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Intuitive Eating is an approach to food and the body that rejects diet culture and focuses instead on connection to your own needs, satisfaction and pleasure as well as mental flexibility regarding your food choices. It is based in the knowledge that permanent weight loss is unachievable for most people. Intuitive eating recognizes the science shows: weight and health are unrelated. Instead of obsessing about a number on the scale or calories consumed, we focus on health promoting behaviors such as movement, enjoyment, self-care and stress reduction techniques, as well as finding a medical professional that is informed about health at every size. Unfortunately, many medical professions and the media are lagging behind in relaying this knowledge to the general public, and promote harmful fatphobic and negative stereotypes about people in larger bodies.