I had a mindset-changing insight. I initially though Intuitive Eating was about learning when to stop eating when satisfied. This was diet thinking. I though: it's a skill, all I need to do is practice. What I start to see now is that it is about teaching our bodies that we will not deprive them any more. That is why the first three principles are all about that: reject the diet mentality, honour your hunger, make peace with food. The power of deprivation is real and deep. Messing up with these fundamental bodily mechanisms (by dieting) is bound to lead to trouble. Intuitive eating is mainly a healing process.