Looking at Food Through the Wrong Lens
I’ve tried a lot of diets…like a lot of diets, and I’ve also tried all the other “solutions” to get thin and decrease my desire to eat essentially.
Food gave me anxiety for much of my life. And whatever the latest trend was, I jumped on board. I found myself restricting during the week, binge eating at night or weekends, only to wake up feeling disgusted and ridden with shame.
It was completely unsustainable, and more so it created deeper attachments to “looking a certain way” and my “Self-Worth” being tied to how “good” I was or how “thin” I could get. The amount of space that “thinking about food” took up in my brain was literally exhausting.
It took a lot of work, but when I completely shifted my approach of how I looked at food, and more importantly my ACTUAL HEALTH, things changed for me. (BTW, this wasn’t a cute little shift I decided to do, this shift took me a good few years.)
We as a society spend so much time obsessing about food. We put whole, healthy, nutritious foods in the “DIET” category, and processed, fake, chemical filled foods in the “YUMMY” category. And when doing so, we unconsciously affirm the belief that “eating healthy” means we “miss out” and we won’t be able to enjoy our food.
One of the first phases in my program is a cleanse/elimination phase. It’s challenging. It’s not for a long period of time, but it’s enough time to lower inflammation significantly, AND RESET taste buds. It retrains my clients to look at foods differently, to get creative, and to go from “I can’t have that” to “I choose foods that love me back.”
This small micro-shift is one of the building blocks to my clients’ success. Reframing how we look at food, what it does for us, how our bodies respond to it, and how we can utilize it for all its beauty and benefits will help us shift out of a restrictive mindset. And remember, when we can shift our brain, our body will respond.
Try falling in love with this process so it can become a lifestyle.
XO,
Komen