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Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain Your Intuitive Eating Practice
For anyone who struggles with food, eating, and body image, Intuitive Eating for Life presents easy and effective mindfulness skills to enhance, sustain, and deepen your intuitive eating practice! Intuitive eating is a great way to get off the diet roller coaster, stay healthy, build confidence in your body, and take the guesswork out of mealtime. But if you’re like many people, you may have trouble staying on track. Enter mindfulness! Based on the popular anti-diet book program, Intuitive Eating , renowned nutrition therapist and meditation teacher Jenna Hollenstein provides powerful mindfulness tools to help you find stability, discover self-awareness, and self-regulate—so you can respect your body and honor your health. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn to practice intuitive eating using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a classic Buddhist framework. The Four Foundations Using these simple and easy-to-remember foundations, you’ll discover that you can easily stay on track with your intuitive eating path, and actually improve it for better health and overall well-being. So, what are you waiting for?
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Published December 1, 2022
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January 2, 2023
I'm a woman of a certain age and a certain weight, which means that I've tried nearly every diet on the planet. A couple of years ago I read the original book "Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works", by Tribole and Resch. The title makes it seem like another, well, "program", but in actually, that book is about breaking *out* of diet culture and learning to trust what your body is telling you. I bought into the idea, but struggled to implement it. (I rated that book 4 stars.)
Which brings us to *this* book, "Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain your Intuitive Eating Practice". Author Jenna Hollenstein is a dietitian and meditation teacher who was trained in Intuitive Eating by the OGs themselves, Tribole and Resch. This book certainly deals with Intuitive Eating, but it is much more accurate to read it as a call to mindfulness and the practice of loving, respecting and caring for our bodies at any size. "Intuitive Eating For Life" encourages (and facilitates) meditative journaling, gentleness, and it draws connections between the way we care for our bodies and the way we show up in the world at large.
While the original book was helpful as an introduction, I actually found this book to be much more practical and useful for concrete action steps. Recommend!
Thanks to the author, publisher and #NetGalley first providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
#IntuitiveEatingForLife
Which brings us to *this* book, "Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain your Intuitive Eating Practice". Author Jenna Hollenstein is a dietitian and meditation teacher who was trained in Intuitive Eating by the OGs themselves, Tribole and Resch. This book certainly deals with Intuitive Eating, but it is much more accurate to read it as a call to mindfulness and the practice of loving, respecting and caring for our bodies at any size. "Intuitive Eating For Life" encourages (and facilitates) meditative journaling, gentleness, and it draws connections between the way we care for our bodies and the way we show up in the world at large.
While the original book was helpful as an introduction, I actually found this book to be much more practical and useful for concrete action steps. Recommend!
Thanks to the author, publisher and #NetGalley first providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
#IntuitiveEatingForLife
June 8, 2024
Not what I was looking for. This book is geared towards people with eating disorders who have a lot of psychological issues around food. If that describes you, then you should definitely read the book.
I was hoping to learn ways to help my autistic child who has interoception issues learn better how to eat since she struggles to recognize thirst and hunger. The author assumes that the reader has no problems with interoception and instead their issue is with diet culture and training themselves to ignore their body. No mention of the problem of being neurologically unable to understand your body signals in the first place and how to cope with that.
The mindfulness chapters are very very basic. Again, excellent if you have no idea what mindfulness is and have never meditated or read a single thing about Buddhism. For me it was all a rehash of what I already know.
She did provide some excellent journaling prompts to ask yourself. I appreciated those and plan to use them. It's always a positive, to step back and truly think about why you act the way you do and to think about what you usually do automatically.
I kept thinking of the tv show Physical and the main character who struggles with bulimia. In the tv show, they have voice overs with the main character's thoughts. Her self-loathing, her shame, her judgement of her body and others bodies, her constant thoughts surrounding food...this character is the target audience for this book. Thank God I do not think like this. I've got my issues but food isn't one of them. It does help me understand better what some people go through.
