How do you get to the point where food is just food? 1. Honour your hunger regardless of what you ate the day before and how much you ate. Food will always be the enemy if you deny yourself of food when your body is asking for it 2. Get to your set point weight: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Do you get upset or feel guilty if you eat something “off plan”? Do you beat yourself up with guilt, shame and sentences like:” Why I can’t have more control, more willpower to not eat these foods?” Even if you were a robot, which you aren’t, you can’t rely on motivation or willpower to help […]
When you are healing your relationship with food, trying to listen to your body, end emotional eating you will have confrontations with people around you. Some won’t get it and will think you are “fine”. Some will think it’s another “phase” and won’t believe it until they see the real change in you. On the […]
Let’s talk about food guilt. Many have it and it’s quite a common feeling if you are dealing with distorted eating, if you are in recovery or simply if you are chronic dieter.I have felt guilty for so many years but the truth is, guilt again is just a thought introduced by the diet culture. […]