Try Intuitive Eating and just experienced a crash and burn? Don't give up. Julie discusses ways that may help you experience peace with food with Dr. Dawn Clifford. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: "That big hunk of metal gets way more power than it deserves." Reba Sloan IE is meant to help one heal their relationship with food not as a weight loss tool. Can you have a peaceful relationship with food with weight loss as a goal? Taking the scale out of your home can be an important step in your journey to making peace with food. Can make steps gradually to checking less or burn it! Think small steps to help get back on track with intuitive eating. Try to avoid "all or nothing" and appreciate you don't have to be all in. Intuitive eating can easily be interpreted in a black and white way just like diets. Motivational interviewing What drove you to step on the scale?  Where do you stand in your body image? Everyone's needs are different. Satter Eating Competence Model Eating attitudes (whether or not having positive eating experiences....important!) Food acceptance (picky eating) Internal regulation (hunger, fullness, satiety) Contextual skills (planning, preparing, grocery shopping, cooking) Pivot to enhance eating competence before easing back into Intuitive Eating Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Dr. Dawn Clifford today's rocking guest and you can email her at declifford@csuchico.edu Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness by Dr. Dawn Clifford RD and Laura Curtis MS, RD Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter Satter Eating Competence Model Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.