Quotes to help me remember the book:
you can change how you think and feel to focus less on how to change your body and more on how to care for it.
Mindfulness sharpens interception, the ability to sense and accurately interpret what is happening in your body in real time. Hunger, fullness, and satisfaction can be felt in the body, However, sometimes, with neurodiverse people, mindfulness is overwhelming. They have sensory integration issues and can be overwhelmed by floods of physical sensations. Telling them to lean into that flood of sensations is upsetting and painful. Conversely, they also can struggle feeling anything at all in their body. All of the author's statements apply to neurotypical people only. She does not recognize that anywhere in the book, her slant.
Mindfulness of body involves eating regularly, adequately, and satisfyingly with a balance of protein, carbs, and fat. Getting adequate quantity and quality of sleep. Drinking enough (but not too much) water. Moving as your body asks to move, with joy and purpose. Resting when that is what's needed. Tending to stress in all its manifestations.
Safety, food, water, rest, sleep, movement, connection, and stress management are the basic needs of every human body. If you are chronically underfed, sleep deprived, or in an unsafe environment, for example, it is not realistic or humane to try doing this work. Intuitive Eating and mindfulness are only possible in a body whose basic needs are met.
You are just trying to feel okay. Eating to soothe emotions. Restricting to feel in control. Exercising to compensate for overeating. Collapsing into depression when nothing is going right. All are actions you might take when your nervous system is dysregulated.
Interception is this capacity to sense and interpret what is happening in your body in real time.
It is a core concept in both Intuitive Eating and mindfulness. Interoception is related to hunger, fullness, needing to pee, and feeling a headache coming on. All things my daughter struggles to recognize. What do you do when your brain is wired differently and you don't have this innate sense?
To be clear, eating enough means you eat regularly throughout the day. You eat adequately at each meal and snack.You consume a balance of protein, carbohydrate, and fat, each of which meets the body's needs in a different way. And you allow yourself to eat the foods you like.
Your body is hardwired to seek food when in need of energy, so food tastes best when you are moderately hungry...you may crave foods differently and/or have trouble identifying what you are hungry for if you are extremely hungry. For example, if you wanted a burger when you were moderately hungry but didn't stop to eat, by the time you reach extreme hunger, you might crave something more easily broken down into sugar for the body, like candy. When you eat at this
"primal" level of hunger, your body's priority is to get the food in. You are likely to eat more quickly and to miss out on the sensory experience of what you're eating, which may cost you enjoyment.
You might miss the subtle cues of emerging fullness, and you may eat past the point of "comfortable fullness."
Many people who claim to not experience hunger in the morning may in fact be masking those sensations by drinking coffee. I would never suggest you stop drinking coffee (perish the thought!), but if you do enjoy a cup, eat some breakfast with it or directly afterward and see how that affects the rest of your day
If you have tended toward restrained eating earlier in the day that leads to eating larger quantities in the evening, you may not feel hunger in the morning. How to work with this is to shift your eating to be more balanced over the course of the day. This may involve eating breakfast a few times in the absence of hunger, but with attention, practice, and patience, your intake will ultimately equilibrate.
Structured eating may also be useful if you are not yet experiencing clear hunger signals, if you tend to skip meals and snacks, or if your schedule prevents you from naturally eating regularly. Structured eating entails eating approximately every three to four hours, with a combination of protein, carbohydrate, and fat, even if you're not particularly hungry. This allows your body to have the experience of eating regularly and adequately and prevents your hunger from veering toward the danger zone, which can lead to binge eating. This might elicit dormant hunger signals so you can become more familiar with their nuances.
