ladydewinter 's review for:

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch

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I‘m almost 40 years old and been around the diet block quite a few times. It took getting therapy to understand that what I had been doing wasn’t „being good and then not being good enough to stick with it“ - it was finding ways to shrink myself with the help of one diet or other, then at some point being unable to keep up the restriction and then developing an eating disorder.

I remember listening to an episode of „You‘re wrong about“ where Mike said that health wasn’t the same as weight, and it was a paradigm shift for me.
I am struggling accepting myself as I am, but I found this book extremely helpful. I recognized a lot of my behaviors in their examples. I appreciated how kind they sounded, and how aware of marginalized experiences.

Definitely worth reading if you have the feeling that „dieting“ or „eating healthily“ is making you unhappy.