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The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

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We need our media and our stories to feature diverse bodies and diverse faces and diverse cultures and diverse races, because what we see brainwashes us." It’s not a novel idea, it’s basically intuitive eating (but claims to not be intuitive eating) regurgitated with far fewer scientifically based facts and a different name. However, my experience with official Intuitive Eating and the official Intuitive Eating book is actually pretty limited, which means the way that I’ve referred to it (or not referred to it) should probably be examined. In fact, the book Intuitive Eating and Geneen Roth’s books are mixed up in my mind at this very moment as I write this. Maybe that’s because there is a hunger scale in both of them? (And I DEF turned that hunger scale into a diet.) Once you get yourself out of survival mode, it will become easier and easier to eat what your body really needs - a healthier relationship with food ultimately leads to a healthier you. Weeks after reading the book, and just a few weeks before I went off to college, my mom told me she had cancer, and we both became raw vegan to try and heal all of our earthly ills (it didn’t work) (my mom is fine, but not because of raw veganism, she ditched it soon after starting chemo) (also, I have complex feelings about pharmaceutical companies too, but raw veganism was still not the answer).(Yes I was a raw vegan in freshman year of college.)

This is the fascinating thing about our relationship with food. The more rules we have, and the more we diet, the hungrier we are and the more fixated on food we become. It’s hormonal, and it’s actually a primitive survival response. So people who diet believe they are completely out-of-control food addicts, because that is actually what the body forces you to become when you spend your life going from diet to diet. It becomes this self-fulfilling prophecy. So, in the beginning of stepping away from diets, people actually do crave all of the dense, “forbidden” foods that they’ve denied themselves, and it’s totally normal and okay. And the irony is, it’s actually a healing phase to crave dense forbidden foods in high quantities. What would your body want to do after years of being semi-starved? It would probably eat as many cakes as it could for a little while. 5. As you mention in the book, dieting makes up a multi-billion dollar industry. How can people (and women especially) help themselves avoid being tempted to spend on things like dieting programs/supplements? Another biblical group has more grace but also rules. No more than a fist-sized portion of food as that’s how big your stomach is after all. Great. What happens though when you eat one bite past the portion? Immense guilt. Guilt which leads to bingeing. Or, maybe you have had similar expletive sentiments towards diets and food phobias and weight obsession. This book talks about how damaging yo-yo dieting is. It quotes studies that have been done on what not eating properly does to your body and highlights that being overweight does not mean you are not healthy and the same the other way around, there are some people who are slim and look healthy, yet they are not.And while clearly, many people misinterpret or twist the point of Intuitive Eating, just like I did, what that still means is that I haven’t had the awareness to give the co-authors, and the people trained by the co-authors, the credit they deserve. It's not the best memoir ever written, and the idea of allowing yourself to rest isn't, in the grand scheme of things, groundbreakingly revolutionary, but I love this book. What makes this course particularly different from just reading the book, is that you will spend extra time and attention every week on your beliefs. Whenwe experience resistance to this process, or feel like we aren't getting anywhere, belief work is almost always the missing piece.

Today I am sharing my conversation with Irene Lyon, a trauma expert, educator, and trained somatic practitioner. We talk about some of the basics of the nervous system, the body holding onto trauma, and some myths and misconceptions about how healing works.

I was a chronic dieter and for 10 years. I would diet and binge and diet and binge, and I genuinely believed I was a food addict because all I did was think about food, and stuff my face whenever my resolve weakened. The more I dieted, the more and more out of control with food I became. But of course, instead of understanding the cycle I was in, and how much we are wired to be fixated on food when we diet…I just blamed my own willpower. I’ve had a pretty tumultuous relationship with dieting for as long as I can remember, and I’m sure I’m not alone. It’s cyclical. We live in a diet culture, where everything is tinged with the belief that thinner is better and that less food is better — both things that can actually do a lot of damage and are squarely not true. So, in that way, I hope that my writing and my book can actually reframe food, weight, and health for anyone. But my target audience, and the people I write my “how to step out of the diet cycle” content for, are chronic dieters. 3. Who can benefit from learning to eat intuitively? Why/how? Randomly mentions eating probiotics, fermented food, and adrenal support supplements (what?) on a list of “ways to improve your health with no weight loss or gyms”, without mentioning this anywhere else

Diet culture is actually just a subset of our culture at large that’s obsessed with control, and hustling, and personal responsibility, and hyper-productivity.” Guys. That’s allllll diet. And it’s not intuitive, or intuitive eating, or Intuitive Eating. It’s assuming that being intuitive requires micromanaging. It’s assuming that listening to your body is about curtailing your hunger. It’s still trying to tightly control the size of your body. That’s the antithesis of intuitive. I’ve had body image issues my whole life for reasons I won’t go into here. But I’m taking control now. I still want to be thin because that’s how I like to see myself, but not because that’s what others want or expect of me. And I’m willing now to trust my body and give it what it wants and let it do its thing. I ride my Peloton bike because I feel stronger each time. Not because I must to lose weight.This was definitely a fun, well-researched book. A little repetitive, but with a topic like this you often have to pound ideas into people’s brains. This book could be a little vague and too all encompassing, it could have almost been two separate books with different topics. But I guess, two for the price of one? I liked the myth busting about diet culture and the relation between health and weigh. I also liked that it was not only an anti-diet book, but a life style book. But I still didn’t fully understand how deep it all went for me: culturally and metabolically and emotionally and on and on. And I didn’t see how messed up my relationship was with weight, and how that was actually the core of the whole thing.

I’d read the Intuitive Eating book a few years before this and learned about how dieting wires you to feel out of control with food, but when I’d tried it, it didn’t “work” for me. I still felt out of control around food. But what this new realization had made me realized, is that all the time I thought I as intuitive eating, I was not. I was subconsciously micromanaging everything. I was still trying to eat the smallest amount possible, and I was still trying to be as thin as possible. And I wondered… is that why I still feel out of control with food? Because I never actually stopped dieting? I did them all. I’m not kidding. Starvation, cabbage soup, Atkins’, South Beach, Weight Watchers x4 (because each time I was sure that this time I’ll be able to keep within my points and not starve and agonize over how I’d eaten all my points and would be having water popsicles for dinner) Nutrisystem x3 (because each time I was sure the food was better), LA Weightloss, 21-Day Fix, several rounds of the hcg diet (the worst thing I ever did to my body but 50 lbs lost in two months was worth it then), Ideal Protein, countless diet pills, and finally, keto. And these are the more mainstream diets. You know who can’t take a little “rest” from their job and responsibilities? People who pay their OWN rent. People with bills. Single parents. Single people. You know who doesn’t GAF about not nailing their off Broadway audition? See above list… First of all, Intuitive Eating is a book written by two registered dietitian nutritionists, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, that came out in 1995. The book is revolutionary in its genre and field, completely evidence based, and I recommend you read it.I love self-help as much as the next girl, but the information can be really tough to apply. I also have a really toxic relationship with diet books (and diets in general) because they are easy —eat this, not that, and you’ve done it. Everything is laid out for me. This perfectly melds the two. Dooner includes exercises and homework throughout the book to help you apply her advice to your lifestyle. She isn’t telling you to stop eating burgers or to eat a salad for lunch every day. She focuses on healing your relationship and emotional attachment to food –which in turn, has had a very positive effect on my body image and how I look at food and eating. I don’t feel compelled to get take-out when I’ve had a bad day because I understand that isn’t what I need to feel good. I also don’t hesitate to go for the office donuts if they look good and my body feels hungry.

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