It would seem to me that removing 'dieting' from your life ought to be a relief! After all, dieting tells you YOU are 'flawed' and MUST do this and that. Realizing that YOU are OK just as you ARE has to be a very nice feeling. Weight is like a desirable object that is always elusive. Even if/when one obtains an 'ideal' weight you are then doomed to dance to ITS tune forever. Far better to live and enjoy YOUR life.

I just found Intuitive Eating and already I feel a burden has been lifted. I'm ready to weed out my cookbooks, magazines, etc., and move forward. Whew!

It's liberating when you're the one behind the narrative of your own life. Diet books and Dieting protocols are rules that have shown time and time again to be harmful and non-beneficial to those who follow them. To me, if you're doing something that makes you feel guilty, less than, or like you are constantly failing, then that's not the thing for you. Something that really supports your wellbeing should "feel good" most of the time. 

For me IE has affirmed that my life is MINE to choose and live. Dieting is a DICTATING system who's aim is to TAKE from me! No wonder my dear body held onto all it could get a hold of.

Perhaps the best 'book' one could have and use is whatever notes YOU want to make of what eating pleases you best? Food is to be enjoyed and not made into the enemy - that is so anti-life ...

Bravo for letting misleading and false directions go OUT of your life 😀 .

Right now this is a scary thought, throwing out the diet books! I have a fairly big collection. I have a feeling that although it could be quite cathartic, it could also be extremely liberating once I get the hang of Intuitive Eating. I am very new at IE and have only just bought the IE book today, as well as the Intuitive Eating for Every Day. I have spent a lifetime dieting and I have just got fatter and fatter. It must stop here and now. My husband says he has heard me say no more dieting before and suggested that I merely exercise moderation. I think that is another form of dieting? I shall spend the next few days reading and "consuming" the IE books. Do I sell the old diet books, give them away or burn them?!? :)

It really is challenging to stop dieting. Its SO hammered into us by medical, media, friends, family  etc. Its like trying to convince others that you see the sky orange!

What helped me most was to POST & POST which got me to let out my fears and sort of give myself permission to do what I needed to do. There is SO MUCH to 'change',, but isn't a change what you are really looking for?? If you can GIFT yourself time and gentle patience, baby steps really really REALLY do work. (A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single footstep.) PS you can post 'whines' - hose helped me to realize what I needed to know and work on.

PS exercise is simply a cliche that has been so repeated its believed by ALL. The dieting 'equation' of food - exercise = weight is NOT complete nor valid. Dieting is the best way to GAIN weight.

Best wishes

Thank you for your response which is much appreciated. Please could you tell me how to do a separate post? I can't find any place except to reply.

I'm not a huge fan of the forum's 'categories' (aka communities?), but if you click on the Community tab near top of page, then click on the 'community' (IE Principle (topic) - NOT light blue highlighted bar, but purple letters below that bar), you should see a NEW POST button to click on.

Thanks Katcha. I went to the purple letters and both "communities" and "Topics" took me to a page of undecipherable stuff. Apparently I don't have the right 'something' to get to the readable page. :)) 

Thanks for letting me know Marloe. This is a new forum so the web page developers need to be informed if something isn't working (I will do that).

I use a Linux Operating System on my computer so I very much understand how each computer (smart phone?) can be different in how it reacts.