Intuitive Eating Updates You Need to Know with Elyse Resch MS, RDN, CEDS-C, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND
Have you ever felt that tiny bit of excitement about breaking a “food rule?”
Like finally getting your hands on the “forbidden” chocolate cake, only to inhale half of it and immediately promise yourself you’ll “be good” tomorrow? Yeah, we’ve all been there.
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But what if that intense food drama could just… disappear? No guilt, no shame, no last-supper mentality—just food, doing what food is supposed to do: nourish and satisfy.
No, we’re not talking about the basics of intuitive eating today because we’ve done that before. But I am for the THIRD time (because let’s be real, you can’t get enough of her) with Elyse Resch—the OG of intuitive eating. She literally co-wrote the book on it. We’ve covered the basics, we’ve tackled the myths, and now, we’re digging into the updates, including how intuitive eating fits into eating disorder treatment.
So, if you’ve ever felt trapped in food rules, if “cheat days” have ever dictated your weekend plans, or if you’re just curious what the next step in healing your relationship with food looks like—this episode is for you.
Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDS-C, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND, is a nutrition therapist in private practice with forty-three years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She is the co-author 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. Elyse is also the author of The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens and The Intuitive Eating Journal—Your Guided Journey for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food and a chapter contributor to The Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment as well as a chapter contributor to Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation (in press). She has published journal articles, print articles, and blog posts. Elyse does regular speaking engagements, podcast interviews, and extensive media interviews. Her work has been profiled on ABC, NPR, CNN, KABC, NBC, KTTV, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associate Press, KFI Radio, USA Today, and the Huffington Post, among others. Elyse is nationally known for her work in helping patients break free from diet culture through the Intuitive Eating process. Her philosophy embraces the goal of reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating and developing body liberation, with the belief that all bodies deserve dignity and respect. She is a social justice advocate, a member of the Healer’s Circle of Project Heal—Help to Eat, Accept, and Live, and consults with and trains health professionals. Elyse is also a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Consultant, on the Advisory Board of Within Health, a Fellow of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
In this episode, we’re talking about:
The evolution of intuitive eating.
Common misconceptions about intuitive eating.
How intuitive eating can be incorporated from day one in eating disorder treatment, not just at the end.
Reflecting on your history of past diets, how they made you feel, and the impact they had on your overall well-being.
How to identify and challenge restrictive food rules, such as only eating at specific times or labeling foods as "good" or "bad."
How finding joy in eating can help break the binge-restrict cycle.
Challenging diet culture.
The focus is on healing rather than recovery when addressing eating disorders.
How marginalized bodies often experience oppression, which leads to dieting and body dissatisfaction.
The positive impacts of intuitive eating.
How shifting personal beliefs about body size can influence friends, families, and communities toward inclusivity.
How research confirms that parents who practice intuitive eating raise children with healthier relationships with food.
The way children absorb their parents' attitudes toward food and body image, can affect their eating behaviors long-term.
Scientific research supports the benefits of intuitive eating, reinforcing its positive impact on individuals and society.
Tweetable Quotes
"Maybe for the beginning, you might eat more of something that you have previously restricted, but it takes its place because it's no longer forbidden." - Elyse Resch
"It's not like we're ruining the enjoyment of food, it's just that we don't have that charge anymore of, ‘I'm going to get my hands on this and I'm going to be so good tomorrow, I'll just eat it all right now.’" - Elyse Resch
"It's all about healing. I never talk about recovery. I talk about the healing process." - Elyse Resch
"So every one of us who makes a change in that kind of thinking [ weight stigmatization] is actually bettering the world." - Elyse Resch
"Children are listening. Be careful." - Elyse Resch
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