This book has a lot of great information and advice to help dieters cross back over the fence to adopt a more healthy attitude to food, eating and weight.Unfortunately, it also has a lot of contradictions which a sensible editor should have sorted out.The book sets out 10 principles of why dieters will forever be losing the weight loss battle and explains how to relearn to listen, feel and feed our body's natural hunger.This aspect of the book is great, and there are lots of scientific references to back them up.However, while on the one hand telling you to trust your body to select the healthy food it needs, the authors spoil it all in the last chapter (principle 10) by then prescribing a healthy low-fat diet plan.This seems totally out of place on a book purporting to teach you to eat intuitively.As some other reviewers have said, dieters don't need another "plan" to follow.Instead they need to learn how to survive without the prop of plans that forever fail them.It seems the authors are themselves stuck in their category of "careful eaters" and can't let go.But this is just criticism of a small part of the book.I would recommend "The Seven Secrets of Slim People" by Vikki Hansen and Shawn Goodman in addition to this book to reinforce the good parts.Click Here to see more reviews about: Intuitive Eating: A Recovery Book For The Chronic Dieter; Rediscover The Pleasures Of Eating And Rebuild Your Body Image (Mass Market Paperback)
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