And when we wrote the first edition of the book 25 years ago, we were not evolved in the way we are today. We were really wanting to give ourselves a lot of grace because-this applies to many areas-you only know what you know when you know it. And yet we were stunned at some of the language we had used. Our third edition came out in 2012, and we thought we had been dealing with that. Resch: We wanted to spend a lot of time looking at weight bias and weight stigma, because we haven’t in the past. And then we also changed the term exercise to movement, again because it’s been so militarized and pathologized in our culture. Elyse and I really gave it a lot of thought and changed it to “Cope with your feelings with kindness.” And during this time of COVID, we’ve really just seen more how important that is. We used to say, “Cope with your emotions without using food,” but has become so pathologized in diet culture. The core is still the same, but we changed the on coping with your emotions. We need to address Health at Every Size.Īnd we actually made significant changes to the principles of intuitive eating. They’ll say, “Oh, I don’t diet, I do the keto lifestyle.” We were like, Ooh, we need to address that. It’s so shape-shifting and so pervasive-we were seeing clients who don’t really identify with the term dieting. We wanted to really address diet culture. But fast-forward to today, and we have more than 125 studies on our work really showing an impact.Īlso, a lot has changed. When we first started Intuitive Eating, 25 years ago, we could say it was research-inspired, inspired by our clinical experience working with clients.

SELF: Why did you want to publish a new edition now?

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