Another essential step in letting go of dieting and moving toward intuitive eating is to make peace with food. Christy said to trust that no food is "off-limits" and that you have full, unconditional permission to eat anything you want, anytime.
"I know that probably flies in the face of everything you've learned from diet culture, but the truth is that when you give yourself permission to eat all foods, you're ultimately able to decide for yourself what you genuinely want to eat, and inevitably that will include a wide variety of foods, not just the ones diet culture deems 'bad.'" Plus, she said that the forbidden fruit always tastes the sweetest, so you'll likely find that when you stop restricting certain foods, eventually you may not even want them as often.