Not one bit! I've been working on this project with my team for a LONG time, to make sure this guide cut out alllll the fluff, and only had the exact steps you needed to create a healthy life and body that lasts. Not to mention, 100 healthy, balanced recipes to make a part of your weekly meal plan!

Intuitive eating is an eating style to help you break free from all the dieting rules and restrictions, and tune back into your internal cues of hunger and fullness meanwhile honoring your body through gentle nutrition and movement. This will be taught towards the end once you create a solid nutrition foundation, so that you truly trust your internal cues of hunger and fullness vs. just counting or tracking

Here's the thing I've come to see as truth over the hundreds of clients I've worked with as a dietitian: I don't count calories or track any of my food anymore, because I've learned how to listen to my body and fuel it well after having a good nutrition foundation under me. But what I realized is that many DON'T have that nutrition foundation when first starting their healthy lifestyle, and to just say "listen to your body and eat whatever", could be detrimental to their health, mentally and physically.

What I've seen DOES work? Helping others create that solid nutrition foundation and becoming more aware of their current eating and of nutritional values of foods - through learning about nutrition and tracking their eating. Once that nutrition foundation is created, and changes have been made based on becoming aware of their current eating and what things could be better, then comes cutting the cord with structure and tracking :) That is when your healthy life truly becomes a lifestyle -- when you no longer depend on structure, and can listen to your own body. But that can't come before you take time to create a nutrition foundation and become more aware of your eating habits/nutritional values of common foods.

Plus, as a dietitian that has gone through 6 years of specialized school for nutrition, I've learned too much about how food truly can affect our bodies for the good or for the bad, to just say "eat whatever and listen to your body" before you're ready for that.

ALL of this, from creating the solid foundation and tracking -- to cutting the cord with structure and listening to your body -- is taught in this guide!

Everybody is an individual, and will have their own personal, incredible results from utilizing this guide and creating their own healthy lifestyles! However, here are some common results others have seen from using this method:

• mental freedom from all the dieting rules and restrictions
• increased physical energy
• decreased overall body fat/weight when it was truly needed
• increased mental clarity
• decreased food obsession and preoccupations
• increased overall quality of life
• a feeling of empowerment and peace of mind - now knowing what's best for them and how to live out a healthy life in all real life situations (without giving up their life)