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Title: Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
ISBN: 0312321236
Author:
Evelyn Tribole
Elyse Resch
Publicate Date: 2003-09-11
Publish: 2003-09-11
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: I lost weight after reading this
I've read several comments that said that no one who reviewed this book mentioned that they had actually lost weight, and that therefore, this book is just giving overweight people permission to eat badly. So let me just clear that up right now. I read this book (an earlier edition) in 2000, and lost 40 pounds in the next 2 years. In the 4 years after that, I lost an additional 25. And...I've kept it off.
This book does give readers permission to eat what they want, but not to eat AS MUCH as they want. It teaches you to pay attention to your body, to your hunger and fullness signals, and to how certain foods make you feel. And once you've got that down, then it goes into nutrition.
My biggest problem was eating food just because it was there--and adding to that, the habit of ordering the largest size at restaurants. Once I learned to pay attention to what I was eating, and experimenting with smaller servings, the weight just dropped off. It may not work for everyone, but here is one woman who it did work for.
Let's face it, in this day and age it IS virtually impossible to eat 100% intuitively--we all have times when we eat for reasons other than hunger--many of us have jobs where we have set meal times, we are guests at other people's houses, etc. But even if you are able to learn to eat intuitively 50% of the time, it is an improvement.
So it goes without saying that I highly recommend this book. It's not conventional diet wisdom, but if that was what worked, we wouldn't have a multi-billion dollar weight loss industry, would we?
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2: The Best Directive Yet!
I have read a number of referrals in magazines lately to an intuitive type of eating so I ordered this book. I have tried a number of dieting books and programs in the past but never successfully.
I read a little everyday and try to put into practice what I'm learning. This is a whole new refreshing approach in learning how to eat and how to truly enjoy eating. I am in no hurry to lose a set amount of weight in a certain amount of time; I want to learn how to eat by listening to my body and forget about ever dieting again. So far this book is everything I've been hoping for.
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3: the best way of life
This book is quickly becoming my "bible." Over the years, I went from a person without a weight problem to an obese person who often ate unconsciously, on autopilot, for emotional reasons, you name it. I've been on several diets as well, losing all the weight I wanted, only to regain all or most of it. Then I learned that the only thing diets ever really did for me was make me obsess about food.
I am already putting the principles into practice and feel empowered for the first time in a long time. It may be a long process for me to learn to eat in response to hunger, without judgment of myself, without silly, illogical rules, and most of all, with acceptance and peace with food and eating.
I recommend this book highly.
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4: All Dieters NEED this
Anyone who has ever struggled with dieting or has ever had trouble controlling the amount of food they eat or has ever suffered from an eating disorder must have this book. It is a life saver.
You will learn how to have a positive, healthy relationship with food again. You will stop binging, emotional eating and eating out of control. You will find that after reading this book, you will never need to diet again because you will be so in tune with your body that you will only eat the type and amount of food that it needs. Your body will naturally return to the weight it was meant to be... permanently. This book is the end of restricting food, starvation, binging, guilt and fluctuating weight.
I am a psychologist who has struggled with a binge eating disorder for years. I am now able to truely eat what I want, when I want without gaining weight or over eating. I will be using this program to treat patients who struggle with food.
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5: Okay, but not the whole answer for some
While this book has some good information in it and is a good place for people with eating issues or weight problems, I agree with the reviewer who said that the book's theory does not account for our modern diet full of sugar and poor-quality foods. For many people, eating sugar or certain fatty or salty foods will trigger chemical reactions that biologically make you want to eat more and more. This makes the "eat whatever you want when you are hungry, stop when full" almost impossible for some people. After trying to follow this and gaining some weight (which the book says can happen before your body "normalizes") I woke up and realized that sugar and processed foods were not healthy for my body and doing me no good health-wise or weight-wise, so it was time to stop eating them as much as I possibly can. It is important to follow your natural hunger and fullness issues, but it is also important to follow a healthy diet and not just allow yourself to eat anything you want at all meals. Do you let your kids eat all the sugar they want? Of course not. So, I don't think it's wise to let yourself do the same. Being or feeling "deprived" (which they say diets make you feel) is not about eating healthfully, it's about depriving yourself of a healthy body and life. The book says that you will naturally start wanting a healthy diet when you are allowed to eat what you want, but chemically, I don't think this is the case with certain people. It's worth reading, but I liked The Slow Down Diet better, and I'm also reading Shrink Yourself, a book written by a psychologist for emotional eaters.
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