''Truly life-changing'' - Dolly Alderton ''The only ''diet'' book worth reading this new year'' - Alexandra Heminsley, Grazia Just Eat It isn''t just a book. It''s part of a movement to help us take back control over our bodies. To free us from restrictive dieting, disordered eating and punishing exercise. To reject the guilt and anxiety associated with eating and, ultimately, to help us feel good about ourselves. This anti-diet guide from registered nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD can help you sort out your attitude to food and ditch punishing exercise routines. As a qualified practitioner of Intuitive Eating - a method that helps followers tune in to innate hunger and fullness cues - Thomas gives you the freedom to enjoy food on your own terms. There are no rules: only simple, practical tools and exercises including mindfulness techniques to help you recognize physiological and emotional hunger, sample conversations with friends and colleagues, and magazine and blog critiques that call out diet culture. So, have you ever been on a diet? Spent time worrying that you looked fat when you could have been doing something useful? Compared the size of your waistline to someone else''s? Felt guilt, actual guilt, about the serious crime of . . . eating a doughnut? You''re not alone. Ju st Eat It gives you everything you need to develop a more trusting, healthy relationship with food and your body.Have you ever been on a diet? Spent time obsessing about your body when you could have been doing something useful? Compared your waistline to the size of someone else's? Felt guilt, actual guilt, about the serious crime of . . . eating a doughnut? You're not alone.

Registered Nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD presents this straight-talking guide to Intuitive Eating: the simple practice that will help you phase out diet tools like meal plans and calorie trackers and encourage a more peaceful attitude to food and your body.

'Laura is one of the most important voices in food today. She has a rare combination of impeccable academic credentials, clinical experience and a nose for the profound social justice issues at the heart of nutrition science.' The Angry Chef, Anthony Warner

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Introduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: Why is our relationship with food so messed up in the first place? Chapter - 2: Ditch the Diets Chapter - 3: Self-compassion and self-acceptance Chapter - 4: Hunger Chapter - 5: Weight and body neutrality Chapter - 6: Unconditional permission to eat Chapter - 7: Neutralizing your inner food critic Chapter - 8: Mindful eating and the pleasure principle Chapter - 9: Feeling your fullness Chapter - 10: Eating your emotions Chapter - 11: Intuitive movement Chapter - 12: Gentle nutrition Chapter - 13: Putting it all together Section - ii: Resources Section - iii: References Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgments