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Give yourself permission to eat absolutely anything. For intuitive eaters, there are no “good” or “bad” foods. That’s not to say that there’s no nutritional difference between an apple and apple pie, Tribole says. The idea here is that after eating the pie, intuitive eaters will naturally be drawn to more nutritious foods at the next meal, balancing out that extra fat and sugar.

She says that when people first hear about the idea, they tell her, “Well, that means I’ll be eating burgers and fries all the time.” That’s the common misconception about this approach — that it’s a food free-for-all. But the point of intuitive eating is to eat what your body truly wants by figuring out what kinds of things make you feel best. It’s a subtle shift in thinking: It’s not that you can’t have burgers and fries. It’s just that if you’re really paying attention to how your food makes you feel, you won’t want to eat junk all the time.

But do you actually lose weight? It’s not yet clear — there isn’t a big, solid body of evidence, the studies that have been done are small, and there isn’t much science supporting the idea that we instinctively know what to eat. And the leaders of the intuitive eating movement insist that it is not, primarily, about weight loss — to the point that Resch and Tribole scrubbed every mention of the phrase from the cover and table of contents of their book’s latest edition. But a two-year study Bacon led comparing intuitive eaters to dieters offers hope: Both groups lost weight initially, but after one year, intuitive eaters — but not dieters — kept it off.

This is what a healthy relationship with food looks like:

You enjoy a wide variety of foods. You fill your diet with lots of different foods from every food group, so that you meet your nutrient needs through variety. You do not force yourself to eat foods you don't enjoy (or that you have a medical reason to avoid).

Sometimes you eat purely for pleasure (like that cupcake, or glass of wine) but most of the time the choices you make fulfill both your nutrient and pleasure needs. You eat a salad because you WANT it, not because it's what you think you SHOULD eat. And if you don't want salad, you have something else. When you eat purely for pleasure, you savor the experience and then move on. You don't assign shame or guilt to your food choices.

You eat when you are hungry, and you eat foods that nourish you, make you feel awesome, and help you meet your goals. You also realize that there is no such thing as perfection, and that your habits over time are far more important than any specific food you do or don't eat. You understand that one meal doesn't cancel out all the other meals you eat over the course of a week. You understand that there is a lot of room for flexibility within the context of a balanced, varied diet.
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Now, I frequently get comments like:

"Eating whatever you want whenever you want isn't going to result in healthy lifestyle or longevity. Eating Doritos every day would land you in the hospital!"

Or:

"Sugar lights up the reward centers of the brain, which makes you want more sugar. Copious amounts of sugar is really bad for you!"

Do you see how the belief underlying both of these comments is that if a person eats what they want to eat, they will only eat 'junk', and eat excessive amounts of it? In the first comment, there is an assumption that if they ate what they wanted, they would eat Doritos every day. And in the second, there is the assumption that if they allowed themselves free reign, they would overeat sugar.

Both of these assumption belie a disordered relationship with food. Because you see, if these people had a healthy relationship with food, they would understand that they would be able to eat Doritos and sugar in moderation, enjoy them, and move on.

The answer here isn't to 'force' oneself to eat a certain way. The answer is to address the disordered relationship with food. Because when their relationship with food is healthy, they won't be compelled to eat Doritos and sugar in excess. They will be able to eat them in moderation, freely, and without forcing or feeling deprived.

Because that is what a healthy relationship with food is like.

I believe that the entire diet industry is deeply disordered, so these disordered ways of thinking about food are normalized and even promoted as healthy. Far too many people believe that the way they think about and approach food and eating is normal and healthy, when in fact it is disordered and destructive. The diet industry is dragging us all down into a spiral of disorder, shame and obsession. And telling us all the while that it is normal and healthy.

Men inte finns det tid att läsa spaltmil med trams för att hitta ett guldkorn?

Det jag tycker är mest intressant med RS och fibrer är att det vänder på argumentet och säger att det kanske inte är det vi lagt till i vår kost (socker och vetemjöl) som är rotorsaken utan det vi tagit bort från kosten, dvs RS och fibrer.

Men inte finns det tid att läsa spaltmil med trams för att hitta ett guldkorn?

Men vad åt vi förut som innehöll så mycket BS RS då som vi inte äter nu? Rovor och sånt? Med "vi" menar jag folk i allmänhet, inte dietfreaks.

Men visst är det en del rs i ärtsoppa o bruna bönor?

RS1 Physically inaccessible or digestible resistant starch, such as that found in seeds or legumes and unprocessed whole grains