Do you find yourself eating patterns are chaotic?
Just a reminder that you can enjoy something sweet as a snack – guilt-free! Many people experience guilt when eating food, and struggle to give themselves unconditional permission to enjoy it. I’ve heard many people say, “I really shouldn’t be eating this” or “I’m being naughty today”. Where did we get the idea that eating certain foods makes us ‘naughty’? Here’s a hint: DIET CULTURE and its detrimental food rules.
You may be thinking, “But don’t food rules and judgements help me eat a healthy balanced diet?”. Or maybe you believe that some foods are just ‘bad’ or ‘unhealthy’. Yes, foods possess varied nutritional quality, but that doesn’t mean we need to laden them with moral judgements. Such judgements simply leave you with guilt and shame, and consequent efforts to avoid the ‘offending’ foods only succeeds in making you feel unsated. So rather than eating cake and moving on with your day, you might eat cake and become trapped in the guilt-and-shame cycle. This often triggers chaotic eating patterns, and increases one’s preoccupation with food. Diet rules and moral judgements not only fail to help people create healthy eating patterns; they also do everything to create a distorted relationship with food.
Remember: food is food. You aren’t doing anything wrong by enjoying a sweet food for a snack. You haven’t committed a crime. In fact, you don’t even need a particular reason for having a sweet food for a snack. If your body is asking, say, for a piece of chocolate cake, that is a sufficient reason to take pleasure in it.
Are you ready to reject the diet-mentality and learn to eat guilt-free? If ‘yes’, please don’t hesitate to email me to book in your session.