Unfortunately, everything that comes from abroad, even something good as in the case of Intuitive Eating, in Italy is presented in the wrong world, perhaps even in good faith. And so the few people in Italy who talk about Intuitive Eating often show they do NOT understand the principles of Intuitive Eating, or intuitive eating . So they speak of non-existent rules, of right or wrong foods, I have even seen grids and diagrams that explain what to eat from what to avoid. One of the rules of intuitive eating is that there are no rules in intuitive eating.
I explain you.

If I want to make peace with my body and peace with food, I cannot think of diverting my diet to specific foods and demonize others , nor can I think of eating intuitively by counting calories , paying too much attention to the quality of food (ask yourself which fish we take is right, stress the waiter to find out if there are sulphites in the house wine that one time a month when you go out to eat out maybe not, it’s a bit excessive) or macros .
Otherwise I will not do intuitive eating, but I will be following yet another food plan .

Intuitive Eating was born in response to all people who, hoping to improve their health and fitness (or both), have gone on a diet not once but a thousand times, to the point of becoming obsessive about food . In response to broad-spectrum eating disorders, therefore not only anorexia and bulimia, but orthorexia, binge eating and other disorders that have become more frequent in recent years. To these people, you cannot give rules. 
The reason is simple: the person who has to make peace with himself and his body must learn to accept himself, and learn to accept food without prejudice or demonization. This obviously does not mean that if one is celiac he must eat gluten, it must all be seen from the point of view of general health, only we must not put further stakes.
This is because people with an eating disorder believe the rules, impose rules on themselves, and impose them on others. They are very good at this. 
Those who create rules of any kind in intuitive eating are not really doing intuitive eating, they are simply creating a new mindset.
True intuitive eatersthey never think about the nature of their hunger. If they are hungry they eat.
If you create the hunger rule or the hunger scale (like this one), you are creating common sense rules no doubt, but it is not “eating instinctively”.

At this point, a question will arise for many: yes, but by doing so, how do overweight or obese people, without rules, eat the right food for their health?
Well, personally I would never recommend intuitive eating to a person with overweight or obesity problems. 
These people must undergo food re -education , this is because their “sense of satiety” does not involve the same brain areas as thin people, as this study establishes.  Therefore, you cannot tell them: “listen to your sense of hunger and satiety”. The same thing happens to people with years of eating disorders or with years of intense calorie restrictions: it has been seen that the hypothalamus in these cases does not regulate the production of hunger hormones in a balanced way.
Same thing happens if we have been eating a poorly nutritious diet for years. 
In this case, yes, it is better to establish some first rules, exercises or methods to feel hunger, as this scientist states in a three-year study between intuitive eaters and dieters , that is, between people who have been asked to follow the ten principles of intuitive eating and people who have been put on a diet with rules.
For all other cases, however, intuitive eating is useful for living more peacefully , breaking the vicious circle of diets AND RULES, making peace with ALL food, not just what we think is right and sane and ok.
Only in this way, we will be free to choose, to make more conscious food choices without experiencing deprivation.
For this it is necessary that Intuitive Eating, in the first phase at least, be as liberating and deregulated as possible.

To learn more, read:
GUIDE TO INTUITIVE EATING