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The Intuitive Eating Plan: A Body-Positive Approach to Rebuilding Your Relationship with Food
A gentle, comforting, body-positive approach to food
It’s time to explore and build new, positive relationships with food, moving away from restriction, deprivation, and obsession with body image. The Intuitive Eating Plan provides you with the information and steps necessary to heal your relationship with food and accept your body’s beautiful intuition.
You will be introduced to intuitive eating concepts that challenge what you previously believed about food, health, and wellness. Learn about the misconceptions of dieting, the mechanics and physiology behind hunger and satisfaction, how to address emotional eating, and how to make informed choices. Waiting for you on the other side is not only a healed relationship with food but also an intuitive eating bond that will impact every area of your life.
The Intuitive Eating Plan
A healing reality—No matter what results you have attempted to achieve, come to terms with the fact that natural body diversity exists. Interactive approach—Explore questions about your beliefs on things like food and stress levels, and document your progress with questions and journal prompts. SMART goals—Use the proven SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Based) method to effectively set attainable goals.Learn the principles of intuitive eating and reject the common diet mentality.
It’s time to explore and build new, positive relationships with food, moving away from restriction, deprivation, and obsession with body image. The Intuitive Eating Plan provides you with the information and steps necessary to heal your relationship with food and accept your body’s beautiful intuition.
You will be introduced to intuitive eating concepts that challenge what you previously believed about food, health, and wellness. Learn about the misconceptions of dieting, the mechanics and physiology behind hunger and satisfaction, how to address emotional eating, and how to make informed choices. Waiting for you on the other side is not only a healed relationship with food but also an intuitive eating bond that will impact every area of your life.
The Intuitive Eating Plan
A healing reality—No matter what results you have attempted to achieve, come to terms with the fact that natural body diversity exists. Interactive approach—Explore questions about your beliefs on things like food and stress levels, and document your progress with questions and journal prompts. SMART goals—Use the proven SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Based) method to effectively set attainable goals.Learn the principles of intuitive eating and reject the common diet mentality.
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Published June 16, 2020
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July 10, 2020
As a “plus-sized” woman for my entire adult life, I am more than a little familiar with the shaming, blaming, and criticism that comes with being overweight. I’ve never been much of a dieter, but I’ve seen those around me try Weight Watchers, restrictive diets, shakes. diet foods, and everything else they could think of try to lose weight. (I’m not saying I’m above all that, just that I know how bad I am at restrictive dieting, so I rarely even tried it). The biggest problem with all that is that it just doesn’t work. But there is an alternative.
The Intuitive Eating Plan by dietitian Kirsten Ackerman offers a new way of relating to food and to your body. Intuitive eating focuses on healing the relationship you have with food, without restrictions or judgments. Intuitive eating is not a diet. It has no restrictions or judgments, and there are no weight goals. Instead, you are encouraged to accept yourself the way you are and find joy in the foods you choose to eat and in the lifestyle you choose to live.
Instead of that toxic diet mentality, intuitive eaters are encouraged to honor your body by paying attention to hunger and to satisfaction. You make peace with food, respect your body, and honor your emotions as you journey towards a healthier, non-shaming mindset and a healthy relationship with eating. You focus on addition, not subtraction. Instead of trying to stop eating to comfort yourself, you add other ways you can find comfort and stress relief. Instead of restricting foods that are “bad,” you add foods that bring you joy. Instead of forcing yourself to take a run you hate, you add activities that make you feel connected to your body and your soul.
With mental exercises and journal topics, The Intuitive Eating Plan helps guide you away from the diet mindset, the weight-loss mentality, the restrictive life choices that make you miserable and helps you find the path to weight inclusion, to self-acceptance, and to joy. This is an eating plan I can feel good about and can see following for the rest of my life.
A copy of The Intuitive Eating Plan was provided by Rockridge Press through the Callisto Media Publisher’s Club, with many thanks.
The Intuitive Eating Plan by dietitian Kirsten Ackerman offers a new way of relating to food and to your body. Intuitive eating focuses on healing the relationship you have with food, without restrictions or judgments. Intuitive eating is not a diet. It has no restrictions or judgments, and there are no weight goals. Instead, you are encouraged to accept yourself the way you are and find joy in the foods you choose to eat and in the lifestyle you choose to live.
