How to Just Eat It: A Step-by-Step Guide to Escaping Diets and Finding Food Freedom

by Laura Thomas

Free yourself from restrictive dieting, punishing exercise and food anxiety.

Laura Thomas PhD shows you how to actually break the diet cycle and free yourself from restrictive dieting and punishing exercise, one step at a time.

How to Just Eat It is a practical and interactive guide from  Registered Nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD. This book contains more than eighty activities – from journaling to self-care techniques – to help you reframe your approach to food and eating and find an escape from diets and restriction.

Beginning with simple exercises for changing your mindset, Thomas shows how to use easy everyday tools to break free from diet mentality, understand fullness cues, and nurture a neutral, judgement-free approach to food.

Thanks to expert step-by-step guidance and support through the principles of Intuitive Eating as well as other therapeutic practices, the book will prepare you with a range of personalized tools and skills that give structure to a new and better relationship with food and your body.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Health, Food, Fat

272 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2021

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Reviews

[Kirsty ❤️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[thewoollygeek (tea, cake, crochet & books) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has changed how I look at food, at life, dieting and myself. I have followed Laura for awhile on IG so I knew bits of her ideology for food, but not in depth. I haven’t read her first book, but will definitely be going to pick it up now for further reading. This is a book you work through at your own pace and so I’d suggest definitely having a pad and pen next to you for ideas, tips . If you want a better relationship with food this is the place to begin

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

[Sonja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Potentially life-changing!

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laura's first book COMPLETELYchanged the way I looked at food and set me on a new, healing path. It now sits on my bookshelf with post-its popping out all over. I constantly refer to it when I need a boost.
I would say that this book is the 'light' version, in some ways, but equally as good. It is the practical help that some folk might find that they couldn't find in the first book. Personally, I diligently did most of the exercises in 'Just Eat it' and therefore some of what was in this title wasn't new to me. However, it was good to revisit what I'd done previously and see how much I'd moved on.
I'd say that if you like things meaty and love the theory behind the methods, Just Eat it could be your first port of call and you may find that sufficient. If you are practical and want to just get on with it, then this book is probably better for you. I'm glad I have both.
Thanks to Net Galley for the ARC to review.

[Tina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a non fiction book all about intuitive eating. It encourages you to not feel guilty about what you are eating. There are lots of exercises to do and things to reflect on. I read this from cover to cover for the purpose of this review but it is really a book that you need to take your time over, do the exercises and redefine your relationship with food.

[Emma Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been shunning the diet industry and eating intuitively for several years now but there was still plenty in this workbook to make me think. It's full of useful activities and thought experiments to help with the transition from dieting to intuitive eating. All delivered with a pragmatic, humorous, empathetic voice. Excellent workbook!

[Catherine Saxelby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book - fresh and gutsy as only the author can do justice to it.

[Nicola Louise · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just another book telling you what you should and shouldn't do. It says no rules but there are

[Anne Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

Have you read/heard about Intuitive Eating, escaping diet culture and breaking-up with your bad relationship with food but found that you couldn't find the nitty-gritty of how to do it? THIS is the book you have been waiting for. Finally, a guide to "How to Just Eat it". This comprehensive work-book gives you a huge number of well researched, realistic and achievable strategies and tools to help you to build a better relationship with food and to love the body you are in.
Laura Thomas is an expert in her field and her honest and realistic writing style is really appealing. The work-book has a lovely thread of kindness, urging us to "take your time" with the activities. This one should not be rushed. I'm so glad this book exists.