What is Intuitive Eating, Really?

I remember when I picked up the book Intuitive Eating for the first time. It blew my mind.

The idea that weight was not inextricably linked to health, that pursuing intentional weight loss was correlated to future weight gain, that dieting was a primary predictor of eating disorder development, and that meticulously measuring and tracking every morsel of food that crossed one’s lips was disordered eating was all brand-new information to me.

So much of my training to become a dietitian centered around how to help people control their food more. The notion that, a key to building a healthier relationship with food was actually to control less was kind of mind-boggling.