Restraint theory was proposed in 1975 by researchers Hermann and Mack. They found trying not to eat certain foods or certain quantities of food actually led to overeating. Restraint theory was based on observations that "restrained eaters" ate more sometimes much more than intended and many gained significant weight. Restrained eating causes a backlash that derails attempts to control your food. When you feel deprived, ultimately you give in to perceived temptation. This leads to guilt and shame and more overeating. Eventually, you feel the need to reestablish control and reinstate those arbitrary limitations.
I often begin sessions with "What is going well?" This practice helps you savor what you might otherwise gloss over as you focus on the next problem to be solved. This is great!
The dread of the gravitational pull toward a binge when you are chronically undereating
• The belief that once you start eating, you'll never stop
• The shame of eating your feelings and not knowing other ways to soothe yourself
• The humiliation of feeling food is your only friend, your only indulgence, your only source of comfort and pleasure
• Are there certain foods you can't stop eating once you begin? Are there foods you fear will affect you in this way?
• Are there foods you restrict in some way because you don't trust yourself around them
• Are there certain foods you claim not to like when the truth is more complicated?
• Are there certain foods you claim will make you sick when the truth is more
complicated?
• Are there certain foods you believe are not appropriate to eat if you are in a larger body?
• Are there certain foods you eat differently depending on who you're with?
• Are there foods that provoke guilt or remorse when you eat them?
• Are there foods you cannot eat without questioning whether you should?
• Are there certain foods you limit quantities of rather than allowing your body to determine how much feels like enough?
• Do you regularly predetermine how much you will eat during an eating experience rather than allowing your body to determine how much you need to eat to feel satisfied?
• Are there certain meals or settings at which you consistently eat past fullness? I do not relate to any of these at all and it helps me understand why some people struggle.
The things we feel most isolated about are literally the most universal: the appearance, smells, and sounds of our bodies; strong emotions such as jealousy, loneliness, or embarrassment; feelings of being different from others in distressing ways; trusting our judgment. Reminding yourself all beings suffer similarly aids in rousing compassion.
The final component of self-compassion is not overidentifying with your thoughts, not assuming your thoughts are inherently true and therefore mean something about you. Remember that analogy to describe the relationship between you and your thoughts? You are the blue sky-constant and unshakable-while thoughts are like clouds - they pass through and change.
I was hoping to learn ways to help my autistic child who has interoception issues learn better how to eat since she struggles to recognize thirst and hunger. The author assumes that the reader has no problems with interoception and instead their issue is with diet culture and training themselves to ignore their body. No mention of the problem of being neurologically unable to understand your body signals in the first place and how to cope with that.
The mindfulness chapters are very very basic. Again, excellent if you have no idea what mindfulness is and have never meditated or read a single thing about Buddhism. For me it was all a rehash of what I already know.
She did provide some excellent journaling prompts to ask yourself. I appreciated those and plan to use them. It's always a positive, to step back and truly think about why you act the way you do and to think about what you usually do automatically.
I kept thinking of the tv show Physical and the main character who struggles with bulimia. In the tv show, they have voice overs with the main character's thoughts. Her self-loathing, her shame, her judgement of her body and others bodies, her constant thoughts surrounding food...this character is the target audience for this book. Thank God I do not think like this. I've got my issues but food isn't one of them. It does help me understand better what some people go through.
Quotes to help me remember the book:
you can change how you think and feel to focus less on how to change your body and more on how to care for it.
Mindfulness sharpens interception, the ability to sense and accurately interpret what is happening in your body in real time. Hunger, fullness, and satisfaction can be felt in the body, However, sometimes, with neurodiverse people, mindfulness is overwhelming. They have sensory integration issues and can be overwhelmed by floods of physical sensations. Telling them to lean into that flood of sensations is upsetting and painful. Conversely, they also can struggle feeling anything at all in their body. All of the author's statements apply to neurotypical people only. She does not recognize that anywhere in the book, her slant.
Mindfulness of body involves eating regularly, adequately, and satisfyingly with a balance of protein, carbs, and fat. Getting adequate quantity and quality of sleep. Drinking enough (but not too much) water. Moving as your body asks to move, with joy and purpose. Resting when that is what's needed. Tending to stress in all its manifestations.
