The Intuitive Eating framework was developed in 1995 by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. It consists of 10 principles with a focus on weight-neutrality and an inward focus on the mind-body relationship in eating. This framework is a personal process that focuses on internal cues (energy, hunger cues, fullness cues, how we feel) rather than external cues (calories, points, weight), which dieting has taught us to follow.

I love what I do. More than I thought I ever would. But it wasn’t a straight and narrow path that got me here. In fact, what initially got me interested in nutrition started as a very disordered obsession with food, exercise and how I looked…