When you are healing your relationship with food it can be daunting to eat everything off limits. You may find yourself still limiting your food intake or calculating calories in your head. You have been used to eating the same repetitive foods all the time, you know their caloric intake and portion size that goes […]
You are not alone if you have understood by now that diets don’t work and you are tired of obsessing and controlling your body and food intake. It’s OK though if you want to eat intuitively BUT you also want to lose some weight.It’s hard to lose the desire for weight loss when we have […]
Why do people body check? People with distorted eating often engage in body checking as a way to cope with their negative body image. Most of body checking is used to control their weight and shape. If the result of checking is satisfactory, it means they are doing a good job on the diet. They could […]
Changing your body to “feel better” doesn’t really work. It feels good only short-term which is why the moment we get used to this new slimmer body we want to change it again. Your body will constantly change and if you don’t accept that, you will be “forced” to constantly go against the natural state […]
Here are simple tools to end binge and emotional eating: 1. Make sure you are eating enough throughout the day (most of the binging is happening at night due to severe restrictions during the day) 2. Don’t ban your favourite foods (make a mental list of all the foods you would like to eat and […]
Photos/ mirrors can be very triggering especially during your recovery phase.Your body may have changed and you may be seeing a shape in the mirror that you have been avoiding for a while. You were hiding although aware that you don’t fit into your old clothes any more. What happens when you dare to have […]
Let’s get right into it. Shame after weight gain I have felt it, you have felt it, it’s pretty common especially after you give in and see the changes on your body for the first time. As a dieter you are so used to being in control over your body and the shame you feel […]
How I worked through my fear of gaining weight while healing my relationship with food (Personal reference: I went from 54kg to 63-64kg and stayed at this comfortable weight for the last 10 years). 1. I had to admit I was fat phobic I understood that I was conditioned to praise thin bodies as well […]
Unpopular opinions but I am going in there: 1. Not everyone eating a salad is on a diet. Diet culture robbed us of normal foods as “diet foods” (think chicken, salmon, broccoli, rice, vegetables…) so whenever we see someone eating healthy the first assumption is that they are either trying actively to lose weight or […]
Why having unsatisfying meals as an emotional eater can be a trigger? When we are thinking about food and eating, the first thought is pleasure and the idea of feeling different than the way we felt before we ate. We are expecting a different experience. If you are an emotional eater and you are trying […]