Debunking Intuitive Eating Myths: What You Might Be Getting Wrong

Working in the anti-diet and intuitive eating space has always been counter cultural, getting plenty of push back from individuals, doctors, and institutions steeped in the weight-centric paradigm of health and wellness (despite so.much.evidence that diets don’t work).

The last few years have brought a new set of challenges. As more people have started to understand that health is more than that size of one’s body, the people profiting from the status quo have started to co-opt the language of anti-diet and body liberation to sell more diets.

Understandably, confusion ensues.

Intuitive EatingAmber HansonFebruary 27, 2025make peace with food, honor your hunger, feel your fullness, reject the diet mentality

How Intuitive Eating Works: Interoceptive Awareness - The Science of Intuition

Intuitive Eating is not a random list of rules. The principles were developed to help you better sense, understand, and respond to your body’s internal cues. They help you improve your body awareness or remove obstacles that make it harder to have body awareness.

Strengthening interoceptive awareness will make it easier to notice and respond appropriately to your body’s internal signals, including hunger, fullness, and tricky emotions.

Intuitive EatingAmber HansonAugust 26, 2024reject the diet mentality, challenge the food police, respect your body, honor your hunger, feel your fullness, cope with your emotions with kindness, joyful movement, discover the satisfaction factor, gentle nutrition, make peace with food

How to Stop Binge Eating

Binge eating is consuming a large amount of food quickly and mindlessly without regard to hunger, fullness, or physical comfort.

Dieting taught me how to binge eat.

It started with calorie counting…

Intuitive EatingAmber HansonMay 20, 2024make peace with food, gentle nutrition, reject the diet mentality, honor your hunger, feel your fullness, discover the satisfaction factor

Intuitive Eating 101: The 10 Principles

Intuitive Eating is a framework of 10 principles that support self-care and can help you improve your relationship with food and your body. It helps you relearn how to listen to and trust internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction rather than relying on strict external diet rules.

Intuitive EatingAmber HansonApril 20, 2024reject the diet mentality, honor your hunger, make peace with food, challenge the food police, discover the satisfaction factor, feel your fullness, cope with your emotions with kindness, respect your body, joyful movement, gentle nutrition

The Joy of Baking: One Way To Make Peace with Food

Reclaiming the joy of baking helped me make peace with food (dare I say, bake peace with food?), and maybe it can help you too.

Intuitive EatingAmber HansonSeptember 7, 2023make peace with food

Intuitive Eating classes are accessible worldwide

Featured in: