More on Intuitive Eating: Losing Weight By Eating What You Want
Following our earlier article on a Brigham Young University pilot study suggesting that an approach toward food called “intuitive eating” is better than restrictive diets for producing lower cholesterol levels, body mass index scores and cardiovascular disease risk, we’ve augmented our research library with more than a dozen new resources on the topic — ranging from self-help books on intuitive eating to controlled studies on the psychology of eating.
While doing some follow-up reading on our earlier article about losing weight by eating what you want, when you want it (“Trying to Lose Weight? Eat What You Want, Says Study”), I was surprised to learn that the approach seems to have been around in the self-help literature for more than a decade, and in the scientific literature on the psychology of eating for at least half that long. We’ve put together two new sections of our annotated bibliography, covering self-help using the intuitive eating approach, and research studies exploring aspects of eating psychology related to intuitive eating. Several of the latter are available as downloadable PDFs.
Also of note, a new website called the National Institute of Intuitive Eating will be launching in the middle of 2006; it’s run by Steven R. Hawks, the Brigham Young University professor who published the results of the recent pilot study.
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14th March 2007
In 1985 I was conducting weight control groups that I called “The Anti-Diet Weight Control Program”. This is how I described the program: Eat whatever you want, as much as you want, without going overboard. Continue to relish the food you like. Appreciate your body and the way it takes care of you. Appreciate food and the way it nourishes you. Appreciate feeling satisfied and fulfilled as you taste and enjoy food more and more.
I now refer to my program as “Mindfulness Weight Loss”, based on my own background and experience with Mindfulness Meditation.