The diet delusion

I've been doing intuitive eating for just over two years now and have come a long way but the lure of diets, that quick-fix weight loss promise is still there. I fight it kicking and screaming but evenso the lure of dieting is still there. Diets don't work, I know that. Diets fail 95% of people who end up even bigger than before they started dieting. Dieting is an external influence telling you what you can and can't eat, irrespective of individual tastes and without listening to the body's natural hunger/fullness/satisfaction/pleasure signals. I know all of this. I hate diets and I hate the press who shove photos of malnourished and airbrushed celebrities in our faces every day making us feel inferior and not good enough, fat and ugly, when in fact these are unreal images of unhappy women pressurised to starve to stay in the industry. Intuitive eating is freedom for life. A chance to eat when I am hungry, to get pleasure, satisfaction and enjoyment from food, to eat variety and whatever I fancy, to eat healthy food, play food, to be able to dine out without worrying, choose whatever I want off the menu, to be happy, laugh and enjoy life. There is no hidden flaw with intuitive eating. It is the key to freedom and happiness for life.