TBR Pile Review: Intuitive Eating for Every Day, by Evelyn Tribole MS, RDN, CEDRD-S

Award-winning dietitian, bestselling author, and co-founder of the intuitive eating movement, Evelyn Tribole, offers an inviting and practical introduction to intuitive eating—which Parade calls “the anti-diet to end all diets.”

Intuitive Eating is a life-changing path to cultivating a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body. Intuitive Eating for Every Day breaks it down for you with daily guidance. This book will be your ally and solace against a world steeped in diet culture. It will illuminate and encourage your Intuitive Eating journey, with 365 practices and inspirations to help you:

• Nurture the ten Principles of Intuitive Eating with 52 Weekly Intentions
• Connect with your body in the here and now with Grounding practices
• Cultivate gratitude for different aspects of nourishment with Meal Meditations
• Identify self-trust disruptors and awaken inner knowingness
• Strengthen your mental, emotional, and physical health by setting boundaries
• Reflect on emotions and cravings
• Practice self-compassion, body appreciation, and self-care

These daily readings—read on their own or as a companion to the author’s bestselling Intuitive Eating—make it easy to integrate this revolutionary program into your life. Intuitive Eating for Every Day offers constant support to help you make peace with food and reclaim and reconnect with the pleasure of eating.

The perfect book for:

• Anti-dieters
• Fans of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook
• Anyone looking for daily guidance on a happier and healthier way to eat
• Wellness enthusiasts looking for healthy habits
• Nutritionists and other health professionals
• Mindfulness and meditation practitioners
• Certified eating disorder specialists and anyone in eating disorder (ED) recovery

My Review

I became interested in the ‘Intuitive Eating’ movement a couple of years ago when I reviewed Caroline Dooner’s book and I thought I’d have a read of this book. It’s a ‘daily practice and inspiration’ book to help people on their journey. It contains the principles of Intuitive Eating and then a daily piece of advice, something to think about or an activity. It encourages the reader to review their thoughts and actions and to really think about why they feel the way they do about food.

I have found this book supportive, useful and thought provoking as I deal with my fluctuating disordered eating (things got bad while I was doing a ‘Health and Nutrition’ course and the continuing ‘weight management programme’ I’ve been prescribed isn’t helping). I planned to read a page a day and then review in a year, but I’m two books behind on my GoodReads Challenge so I’ve read through it today from where I left off (day 40). It’ll go back in the kitchen and I’ll start from day 43 on Monday, even though I’ve already read it all. It takes the reader on a journey to food freedom and I want to go on that journey.

You work through each of the ten principles of intuitive eating with body appreciation practises, mantras, weekly intentions and mid-week check-ins. Day 43 for example asks the reader to notice their hunger signs and any patterns associated with when feels best to eat after feeling hunger, and what emotional and physical signs you get when hungry. Day 234 talks about boundary setting and the guilt which often comes with it. There is a bit of variety of daily actions, readings and thoughts that leads the reader through the different areas.

There are moments of ‘woo’ but it’s not ridiculous and I think this bite-size format will be really helpful for people dealing with disordered eating who want to drop diet culture. I think it’s best to work through it in sequence the first time around and then it can be dipped into when you need a boost.