Your previous routine probably was intuitive eating, in my opinion. You were probably in a state where sometimes you ate a little extra and sometimes you ate a little less. You weren't eating a perfectly weighed portion of exactly the same thing every day at exactly the same time, right? That's all intuitive eating is. Anyone who doesn't count calories, but has a fairly stable routine that balances their weight over the long term is doing true intuitive eating. That's what I do and it's really no different from what anyone would call a diet. It's honestly a huge leap fats are taking the warp that into eating whatever you want whenever you want.