Welcome to another episode of the Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast. Today, I have the honor to speak with the OG Intuitive Eating Author, Elyse Resch. Elyse is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, with thirty-nine years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She is the coauthor of Intuitive Eating, now in its 4th edition, The Intuitive Eating Workbook, and The Intuitive Eating Card Deck—50 Bite-Sized Ways to Make Peace with Food (upcoming, 2021).

In this episode, Elyse Resch walks us through how she was able to overcome her own eating disorder when she was younger without enough resources about intuitive eating. She also shares with us her definition of intuitive eating, the importance of honoring our autonomous wisdom, and how deprivation causes all diets to fail. I had such a fun chat with her, I hope you’ll learn and enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Let’s dive in! 

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Show Notes

[00:01 - 12:59] Opening Segment

• I introduce our guest for this episode

• Elyse Resch shares about the idea of intuitive eating

• Having an inkling that there was something off with diet culture and nutrition science

  1. Started to look into the psychology aspect of dieting

  2. Letting go the orthorexia she had led to her healing from eating disorder

[13:00 - 42:48] Understanding Intuitive Eating 

• Defining Intuitive eating

• The dynamic interplay of instinct, emotion, and thought

  1. Addressing the emotions and use the cognitive part of our mind to calm our emotions

  2. How we are intuitively driven to survive and can zoom into the intuitive signals that each of us has

• The importance of helping people who have not been nourishing themselves

• Helping them understand that they can't trust their hunger signals

• The underlying foundation of intuitive eating is our quest for autonomy as healthy psychologically healthy individuals

• Autonomy is the bases of intuitive eating

  1. Honoring each one’s autonomous wisdom

[42:49 - 51:41]  Closing Segment 

• Words of wisdom from Elyse Resch

• Connect with Elyse Resch through the links below

• Final words

• Share this episode to those who might need to hear it!

• Connect with me through the links below

Resources Mentioned: 

• Intuitive Eating

• Research Studies

• Within Health

• Anti Diet

Connect with Elyse through Instagram or checkout her website at www.elyseresch.com/.

Tweetable Quotes

“Deprivation is one of the major psychological principles behind why diets don't work or any kind of deprivation doesn't work.” - Elyse Resch 

“Feed yourself enough today. And the more nourished you are, the more you're going to be able to do some of the other things.” - Elyse Resch
 

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