Quotes from Evelyn Tribole

If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it.

If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it.

Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds while making you feel good. Remember that you don't have to eat a perfect diet to be healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency, or gain weight from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It's what you eat consistently over time that matters. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.

come from a place of curiousity, rather than from judgment

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 (and uncomfortable) to have a similar expectation about body size. Respect your body, so you can feel better about who you are. It's hard to reject the diet mentality if you are unrealistic and overly critical of your body shape.

Having a healthy relationship with food means you are not morally superior or inferior based on your eating choices.

When you rigidly limit the amount of food you are allowed to eat, it usually sets you up to crave larger quantities of that very food.

Throw out the diet books and magazine articles that offer you the false hope of losing weight quickly, easily, and permanently. Get angry at the lies that have led you to feel as if you were a failure every time a new diet stopped working and you gained back all of the weight. If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet might be lurking around the corner, it will prevent you from being free to rediscover Intuitive Eating.

Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you're comfortably full. Pause in the middle of a meal or snack and ask yourself how the food tastes, and what your current fullness level is.

Dieting may cause stress or make the dieter more vulnerable to its effects. Independent of body weight itself, dieting is correlated with feelings of failure, lowered self-esteem, and social anxiety.

Just because someone makes an inappropriate comment does not make it true!

You have forgotten what you really like to eat and instead eat what you think you "should" eat.

Children deprived of food in an attempt to be thin become preoccupied with food, afraid they won't get enough to eat, and are prone to overeat when they get the chance.

We define healthy eating as having a healthy balance of foods and having a healthy relationship with food.

Honestly, unless you killed the chef or the farmer, there should be no guilt about your eating choices.

Boundaries are also invaded when someone makes comments about your weight or how you should look.

The moment you banish a food, it paradoxically builds up a "craving life" of its own that gets stronger with each diet, and builds more momentum as the deprivation deepens.

The failure of dieting is that it promotes weight stigma by not recognizing that people come in all sizes and shapes and that each individual is worthy just as they are.

Every diet violation, every eating situation that feels out of control lays the foundation for the "diet mentality," brick by brick and diet by diet.

Unconscious dieting usually occurs in the form of meticulous eating habits.

In our society, the pursuit of thinness (whether for health or physique)—has become the battle cry of seemingly every American.

Although physically eating the food, they were emotionally depriving themselves in the future.

and you dread eating the foods you love, because you're afraid it will be hard to stop.

When underfed—whether from a self-imposed diet or starvation—you will obsess about food.