Instead of that toxic diet mentality, intuitive eaters are encouraged to honor your body by paying attention to hunger and to satisfaction. You make peace with food, respect your body, and honor your emotions as you journey towards a healthier, non-shaming mindset and a healthy relationship with eating. You focus on addition, not subtraction. Instead of trying to stop eating to comfort yourself, you add other ways you can find comfort and stress relief. Instead of restricting foods that are “bad,” you add foods that bring you joy. Instead of forcing yourself to take a run you hate, you add activities that make you feel connected to your body and your soul.
With mental exercises and journal topics, The Intuitive Eating Plan helps guide you away from the diet mindset, the weight-loss mentality, the restrictive life choices that make you miserable and helps you find the path to weight inclusion, to self-acceptance, and to joy. This is an eating plan I can feel good about and can see following for the rest of my life.
A copy of The Intuitive Eating Plan was provided by Rockridge Press through the Callisto Media Publisher’s Club, with many thanks.
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April 29, 2022Kirsten’s new book is a great, fresh new introduction to the intuitive eating framework, especially for those who are new to the IE world. Kirsten breaks down common myths about intuitive eating and health, understanding emotional eating, and why diet culture wrecks our relationship with food and our trust with our bodies. She provides some great reflection exercises throughout the book to dive deeper into your own relationship with food and your body, and guides you towards finding food peace through the intuitive eating framework.
February 18, 2022
The goal IS: Nutrition, Satisfaction, and Self Care, NOT: body size or shape. Focus on adding foods and activities, not on taking any away.
I get where the author is coming from, focus on the positive, feel your feelings, heal yourself. Don't worry if you gain weight in the process. Don't be fat phobic. I just don't think that this process will be good for you overall.
I get where the author is coming from, focus on the positive, feel your feelings, heal yourself. Don't worry if you gain weight in the process. Don't be fat phobic. I just don't think that this process will be good for you overall.
April 25, 2022
learn to trust your body
Getting off of the diet wagon and learning to love my body and reclaim my health is one of my resolutions for this year. I’m using this book and a few others as my guide. Good tips on staying healthy and avoiding falling back into the diet cycle.
Getting off of the diet wagon and learning to love my body and reclaim my health is one of my resolutions for this year. I’m using this book and a few others as my guide. Good tips on staying healthy and avoiding falling back into the diet cycle.
August 10, 2023
This book is dangerous. I highly suggest you avoid reading this book and find something else. As a morbidly obese person trying to sustainably lose weight to keep active for my family and fight disease (PCOS, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance), this book was the opposite of helpful.
The "fat phobia" stance was unbelievably offensive, making implications that every fat person is somehow fat-phobic if they are trying to lose weight. Personally, I choose to try and lose the body fat because it will allow me to live longer and be more active with my family, doing things I otherwise wouldn't be able to physically do if I were fat. I hate my own fat because me and my hormones caused it. But that means I'm responsible for bringing it back into a healthy balance, as best I can. It seems like this book promoted the opposite of dieting: having no plan at all, eat what you want, and don't weigh yourself on the scale, EVER. Exaggerated a bit, but you get my point. That is NO healthy way for a fat person (like myself) to gain control over the life they want.
There was a statement in the book that I found alarming, something like: "your body is wise, listen to it. It will tell you what it needs." From a Christian perspective, this book does not support the idea that we are created in the image of God and that ultimately we are supposed to treat our bodies like a "temple", keeping it holy and pure Which sometimes means cutting back on unhealthy foods to lose some body fat that has accumulated to unhealthy levels due to gluttony or grief or depression, or not eating anything during a water fast, or eating kosher, or giving up a food for lent. Only God knows our bodies better than we do. Our bodies are not "wise", but rather broken, sinful creatures with broken, unhealthy habits. Even the most fit and healthy person will have unhealthy cravings and give in to them. To say that we should trust our bodies and follow their lead is putting your views on body image over God's.
The book also makes no acknowledgement that hormones can cause unreasonable and ravenous cravings beyond the normal human cravings for tacos on a Tuesday night. Unbalanced hormones an enormous force for unhealthy cravings and they must be fought, balanced, and kept in check if you are going to survive.
The only reason I'm not giving this book one star is that I appreciated their commentary about the diet movement and how it is purely unhealthy propaganda. That was the only good takeaway I got from this book.
