Brigid Titgemeier argues that intuitive eating based on cravings doesn't work for people with insulin resistance. When your metabolism is broken, cravings signal sugar hunger, not what your body actually needs. Fixing metabolic health first matters more than trusting what you want to eat.
for a long time. It would drive me crazy how many dietitians believe that all foods fit. So they're like intuitive eating dietitians, and then they basically say like, just listen to your body, listen to what works for your body, and eat according to that, and don't count any calories, and all foods fit, and there's no bad food. Eat the Oreos when you crave the Oreos. And it's supposed to be an approach for people that have dieted or have disordered eating in the past, to be able to allow them to have food freedom so that it decreases their risk of like binging on food and staying more consistent. And so the intuitive eating camp, I've always had such an issue with— not that I'm against intuitive eating, but when you have metabolic dysfunction, when you are insulin resistant, your body is craving sugar on a regular basis. So you can't just listen to your body and think that that is going to lead you to the place that you're going to get to with achieving any kind of health goals and actually feeling good in your body and not having the symptoms that are so commonly tied to food, like the fatigue, the mood swings, the cravings, etc.
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