Have you ever felt crazy around food? Like a mix between needing it all in your stomach right now and having cravings that you can't even explain? Many people do. Sometimes it just feels necessary - like some primal force that you aren't even in control of anymore. It happens a LOT when you're dieting and trying to be "good." This is when problems start, a lot of the time. By denying your body nutrients it needs, it will latch out and, in trying to get the nutrition it vitally deserves, will make you eat food you didn't even want in the first place. And then there's also the fact that a lot of people's guts (microbiomes) are completely messed up, and there are bacteria in there that are super hungry and will try to get you to eat lots of bad fat or bad sugar or bad carbs (in general, "bad" means "refined," or not coming directly from a plant.)
Our tastebuds have been hi-jacked by the industrial food system. We're not eating enough of what we need, and we're eating too much of what we don't need. It's a crisis, actually, because we are feeding into a system that is simultaneously destroying our planet. If we could cut out all the bullshit and focus on what our bodies really want, this world would be an exponentially better place. This goes beyond body-image and even health - this is the entire planet and human population we're talking about.
I have three great resources for you if you feel crazy around food, or at least don't feel like you have a healthy relationship with it. Sometimes it's hard to admit that you have issues with food because we, especially womyn, are taught that they should just BE thin - without any problems attaining or maintaining that. It's not true! So many people are struggling.
Here are my two favorite websites for helping to not feel crazy around food:
https://sixmonthstosanity.com/- Six Months to Sanity: stop dieting and take your sanity back!
http://psychologyofeating.com/ - (as mentioned above) The Psychology of Eating - the leading think-tank on nutritional psychology
http://isabelfoxenduke.com/- Isabel Foxen Duke - stop feeling crazy around food!
I just wanted to share a really beautiful excerpt from Isabel Foxen Duke's blog:
"The only time a person EVER “falls off a wagon”
is when there’s a wagon to fall off of;
a set of rules, ideals, or beliefs around food that we let determine how we feel about ourselves.
“I was sooo good with food yesterday, and today, I SUCK.”
sound familiar?
and I’m guessing that when you go into the place of “I suck,”
when you “fall off the wagon,”
you fall hard. Like knee-deep-in-brownie-batter-hard.
Not fun, and so avoidable.
If you want to make peace with food, and stop shame-eating cookies in the middle of the night,
Ask yourself,
what “wagons” am I trying not to fall off of?
Where am I judging my performance with food?
Where did I draw an imaginary line of “not okay?”
AND GET RID OF THAT SHIZ.
Because as long as there’s a wagon to fall off of, you WILL fall off of it eventually.
You see,
“Falling off” is not your problem. Your wagon is your problem."
Sometimes it brings me to tears! This can apply to ANY area of your life, not just food and weight and maintaining your figure or whatever. This can apply to getting good grades to the point of doing yourself in, toxic friendships out of fear of letting go, staying at a job you hate, etc. etc. etc. The list goes on an on. Remember this wagon metaphor next time you feel stuck.
Sending much love :)
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| A beautiful quote by Marc David of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, based in Boulder, Colorado. He's been working with people who feel like they've lost their lives to worrying about food and body image, and gets to the root of the problem with them - it's pretty badass stuff. Check him (and his partner in crime Emily Rosen) out at psychologyofeating.com and on Facebook and Instagram. |
Our tastebuds have been hi-jacked by the industrial food system. We're not eating enough of what we need, and we're eating too much of what we don't need. It's a crisis, actually, because we are feeding into a system that is simultaneously destroying our planet. If we could cut out all the bullshit and focus on what our bodies really want, this world would be an exponentially better place. This goes beyond body-image and even health - this is the entire planet and human population we're talking about.
I have three great resources for you if you feel crazy around food, or at least don't feel like you have a healthy relationship with it. Sometimes it's hard to admit that you have issues with food because we, especially womyn, are taught that they should just BE thin - without any problems attaining or maintaining that. It's not true! So many people are struggling.
Here are my two favorite websites for helping to not feel crazy around food:
https://sixmonthstosanity.com/- Six Months to Sanity: stop dieting and take your sanity back!
http://psychologyofeating.com/ - (as mentioned above) The Psychology of Eating - the leading think-tank on nutritional psychology
http://isabelfoxenduke.com/- Isabel Foxen Duke - stop feeling crazy around food!
I just wanted to share a really beautiful excerpt from Isabel Foxen Duke's blog:
"The only time a person EVER “falls off a wagon”
is when there’s a wagon to fall off of;
a set of rules, ideals, or beliefs around food that we let determine how we feel about ourselves.
“I was sooo good with food yesterday, and today, I SUCK.”
sound familiar?
and I’m guessing that when you go into the place of “I suck,”
when you “fall off the wagon,”
you fall hard. Like knee-deep-in-brownie-batter-hard.
Not fun, and so avoidable.
If you want to make peace with food, and stop shame-eating cookies in the middle of the night,
Ask yourself,
what “wagons” am I trying not to fall off of?
Where am I judging my performance with food?
Where did I draw an imaginary line of “not okay?”
AND GET RID OF THAT SHIZ.
Because as long as there’s a wagon to fall off of, you WILL fall off of it eventually.
You see,
“Falling off” is not your problem. Your wagon is your problem."
Sometimes it brings me to tears! This can apply to ANY area of your life, not just food and weight and maintaining your figure or whatever. This can apply to getting good grades to the point of doing yourself in, toxic friendships out of fear of letting go, staying at a job you hate, etc. etc. etc. The list goes on an on. Remember this wagon metaphor next time you feel stuck.
Sending much love :)
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