"If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it."
Elyse Resch is a nutrition therapist who, together with Evelyn Tribole, developed and co-authored Intuitive Eating, the foundational text of the anti-diet movement. The book rejects external food rules in favor of rebuilding an internal relationship with hunger, fullness, and satisfaction, arguing that lasting health comes from working with the body's own signals rather than overriding them.
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Tribole and Resch's 10-principle anti-diet framework backed by 200+ studies. Reject restriction, rebuild body trust, and find a sustainable relationship with food.
Read Summary →Resch and Tribole argue that diet culture's rules override the body's natural hunger and fullness signals, creating a cycle of restriction and overeating — intuitive eating rebuilds trust in those internal cues instead.
Foods aren't 'good' or 'bad,' and eating them doesn't make a person morally superior or inferior — removing guilt from eating is treated as a prerequisite for a genuinely healthy relationship with food.
Just as shoe size varies naturally, body size varies naturally — accepting this rather than fighting it is central to Resch and Tribole's model of sustainable health.
"If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it."— Intuitive Eating
"Having a healthy relationship with food means you are not morally superior or inferior based on your eating choices."— Intuitive Eating
"Honestly, unless you killed the chef or the farmer, there should be no guilt about your eating choices."— Intuitive Eating
"Accept your genetic blueprint. Just as a person with a shoe size of eight would not expect realistically to squeeze into a size six, it is equally futile to have a similar expectation about body size."— Intuitive Eating
Tribole and Resch's 10-principle anti-diet framework backed by 200+ studies. Reject restriction, rebuild body trust, and find a sustainable relationship with food.