Safety, food, water, rest, sleep, movement, connection, and stress management are the basic needs of every human body. If you are chronically underfed, sleep deprived, or in an unsafe environment, for example, it is not realistic or humane to try doing this work. Intuitive Eating and mindfulness are only possible in a body whose basic needs are met.
You are just trying to feel okay. Eating to soothe emotions. Restricting to feel in control. Exercising to compensate for overeating. Collapsing into depression when nothing is going right. All are actions you might take when your nervous system is dysregulated.
Interception is this capacity to sense and interpret what is happening in your body in real time.
It is a core concept in both Intuitive Eating and mindfulness. Interoception is related to hunger, fullness, needing to pee, and feeling a headache coming on. All things my daughter struggles to recognize. What do you do when your brain is wired differently and you don't have this innate sense?
To be clear, eating enough means you eat regularly throughout the day. You eat adequately at each meal and snack.You consume a balance of protein, carbohydrate, and fat, each of which meets the body's needs in a different way. And you allow yourself to eat the foods you like.
Your body is hardwired to seek food when in need of energy, so food tastes best when you are moderately hungry...you may crave foods differently and/or have trouble identifying what you are hungry for if you are extremely hungry. For example, if you wanted a burger when you were moderately hungry but didn't stop to eat, by the time you reach extreme hunger, you might crave something more easily broken down into sugar for the body, like candy. When you eat at this
"primal" level of hunger, your body's priority is to get the food in. You are likely to eat more quickly and to miss out on the sensory experience of what you're eating, which may cost you enjoyment.
You might miss the subtle cues of emerging fullness, and you may eat past the point of "comfortable fullness."
Many people who claim to not experience hunger in the morning may in fact be masking those sensations by drinking coffee. I would never suggest you stop drinking coffee (perish the thought!), but if you do enjoy a cup, eat some breakfast with it or directly afterward and see how that affects the rest of your day
If you have tended toward restrained eating earlier in the day that leads to eating larger quantities in the evening, you may not feel hunger in the morning. How to work with this is to shift your eating to be more balanced over the course of the day. This may involve eating breakfast a few times in the absence of hunger, but with attention, practice, and patience, your intake will ultimately equilibrate.
Structured eating may also be useful if you are not yet experiencing clear hunger signals, if you tend to skip meals and snacks, or if your schedule prevents you from naturally eating regularly. Structured eating entails eating approximately every three to four hours, with a combination of protein, carbohydrate, and fat, even if you're not particularly hungry. This allows your body to have the experience of eating regularly and adequately and prevents your hunger from veering toward the danger zone, which can lead to binge eating. This might elicit dormant hunger signals so you can become more familiar with their nuances.
Restraint theory was proposed in 1975 by researchers Hermann and Mack. They found trying not to eat certain foods or certain quantities of food actually led to overeating. Restraint theory was based on observations that "restrained eaters" ate more sometimes much more than intended and many gained significant weight. Restrained eating causes a backlash that derails attempts to control your food. When you feel deprived, ultimately you give in to perceived temptation. This leads to guilt and shame and more overeating. Eventually, you feel the need to reestablish control and reinstate those arbitrary limitations.
I often begin sessions with "What is going well?" This practice helps you savor what you might otherwise gloss over as you focus on the next problem to be solved. This is great!
The dread of the gravitational pull toward a binge when you are chronically undereating
• The belief that once you start eating, you'll never stop
• The shame of eating your feelings and not knowing other ways to soothe yourself
• The humiliation of feeling food is your only friend, your only indulgence, your only source of comfort and pleasure
• Are there certain foods you can't stop eating once you begin? Are there foods you fear will affect you in this way?
• Are there foods you restrict in some way because you don't trust yourself around them
• Are there certain foods you claim not to like when the truth is more complicated?
