Mending your relationship with food Did you know intentionally trying to lose weight results in weight gain 95% of the time? Frequent dieting is one of the top predictors of weight gain and the top predictor of eating disorder development. This is because your body doesn’t know the difference between dieting and starvation . All your body sees is that it is not receiving the amount or the type of food that it wants at the time it wants. Therefore, it thinks that you must not have enough food around you and there must be a famine. When your body goes into starvation mode, you experience increased cravings and hunger, “uncontrollable” eating, and a slowed metabolism. Your body wants to conserve as much energy as possible because it thinks your access to food is limited. Food insecurity can actually have this same effect on the body. Here are the 10 Intuitive Eating Principles that help you to mend your relationship with food. Intuitive Eating is a book written by two