Comments on: Intuitive Eating

By: robin

robin — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:21:14 +0000

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By: matt hartman

matt hartman — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:15:40 +0000

I think I tend to agree with the principle, mainly because it is usually how I eat. I have more energy, and stamina when I eat smaller portions throughout the day, when I get hungry as opposed to when I sit down for the big lunch and try and fill myself up for the rest of the day. I think a lot of it has to do with society and its attachment to the “3 squares a day” principle, which if you think about how your body works as a continuous mechanism really doesn’t seem that healthy.

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:43:54 +0000

Yeah, it is really odd. The only possible people it can work with are the ones who wouldn’t look for it in the first place.

By: john y

john y — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:38:52 +0000

i havent read the paper – have not got access to it. but isnt it an odd methodology? to find “a handful of intuitive eaters” and compare them to regular people and show the benefits? sounds to me alot like finding a few healthy eaters in the first place!?!

i think the real problem is that people easily become accustommed to a certain level of excess caloric intake at many levels (developing resistance to leptin signalling aswell as insulin resistance etc). reversing this process is MUCH harder than causing it in the first place. “intuitive eating” is FAR from optimal for the overfat who wish to lose weight.

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:48:21 +0000

I’ll clarify and say that I agreed with the blog not the program. The program is irrelevant to anybody except those that wouldn’t look for it in the first place.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:44:26 +0000

Sorry, I really don’t agree with the idea of eating only when you’re hungry. When you’re happy and completely awake it isn’t usually a problem – it’s when you’re tired, ill, stressed etc that you really can’t rely on your feelings alone.

I’m also a little puzzled as to why Stephen Hawks would intentionally surround himself with unhealthy foods and suggest that it’s still possible to lose weight? Surely he’d be better to advocate a healthy diet, and _still_ lose weight. After all, being thin and unhealthy isn’t really a great thing.