A variety of intuitive eating books have emerged as powerful tools to help navigate this new approach with food. Hollenstein’s goal is not only to help you fix your relationship with food but to inspire you to love your body as it is, right now. It includes basic states like feeling a distended bladder, hunger and satiety cues, and the felt sense of every emotional feeling. After giving up bingeing, I ended up feeling pretty low some of the time and even rageful at other times.

More than 25 years ago, registered dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch coined the term “intuitive eating. Instead of getting lost in diet culture and restriction to meet health goals, Hartley encourages you to look at the big picture.In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-pound industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health and happiness. I truly wish this book was much more about how to listen and understand your body then about Lizzo and celebrities and oppressors.

Intuitive Eating (2012) has two aims: to expose the broken promises of the diet industry and to lay the foundations for a saner approach to healthy eating. Someone who has dieted frequently interspersed with periods of overeating will likely lose weight with intuitive eating until he/she arrives at her natural healthy weight. I’m not someone who’s been dieting for years but who found menopause played havoc with my metabolism.She focuses on the fact that dieting does not work and offers up a different solution to those struggling with their relationship to food and body. The book teaches you how to incorporate mindfulness of body, feeling, mind, and dhammas to stay on the path of intuitive eating and improve your mental and physical health along the way. Here are our hand-picked selections of top intuitive eating books, carefully chosen for their depth of insight and practical application, ready to support you on your journey towards a healthier relationship with food.

It is a process that unleashes the shackles of dieting (which can only lead to deprivation, rebellion, and rebound weight gain). Gentle Nutrition” is “one of the only nutrition books I feel totally confident recommending,” said Rumsey.Through her book, Hartley seeks to educate on what healthy eating looks like from an intuitive eating, non-diet perspective. She wound up writing a book all about why so many people can feel so guilty about the food they eat (or don’t eat). It offers one of the most common sense approaches to weight loss among the avalanche of diet books on the market today. As a complement to Intuitive Eating, this workbook offers a multitude of exercises to help hone your skills as an Intuitive Eater.