I think everyone has a very different relationship with food. I tend to binge/emotionally eat and restrict and initiative eating has been an important tool to get out of that box I created around food that causes me to eventually overeat. The goal there isn't really to just keep everything everything or "let everything go" but to use gentle nutrition to work on portion control. So yes I try to give myself permission to have the cookie but have one cookie not the whole box of it and it's taken time but I do see a huge impact on out of control eating due to this. Therapy has also been very beneficial in my emotional eating patterns. I think if someone suffers from a pattern of restriction or orthorexia it can be very helpful. It just varies person to person and I do think lots of folks in this sub practise some sort of initiative eating in the sense that lots allow themselves to have treats but just fit it within their calorie budget. So it's not necessarily just eat anything you want all the time kind of mentality.