the first step to overcoming food guilt, restriction, & binging

your food can nourish your body AND your heart/soul/belly/mind, all at once.

are you stuck in the land of “foods are either good or bad”? which results in feeling deprived when you eat “good” foods, and then irresponsible + guilty + uncontrollable eating “bad” ones? this mindset is a lens created by diet culture, and it’s not only fictional—it’s harmful.

did you even realize this deeply held belief is part of why you’re struggling?

suspend disbelief to consider for a moment that this waffle could truly nourish you. it nourished every part of me—through taste and texture, micros and macros (no counting of any nutrients or calories; just knowing the balance through intentional addition of ingredients), and my satisfaction during and after eating.

AND the fact that I had leftovers for the next day #mealprep

I continually ask myself, what are my body’s current needs? and usually I’m able to eat my favorite foods while maintaining a stable mood, energy, and ensuring I get enough nutrients. not every meal I eat is dense with micronutrients. some are more to satisfy taste hunger. others are more to satisfy biological or energy hunger.

I keep in mind through the day what foods my body might appreciate me adding in, and then take that into consideration when responding to my hunger cues and cooking my meals,

entirely new relationships to food, body, and stress become available to you when you bring awareness to the unconscious beliefs and patterns driving your behaviors.

suspend disbelief and consider that waffles aren’t bad. then go eat a waffle, enjoy the heck out of it, and get curious about how it made you feel on a mind-body-spirit whole level.