Opinions on the "intuitive eating" trend?

lemurcat12

lulufee317537 wrote: »

My thing is, why not just pay more attention to feeling of hunger and satiety in the first place without going through the "eat your heart out" stage?

I don't think "legalize all foods" means "eat your heart out." In fact, I think the idea is that the reason people overeat certain foods, make them into trigger foods, is because they've made them off-limit, forbidden fruit. So when you do eat them there can be this reaction "I've screwed up. Well, might as well go nuts, since today's a loss anyway and as of tomorrow I'll never eat X again. And besides I'm a terrible fat cow for eating X, so I'll never be thin and might as well eat as much as I want. And now I feel depressed and disgusting and like a loser, so I'll eat to make myself feel better and because it doesn't matter" and so on.

If it's legalized you aren't eating for all those messed up emotional reasons or because it's your Last Chance Ever, but just based on true desire.

As I wrote above, I don't buy intuitive eating in its whole. I think the claim that babies eat what they need so humans have evolved to do that and only don't because we are messed up and not in our natural state in some way really ignores what humans are like in reality. But I do happen to buy this aspect of it, at least for a lot of people.

(Ah, I see that the book's recommendation if you've got diet thinking to get over is let yourself eat as much as you want, which for some might be "eat your heart out," and maybe that's helpful to some. I don't think I do have major issues with illegal foods, or forbidden fruit, so I don't think that would be helpful to me. If you do see eating a cookie like heroin, maybe that's something to think about, though?)

echmainfit619

My intuition tells me it's bull 5h!T.

bigandstripy

If you eat intuitively then you might eat whenever you're hungry but conversely, you won't eat when you are not. That's a pretty big problem for us greedy fat people. So I see in a way why it might work. I guess it lacks structure for people who really need it.