History
Exactly when the intuitive eating movement began is uncertain, but one of the early pioneers was Susie Orbach, whose groundbreaking book Fat is a Feminist Issue, was first published in 1978. Geneen Roth's first book on emotional eating, "Feeding the Hungry Heart", was published in 1982. Both identify conventional weight loss diets as the problem, and recommend intuitive eating (also called "attuned eating" or "the non-diet approach") as the solution. There also have been religious approaches to intuitive eating. Gwen Shamblin founded The Weigh Down Workshop in 1986. Thin Within, another religious approach, goes back to the early 1970s.
Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch coined the name in their 1995 book, Intuitive Eating.
An early promoter in the recent wave of interest in intuitive eating is Lynn Donovan who published a 1971 book called The Anti-Diet: the pleasure power way to lose weight. Nonetheless, intuitive eating is not a recent idea. "Fletcherism" is defined in dictionaries as eating according to hunger, and is named for American nutritionist Horace Fletcher (1849–1919).
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