Evelyn Tribole

Tribole is a registered dietitian who spent years putting people on diets and watching the weight return, and in 1995 she and Elyse Resch published Intuitive Eating, which proposed the reverse: reject the diet mentality, eat when hungry, stop when full, treat no food as forbidden, and separate the question of health from the question of body size. It became the standard text for the non-diet approach and there is now a real body of research on it. She wrote a magazine nutrition column for a decade and has trained thousands of clinicians in the method.