Cursing, Body shaming, and Fatphobia