The "fat phobia" stance was unbelievably offensive, making implications that every fat person is somehow fat-phobic if they are trying to lose weight. Personally, I choose to try and lose the body fat because it will allow me to live longer and be more active with my family, doing things I otherwise wouldn't be able to physically do if I were fat. I hate my own fat because me and my hormones caused it. But that means I'm responsible for bringing it back into a healthy balance, as best I can. It seems like this book promoted the opposite of dieting: having no plan at all, eat what you want, and don't weigh yourself on the scale, EVER. Exaggerated a bit, but you get my point. That is NO healthy way for a fat person (like myself) to gain control over the life they want.
There was a statement in the book that I found alarming, something like: "your body is wise, listen to it. It will tell you what it needs." From a Christian perspective, this book does not support the idea that we are created in the image of God and that ultimately we are supposed to treat our bodies like a "temple", keeping it holy and pure Which sometimes means cutting back on unhealthy foods to lose some body fat that has accumulated to unhealthy levels due to gluttony or grief or depression, or not eating anything during a water fast, or eating kosher, or giving up a food for lent. Only God knows our bodies better than we do. Our bodies are not "wise", but rather broken, sinful creatures with broken, unhealthy habits. Even the most fit and healthy person will have unhealthy cravings and give in to them. To say that we should trust our bodies and follow their lead is putting your views on body image over God's.
The book also makes no acknowledgement that hormones can cause unreasonable and ravenous cravings beyond the normal human cravings for tacos on a Tuesday night. Unbalanced hormones an enormous force for unhealthy cravings and they must be fought, balanced, and kept in check if you are going to survive.
The only reason I'm not giving this book one star is that I appreciated their commentary about the diet movement and how it is purely unhealthy propaganda. That was the only good takeaway I got from this book.
June 3, 2020
Callisto Media/Rockridge Press was kind enough to send my sister a copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review. I wanted to read and review it as well - I read as fast as she does, no surprise. #twister
I have been following a SMART/Intuitive eating program for many years and it really works. In fact, this book is so great I wish that I had had it when I started eating this way. It explains everything you need to know about listening to your body and it this method cut down on the binge eating to the point where I only over-eat at a particular, very expensive, local 5star restaurant.
My hint with intuitive eating? Don't go to buffets. Take half of your food home: take your own takeout containers and put half in there right away.
This book is awesome ....maybe I can get my sister to read it and do it ... lol.
However, I hate the cover. HATE IT.
I have been following a SMART/Intuitive eating program for many years and it really works. In fact, this book is so great I wish that I had had it when I started eating this way. It explains everything you need to know about listening to your body and it this method cut down on the binge eating to the point where I only over-eat at a particular, very expensive, local 5star restaurant.
My hint with intuitive eating? Don't go to buffets. Take half of your food home: take your own takeout containers and put half in there right away.
This book is awesome ....maybe I can get my sister to read it and do it ... lol.
However, I hate the cover. HATE IT.
July 26, 2020
This book really focuses on your relationship with food and how to make it a GOOD relationship, rather than focusing on what you can't eat and how it makes you fat. There is a lot of good information about this that is not judgmental but supportive. There are writing exercises at the end of each chapter--questions so that you can reflect on different aspects of your experience with food. I think that is an important step to improving your journey with food.
Good information on eating intuitively instead of restrictively. I would recommend this for anyone working to build a more positive relationship with how they eat.
Thank you to #NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. All opinions are my own.
Good information on eating intuitively instead of restrictively. I would recommend this for anyone working to build a more positive relationship with how they eat.
Thank you to #NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. All opinions are my own.
July 7, 2020
I haven't heard about intuitive eating before so I wanted to check this book out. It's an interesting book to learn about the subject and understand your own body and hunger. I think there's more information about body positivity and anti diet than the plan itself. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review
July 27, 2020
An accessible introduction to intuitive eating. Thought provoking reflection questions.
August 15, 2021
Exactly what I needed!
What a great book that helped me see what I must do now to stay healthy and happy. Thank you Kristen!
What a great book that helped me see what I must do now to stay healthy and happy. Thank you Kristen!
January 11, 2024
A very concise and applicable approach to Intuitive Eating. If you are struggling to get through the original Intuitive Eating book, this is a wonderful alternative.
April 6, 2024
Very informative and a great introduction to dismantling the diet culture and learning to listen to your body.
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