• Are there certain foods you claim will make you sick when the truth is more
complicated?
• Are there certain foods you believe are not appropriate to eat if you are in a larger body?
• Are there certain foods you eat differently depending on who you're with?
• Are there foods that provoke guilt or remorse when you eat them?
• Are there foods you cannot eat without questioning whether you should?
• Are there certain foods you limit quantities of rather than allowing your body to determine how much feels like enough?
• Do you regularly predetermine how much you will eat during an eating experience rather than allowing your body to determine how much you need to eat to feel satisfied?
• Are there certain meals or settings at which you consistently eat past fullness? I do not relate to any of these at all and it helps me understand why some people struggle.
The things we feel most isolated about are literally the most universal: the appearance, smells, and sounds of our bodies; strong emotions such as jealousy, loneliness, or embarrassment; feelings of being different from others in distressing ways; trusting our judgment. Reminding yourself all beings suffer similarly aids in rousing compassion.
The final component of self-compassion is not overidentifying with your thoughts, not assuming your thoughts are inherently true and therefore mean something about you. Remember that analogy to describe the relationship between you and your thoughts? You are the blue sky-constant and unshakable-while thoughts are like clouds - they pass through and change.
December 4, 2022
With all the concepts of dieting and health related books that tell you what you must do, Intuitive Eating for Life gives you the ability to find why you have the eating habits you have, and to find ways to adjust them.
The concept of Intuitve Eating is simply to listen to your body telling you what you need versus trying to force your body into an eating pattern that doesn't work for your individual physiology. We know not everyone has identical inner workings based on genetics, medical treatments, and the many various diets that don't work for everyone.
Within the pages of Intuitive Eating for Life, Jenna brings a basis to start the exploration of being mindful of food and what emotions it creates for you, and to acknowledge what emotions you use it to fill. The journal work becomes a key component in a way to start the journey prior to working with someone capable of helping you dig deeper.
One of the best parts is that Jenna explains the beautiful basis of mindfulness that can be applied to every part of life.
The concept of Intuitve Eating is simply to listen to your body telling you what you need versus trying to force your body into an eating pattern that doesn't work for your individual physiology. We know not everyone has identical inner workings based on genetics, medical treatments, and the many various diets that don't work for everyone.
Within the pages of Intuitive Eating for Life, Jenna brings a basis to start the exploration of being mindful of food and what emotions it creates for you, and to acknowledge what emotions you use it to fill. The journal work becomes a key component in a way to start the journey prior to working with someone capable of helping you dig deeper.
One of the best parts is that Jenna explains the beautiful basis of mindfulness that can be applied to every part of life.
March 28, 2024
Makes a difference to view our diet culture with a new perspective.
December 1, 2022
“Welcome to the first page of the rest of your life” and so begins Intuitive Eating for Life by Jenna Hollenstein.
It seems like intuitive eating has really reached a far and wide audience now, though it was first introduced sometime around 1995. The book by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resh is the bible for learning how to eat intuitively, how to gain freedom around food. This book is a great companion. The author of Intuitive Eating for Life (Hollenstein) was infact trained by Evelyn Tribole.
I feel like Hollenstein expands a little more with mindfulness here. She includes “mindful moments “ and asks thoughtful questions, giving exercises and journaling prompts. The book is framed around four foundations of mindfulness. “Mindfulness” she states, “changes the brain.”
The goal of intuitive eating is giving yourself full and unconditional permission to eat. Any kind of restriction- physical or mental- has the opposite effect, causing us to crave and obsess about the foods we are restricting.
This is a great addition to anyone’s intuitive eating practice and provides much insight on how the ways we eat affect every part of our lives.
It seems like intuitive eating has really reached a far and wide audience now, though it was first introduced sometime around 1995. The book by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resh is the bible for learning how to eat intuitively, how to gain freedom around food. This book is a great companion. The author of Intuitive Eating for Life (Hollenstein) was infact trained by Evelyn Tribole.
