If you eat only when you 're hungry, if you don't feel guilty about what
you're eating, and if you stop eating when you're full---you are an
"intuitive eater."

Tips on how to change

...Reject the "diet mentality"
        Throw out the diet books and magazine articles that make rosy promises.
        If you allow even one small hope to linger that "a new and better diet"
        is just around the corner, you won't be free to discover intuitive
        eating.
...Honor your hunger
        Keep your body well-fed; otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to
        overeat.  If you become very hungry, all your good eating intentions
        will vanish.
...Make peace with food
        Give yourself unconditional permission to eat.
...Respect your body
        Accept your genetic blueprint. It's difficult to reject the diet
        mentality if you're overly critical of your body shape.
...Feel your fullness
        Listen to your body for signal that you are no longer hungry.  Pause
        in the middle of eating and ask yourself how the food tastes and what
        your current "fullness" level is.
...Discover satisfaction
        When you eat that you really want in a pleasant environment, you feel
        satisfied and content.  By giving yourself this experience, you'll find
        that it takes much less food to decide when you've had enough.
...Cope with your emotions with out using food
        Find non-food ways to resolve stress, frustratrion, fatigue, anger,
        loneliness, etc.
...Challenge the food police
        Put your foot down and say "NO!" to thoughts that say you're "good" for
        skipping lunch or "bad" because you ate a piece of cake.
...Exercise
        Keep it simple--a little goes a long way.  Try 15 min of exercise before
        work and 15 minutes before dinner.
...Honor your health
        Make food choices that honor your health and you taste buds--while
        making you feel good.


Source:  Intuitive Eating:  A Recovery Book for the Chronic Dieter, Evelyn
Tribole and Elyse Resch, $21.95