Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

intuitive eating isn't gonna make you lose weight

3 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Jim Katsoulis argues that intuitive eating alone will not cause weight loss for people who have been overweight for a long time because their current eating "intuitions" reflect an overweight state and therefore cannot be trusted. He recommends cultivating the eating intuitions of a thinner person by practicing mindfulness—being mindful before choosing food and mindful afterwards about the consequences—so that over time better intuitions develop and support weight control.

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Intuitive eating will not help you lose weight if you have been overweight for a long time, because your intuitions are that of an overweight person, and so you cannot trust them. So if you want to rely on intuitive eating to master your weight, which I think is a great idea, what you need to do is develop the intuitions of a thin person. So there are a lot of ways to do this, but the number one way that I would suggest is to become more mindful. Mindful before you make a food choice and mindful afterwards of what the consequence of that food choice was. As you become more mindful, you naturally develop better intuitions that will allow you to take more control of your weight.