I feel like Hollenstein expands a little more with mindfulness here. She includes “mindful moments “ and asks thoughtful questions, giving exercises and journaling prompts. The book is framed around four foundations of mindfulness. “Mindfulness” she states, “changes the brain.”
The goal of intuitive eating is giving yourself full and unconditional permission to eat. Any kind of restriction- physical or mental- has the opposite effect, causing us to crave and obsess about the foods we are restricting.
This is a great addition to anyone’s intuitive eating practice and provides much insight on how the ways we eat affect every part of our lives.
March 20, 2024
This is the first book I have read on intuitive eating. I have a child who developed an eating disorder recently and intuitive eating sounds like what our dietitian, therapist and physician are trying to help us work toward. No one has named it as such, but we've talked about working towards having a neutral relationship with food (and also body neutrality, which is covered in this book).
I liked how the book integrated all kinds of concepts that relate to intuitive eating, including body dysmorphia, diet culture, the beauty industry, the so-called "wellness" industry, and care for the earth. I listened to the audiobook, so I probably didn't get as much out of it as if I had read a hard copy. I'm definitely interested in reading more about the topic.
I liked how the book integrated all kinds of concepts that relate to intuitive eating, including body dysmorphia, diet culture, the beauty industry, the so-called "wellness" industry, and care for the earth. I listened to the audiobook, so I probably didn't get as much out of it as if I had read a hard copy. I'm definitely interested in reading more about the topic.
January 15, 2026
really liked this one! having had a conflicting relationship with food & eating disorder since i was (too) young, yikes-
well, some of these chapters/points really made me think! no words any doctor ever said really cut it for me as it never felt like they were trying to understand but mostly selling you a service without adapting to the person in front of them. so, i didn’t go in thinking this book would do much. to my surprise this read felt way more personal than any dr appointment. loved Jenna’s approach to intuitive eating & the journaling prompts / exercices through the book, all seemed so simple and yet, they’re questions i never really think of asking myself!
would absolutely recommend to people with a history of EDs. you’re def not alone!🫶
well, some of these chapters/points really made me think! no words any doctor ever said really cut it for me as it never felt like they were trying to understand but mostly selling you a service without adapting to the person in front of them. so, i didn’t go in thinking this book would do much. to my surprise this read felt way more personal than any dr appointment. loved Jenna’s approach to intuitive eating & the journaling prompts / exercices through the book, all seemed so simple and yet, they’re questions i never really think of asking myself!
would absolutely recommend to people with a history of EDs. you’re def not alone!🫶
January 29, 2026
Let's make it clear from the beginning: this is not a dieting book! This book focuses not just on eating but on other aspects of life that affect your nervous system.
Nervous system healing and restoration are the keys to balancing life in a healthy way. It makes it easier to be conscious of making healthier, wiser choices in your food intake. Bringing mindfulness into your routine helps heal your entire nervous system, making it easier to acknowledge your food needs and wants in a healthy way.
I greatly appreciate the focus on a holistic approach rather than a calorie-counting approach. The guidance offered in this book is managable and realistic for everyone regardless of time and income.
Nervous system healing and restoration are the keys to balancing life in a healthy way. It makes it easier to be conscious of making healthier, wiser choices in your food intake. Bringing mindfulness into your routine helps heal your entire nervous system, making it easier to acknowledge your food needs and wants in a healthy way.
I greatly appreciate the focus on a holistic approach rather than a calorie-counting approach. The guidance offered in this book is managable and realistic for everyone regardless of time and income.
November 28, 2022
Thank you to #partner New Harbinger for our copy of Intuitive Eating for Life.
This books is available December 1, 2022.
Rating: 4 star
Genre: Nonfiction
Thoughts: As a dietitian who uses Intuitive Eating in practice, I was so excited to receive an early copy of this book!
