Have you heard of the intuitive diet?

With that logic it might also be a good idea to start wearing diapers again.
Every new diet that comes about I always approach with suspicion.
So far, I’m pretty sure, there’s not been a definite diet that really works (in the long run).
They usually do work for the authors/inventors though.
That is, weight losing diets.

“Intuitive eating is really instinct, emotion and thought,” Resch said. “It’s the instinct, hunger, fullness.”
That sounds exactly what many already do.
With sodas and big macs and sweets and ice cream.
Hence obesity is at an all time high.

Then again, I’m not an expert.
I respond from the gut. ~

That’s pretty much the way I eat. I eat what I want basically but I don’t gorge (mostly) and i weigh myself to make sure I’m not gaining.

Ahh.. the diet for people of average weight who acknowledge that dieting doesn’t work and that our society has an eating disorder, but want to change nothing about their lives, and continue giving fat people advice about what they’re doing wrong.

“It’s not what you eat it’s what you feel.”

@rebbel My brother says he instinctively eats a pound of cheese every day & then whines that he can’t lose weight!!!

I have an addiction to colas & NO desire to stop that addiction. I keep saying that at my age, I’ve not long to live & I’m going out happy. I want the last flavor crossing my tongue to be a good, cold Coca~Cola…that way I can die happy!!! Well, recently I’ve been having a major problem with my legs that could end up meaning amputation. The first thing on the list that I should give up is cola. Dying from the sugar in the cola didn’t phase my thinking. However, having pieces of my body chopped off got my FULL attention. Over the last week, I’ve severely cut back on my Cokes & upgraded my water consumption. I’ve lost 10 pounds in the last 4 days. Now I’m working harder to eliminate Coke altogether…I could easily lose 75b pounds in a month & then I’d be way too freaking skinny!!!

@Smashley I fear that you’re right!!! I never saw myself as an impulse eater, but I have noticed lately that there is where my problem lies & I’m starting to work on that myself. I’ve always told my Mom that it was HER fault that I had a weight problem because every time I didn’t clean my plate, I heard about all the starving kids in China that would love to clean it for me. Just before she passed, she looked at me & said those kids are used to going hungry, just eat what you need because the leftovers will never make it to China!!!

I sincerely hope that you can cut the Cokes out altogether.
So far so good, it looks like.
We don’t need all those added sugars, they don’t do any good to us.
I’ve been addicted to cola too, until a few years ago.
Now, if I take a sip (I did try a sip last summer, from a friend’s glass) I’m disgusted by the taste alone.
Break a leg!
Better to break it than to amputate…~

I like Caffeine free Diet Coke. I know people say diet soda is so terrible, it’s poison, you’re killing yourself, blah blah blah. I especially am amused when people who smoke and drink alcohol incessantly will tell me how awful diet soda is.

No, I haven’t.
Moderation in everything has been the best approach for me but there are certain things I avoid altogether.

I think that diet works great for naturally thin people. I ate like that when I was thin and under age 20. I actually learned to overeat when I was about age 16. Before that I wasn’t willing to eat one bite more once I was full. Once I learned to overeat I was basically ruined.

I think the average person in America is so screwed up when it comes to this that they have to learn how to leave the table a little bit hungry.

I remember Rosie O’Donnell telling a story about her SO who was thin. She offered her SO a cookie, and her SO replied, “no thank you I’m not hungry.” Rosie said she had no idea being hungry had anything to do with eating a cookie. I completely understood. As a child I never would have eaten anything if I wasn’t actually hungry. Not even my favorite foods or desserts. Now, I would at least take a few bites of a food I loved if it was put in front of me, hungry or not.

I skimmed the article but I think this would have worked in ancient times, but not today.

Today lots of food is engineered just for flavour and addictiveness so I don’t think following solely taste would work, especially when our tastes are hijacked.

Intuitive eating is not a diet if approached correctly. I didn’t read the article, but know enough about the subject to say this much.

In my experience, such an approach can work for some people in some circumstances, but as others have mentioned from various perspectives, it requires personal traits (and food types – i.e. non-industrial) that it’ll work with.

For example, when I cracked my depression I became more aware of my state, including when I was actually hungry or not, so I didn’t want to eat as much or as often, and wanted healthier food, and so without any intention to diet or exercise, I lost 30 pounds over a few months’ time.

Hilarious. The concept behind that “diet”, is the very reason most people get fat in the first place.

Also of note is, that they are taking this principle from the stage in human development, where the primary goal of eating was to gain a lot mass quickly.

Somewhat correct in that what the body requires shows in the cravings, minus sweets.

What the body is deficient in , it will crave. ( not including sweets which are addictive)

Instead of vitamin pills which just pass through both the body and ones pocketbook,eat the foods that naturally contain the vitamins needed and most often craved for.

I also noticed that cutting out bread ( or rarely having it) has resulted in a loss of excess weight.

My Pharmacist explained that as one gets older in age the body will not digest the bread as fast or well as when younger.

Most bread products..pizza ,buns,biscuits….I limit or cut out altogether and has worked out great for a stable weight.

I eat sweet potatoes mixed with regular potatoes that are baked in the oven and add onions etc for taste.
I eat fruit bowl in the mornings for breakfast.

Lunch sometimes I just forget having it or have just a yogurt with fresh fruit .

Supper can be any meat and side of veggies.

I usually don’t eat after 7 PM as it will allow apple time for my body to burn off the excess and it works for me,so far.

I look forward to this Summer weather permitting ( no wildfires smoke ) to go hiking and photographing where I bring water,granola bar for light snack.

I stopped going to the free Seniors Festivities where overladen plates are the norm and drinking is encouraged ( too many calories).

I took control of MY health and how to maintain it as I see what happens to those that don’t especially in a Seniors Apartment complex next to another complex of OLDER seniors who had not taken care of themselves as well as they should had..but its their choice and I respect that, but I am NOT going to let that happen to me.

That’s how I’ve always eaten. I do not keep eating after I’m full. It’s crazy to me to see people systematiclly train their bodies to overeat. I get especially frustrated when parents keep trying to make the baby drink more formula when he’s indicated he was full, or nag their kids into eating more than they want to.
I think it’s crazy that we need a book to tell us how to eat!

@rebbel Had a hard day today so I back slid some. My doctor says to have 1 cheat day a week so I don’t feel that I’m being punished. Guess today was my cheat day & I’ll get back on track tomorrow. IF I was an alcoholic, today would have been a DTs day…NOT fun but I’ll learn to deal with it!!!

@ihavereturned Good point. We have been set up to fail just so some corporation can earn a tidy profit!!!

@tedibear In the article, they point out that it’s a non-diet. I finnd that hearing the word “diet” that it makes me hungry. i don’t think that putting the word “non: in front of it is going to change that much!!!

Might work; but if I had that kind of discipline, I wouldn’t need to diet

No, but I am not looking to make any changes right now. ;-)