Evelyn Tribole
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first heard Jan 2025
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We Can Do Hard Things · What Is Intuitive Eating? Evelyn Tribole on Trusting Your Body · 16 Jan 2025
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In fact, I've got to tell you, you entered my heart during COVID when your book tour got canceled and you were sitting on your couch in your colorful jacket thinking, screw it, I'm going to read from my book in my presentation jacket. And that's when I knew I loved you. Oh, thank you. I read your book back then, too. So.
Well, so I have a sense, but I don't want to assume anything. So that's the best way to go. Not to assume for me.
You know, it's so interesting that you come to that perspective of a child because that's where our research is rooted, that kids are natural intuitive eaters.
And, you know, the thing that I think is important to help in the understanding of this, this all got started because Elise and I were witnessing the suffering for so many people dieting, so many people outsourcing their eating decisions to some guru, some expert, some meal plan at the expense of losing trust in themselves, trust in their abilities.
I can't tell you the amount of women I've had in my office who are crying. Very, very smart, successful women like... they'll say, I know the calories of a single pea and I don't know how to fucking eat. And that kind of is the background of this. And then to answer your question, what is it? It's basically you are in charge of your eating by listening to the messages of your body.
And if we get into a little bit of neuroscience, it's based on interceptive awareness.
Our bodies give us these amazing text messages, letting us know how we're feeling, whether we have to go to the bathroom, whether we're anxious because of a heart rate or whether we're hungry or we're full. And we're in touch with that. It's powerful, powerful information. The challenge right now, people are at war with their bodies and they don't trust the messenger.
So we have a lot of work to do, Glennon.
Yes. You got that right. Absolutely.
Wow, I've never heard anyone ask it to me in that way, but I think you're dead on. I think about the book, Rage Becomes Her, and it makes the argument of the same issue, that women have been angry for so long, and there's this fear that if we let it out, it's gonna be this amazing rage. And yet we also know with anger and rage, there's energy that can compel us to make changes and so on.
And when it comes to primal hunger, the thing I find with a lot of people is they really underestimate the power of biology. You know, an analogy I love giving and perhaps because I love to surf when I'm in the ocean all the time.
You know, when a big set comes, you go under and you hold your breath, you hold your breath and you hope to God when you come back up, there's not another way because you have to hold your breath longer. And when you finally hold your breath long, long, long, long, and you finally it's clear to breathe, you inhale this gasp and no one says, oh, my God, you have lost the control breathing.
You need to manage it. You need to be on a breathing plan. And, and yet, because, you know, and this is our survival mechanism, right? To live. And we are wired that same way when it comes to nourishing our body, because without food, we will die. And I think because we have food 24 seven, we can door dash it. We can do all kinds of stuff. We really don't appreciate how strong that drive is.
And so when you're walking around chronically hungry and you've got this fear, I'm one bite away from a binge. That's another way I've heard it describing. My response is, you know, it's understandable because on a biological level, your cells know, your cells know like, she hasn't been feeding me enough and I've been working out so hard and I'm so tired.
And so part of it is taking that brave risk and that brave leap of faith on starting to feed your body, knowing that that's part of the antidote. But when you're in that place of fear, you know, I really, I tell my patients, I respect the fear because fear
fear gets in the way of doing a lot of things we don't want it to hijack us but at the same time we need to look okay what do I need to feel safe in order to add this particular food to my eating in order to nourish my body and looking at those kinds of aspects so yeah there's a lot a lot there I now believe I'm in this newest iteration of recovery and I now do believe that I have a internal
I actually really get it. And I respect that because again, there's a lot of fear to get to that place where you're at.
That's amazing that you're at that place that you have cultivated that trust in spite of the many years of being involved in disordered eating or eating disorders, which to me is a great message of hope for all your listeners out there who are struggling, whether they're on the edge of an eating disorder, disordered eating that, you know what, it is possible to recover.
It is possible to reclaim this self-trust. But it takes work, as you know.
It's so complex, as you know. So one exercise I like to do with my patients is I call it your body lineage, and that is looking at your family of origin. What was your earliest message of what a body should look like and how a body should be treated? We look at parents, we look at the messaging through the life cycle up to the age of someone is seeing me. We look at siblings.
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