I think that this book does a great job of expanding Intuitive Eating with mindfulness and tools to use. I enjoyed many of the activities in this book and can see using them in practice. I loved some of the resources around self-compassion!
I think that this book makes a great addition for anyone that is learning about Intuitive Eating and learning to connect more with eating and their bodies!
This books is available December 1, 2022.
Rating: 4 star
Genre: Nonfiction
Thoughts: As a dietitian who uses Intuitive Eating in practice, I was so excited to receive an early copy of this book!
I think that this book does a great job of expanding Intuitive Eating with mindfulness and tools to use. I enjoyed many of the activities in this book and can see using them in practice. I loved some of the resources around self-compassion!
I think that this book makes a great addition for anyone that is learning about Intuitive Eating and learning to connect more with eating and their bodies!
December 1, 2022
This was a heavy subject to tackle, but well worth the read. I myself use eating as a stress mechanism, and reading about having self-compassion for myself brings around a whole new perspective for me.
It's great that this book focuses on mindfulness and how it affects not only your body but also how it's tied to your emotions. The chapter on finding peace with food was appreciated, as most people just focus on how food is the enemy, but Jenna Hollenstein has gone in another direction and wants us to make nice with food.
Thank you, New Harbinger Publications and NetGalley, for this ARC.
It's great that this book focuses on mindfulness and how it affects not only your body but also how it's tied to your emotions. The chapter on finding peace with food was appreciated, as most people just focus on how food is the enemy, but Jenna Hollenstein has gone in another direction and wants us to make nice with food.
Thank you, New Harbinger Publications and NetGalley, for this ARC.
December 1, 2022
Be gentle with yourself. What a novel concept after decades of dieting, restricting, counting, weighing, tracking and measuring...followed by the inevitable rebellion against all of those rules. This thoughtful book outlines a clear path to changing our diet-mentality mindsets and learning to trust the inner wisdom of our own bodies. It's in there...we just have to dig through and reject all of the false messages fed to us by the diet industry and the media. For me, this book was life-changing. I will be reading it again and again.
January 3, 2023
Intuitive Eating for Life is not a diet book! The premise behind Intuitive Eating is the it is only by listening to our bodies that we can break the diet cycling that so many of our practice.
This book focuses on the role that mindfulness can play in practicing Intuitive Eating and breaking the diet culture mindset. For those of us who struggle with weight, that mind/body connection is real.
I appreciated the message and tools of this book and appreciate receiving an advance copy from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
This book focuses on the role that mindfulness can play in practicing Intuitive Eating and breaking the diet culture mindset. For those of us who struggle with weight, that mind/body connection is real.
I appreciated the message and tools of this book and appreciate receiving an advance copy from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
December 14, 2024
3.5/5 stars
I picked this book up on a whim last week from BMV because I've struggled for so long with body mage and my relationship with food. I've heard about intuitive eating before but this book went deeper than I thought. Jenna focused a bit on Buddhist practices of mindfulness, as well as acceptance of your reality rather than trying to fight it. She tried to destigmatize diet culture and expose how much its negativity impacted us (women especially). I know I'll be referring to this book a lot, and I feel like I've learned quite a bit.
I picked this book up on a whim last week from BMV because I've struggled for so long with body mage and my relationship with food. I've heard about intuitive eating before but this book went deeper than I thought. Jenna focused a bit on Buddhist practices of mindfulness, as well as acceptance of your reality rather than trying to fight it. She tried to destigmatize diet culture and expose how much its negativity impacted us (women especially). I know I'll be referring to this book a lot, and I feel like I've learned quite a bit.
June 10, 2025
Somehow had missed the whole "intuitive eating" initiatives. This is a supporting book for the work began by Evelyn Tribole in the early 2000s.
Intuitive eating is strongly tied to mindfulness and addresses emotional eating, stress, barriers and more. It also offers just enough in the way of solutions to be helpful, but it plainly says each person's experience is different. Intuitive eating is "anti-dieting" or getting off the hamster's wheel of striving to be slim and rarely making it happen.
Will explore more on this subject.
Intuitive eating is strongly tied to mindfulness and addresses emotional eating, stress, barriers and more. It also offers just enough in the way of solutions to be helpful, but it plainly says each person's experience is different. Intuitive eating is "anti-dieting" or getting off the hamster's wheel of striving to be slim and rarely making it happen.
Will explore more on this subject.
February 25, 2023
Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain Your Intuitive Eating Practice by Jenna Hollensteincis a good supplement for anyone trying to implement intuitive eating. Here, the author brings mindfulness in detail and explains how it is important in correctly implementing it intuitive eating. Good resource overall. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.
April 10, 2025
I really enjoyed this book. I almost closed the book on the first chapter after reading about the author privileges. It was a bit of a turn off to be honest. However, I’m glad I decided to keep going. The book was easy to read and provided a lot of practical advice that gave me hope about healing my relationship with food. I really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the journal prompts throughout the book but didn’t really get to do them. I bookmarked them to go back.
April 25, 2025
I greatly appreciate the scientific and holistic approach to this topic, as well as the profound statements and various challenge ing questions that encouraged me to think and explore deep rooted issues. I love the focus on self compassion, celebrating wins, and focusing on joy amidst inevitable suffering. I could have done without the pandemic references and the section on pleasure, but otherwise appreciated what I learned from this book!
October 14, 2022
Intuitive Eating for Life by Jenna Hollenstein New way of looking at one's relationship with food and diet. With a focus on mindfulness, this book is a great resource. Included is sound advice and steps one can use to put into practice healthy and intuitive eating.
Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book
Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book
November 29, 2022
In Jenna Hollenstein's latest book, you will find countless ways to help tune into your hungers through your body, mind, and spirit and nourish your whole self. Through self inquiry, contemplation, mindfulness, meditation, and celebration, Jenna guides us into practices to help us heal our relationship with food and our bodies. Jenna is a wise and gifted teacher. This is a book for life!
March 4, 2025
This is a really great supplement to the Intuitive Eating book by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. I didn’t really do any of the “Mindful Moments” but this book really helped explain some of the intuitive eating concepts in a different way and helped answer a lot of questions I had. It was the kind and encouraging motivation I needed to continue on the intuitive eating path.
January 11, 2023
Intuitive Eating is something I wanted to learn more about, so this book came along at the right time. It is written in a way that is easy to digest (sorry...I had to!). Be gentle on yourself when it comes to eating and your body.
June 21, 2023
"your body doesn't represent who you are as a person."
There was a lot of great information in this book. Some of it I already do in other aspects of my life so now the next step is to apply it to food.
There was a lot of great information in this book. Some of it I already do in other aspects of my life so now the next step is to apply it to food.
December 10, 2023
This was a fast read through, and a good intro to intuitive eating. That being said, it also clearly revealed how broken my relationship is with my own body, emotions, etc.
Will definitely re-read slower and journal through the prompts in the future.
Will definitely re-read slower and journal through the prompts in the future.
October 24, 2022
I enjoyed this book and some of the chapters. I used it in connection with my company sponsored Intuitive eating program (WondR) and that's helped me lose 15 lbs!
Want to read
January 11, 2023This is an un-diet book. An in-depth instructional to change your eating habits. To listen to your body and get away from diet culture.
February 20, 2023
A great mind and body reset with realistic advice and realistic goals.
March 4, 2023
2.50 stars
Sorry. I didn’t learned anything new….
Sorry. I didn’t learned anything new….
September 24, 2023
It was okaaay. I feel like it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but someone else might have loved it!
Read
September 24, 2023DNF at 35% because I’m just not getting anything new out of this one.
January 26, 2024
Lovely part of my mindfulness, meditative journey.
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