What Are The Benefits Of Healing Your Relationship With Food?

“What did you gain when you stopped dieting?”

I asked, you answered! I love these responses so much. It really makes me so happy when people tell me the good they’ve gained when they stopped dieting or restricting their intake.

When I say dieting, I’m talking about being on a non-medically-induced diet that restricts or puts certain parameters on what you can or cannot eat in order to lose weight. I find it problematic because it puts too much of an emphasis on our food choices and, in particular, how those food choices impact our body size.

Plus, we know that dieting is a risk factor for developing an eating disorder. We also know that dieting rarely produces long-term weight loss. Unfortunately, “fixing” your body doesn’t actually fix what’s going on internally. Because we’re all different, I can’t say that every single time someone goes on a diet bad things happen. But the odds look that way, and at this point in my life I’m not willing to take that risk and I don’t advise other people to do it either.

For a lot of people this “dieting” thing is very serious and does take up a lot of brain space. It can make it hard to eat out and socialize with friends. It may require us to move around our schedule. But honestly the worst part is just that it takes up so much mental energy to think “Can I eat this? How many grams of X are in there? Oh no, did I eat too much? I’m still hungry and I just ate. Now I can’t stop thinking about breakfast tomorrow.” Etc, etc.

Just because you stop restricting doesn’t mean you’ve “given up on your health” — it means you’ve decided that your health and well being are larger than what you eat and worth more than how much you weigh. This is really, really hard and can take time.

57 Responses

  1. I have seen a lot of useful things on your site about personal computers. However, I’ve the judgment that lap tops are still less than powerful more than enough to be a sensible choice if you usually do jobs that require plenty of power, such as video editing and enhancing. But for internet surfing, statement processing, and quite a few other typical computer functions they are perfectly, provided you cannot mind your little friend screen size. Thank you sharing your notions.

  2. Thank you for sharing these wonderful blogposts. In addition, the perfect travel and medical insurance program can often reduce those concerns that come with travelling abroad. A new medical crisis can quickly become too expensive and that’s bound to quickly set a financial load on the family’s finances. Setting up in place the excellent travel insurance deal prior to setting off is well worth the time and effort. Cheers

  3. Valuable info. Lucky me I found your site by accident, and I’m shocked why this accident didn’t happened earlier! I bookmarked it.

  4. Thanks for the strategies presented. One thing I additionally believe is the fact that credit cards featuring a 0 interest often appeal to consumers along with zero rate, instant acceptance and easy on the web balance transfers, but beware of the number one factor that will probably void that 0 easy street annual percentage rate and also throw you out into the poor house rapid.

  5. I’m not sure why but this blog is loading extremely slow for me. Is anyone else having this issue or is it a problem on my end? I’ll check back later on and see if the problem still exists.

  6. You can certainly see your expertise in the work youwrite. The arena hopes for even more passionate writers such as you who arenot afraid to mention how they believe. Always follow your heart.

  7. Simply want to say your article is as surprising. The clarity on your post is just nice and that i could assume you’re knowledgeable in this subject. Fine together with your permission let me to snatch your feed to stay updated with imminent post. Thank you 1,000,000 and please carry on the rewarding work.

  8. I don’t even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good.I don’t know who you are but definitely you’re goingto a famous blogger if you aren’t already 😉 Cheers!

  9. Hello! This is my first visit to your blog! We are a team of volunteers andstarting a new project in a community in the same niche.Your blog provided us beneficial information to work on. You have done a extraordinaryjob!

  10. It’s actually a nice and useful piece of information. I am satisfied that you just shared this helpful info with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thanks for sharing.

  11. Generally I do not read article on blogs, however I wish to say that
    this write-up very forced me to try and do it! Your writing
    taste has been surprised me. Thanks, very great
    article.

  12. Excellent post however , I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this subject?I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit more.Cheers!

  13. Great post. I used to be checking constantly this blog andI’m inspired! Extremely helpful info specially the closing part 🙂 I dealwith such information a lot. I was looking for this certain information for a long time.Thank you and best of luck.

  14. Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you
    relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about,
    why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your
    blog when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?

  15. Good day! Do you know if they make any plugins to help with Search Engine Optimization? I’m trying to get my blog to rank for some targeted keywords but I’m not seeing very good success. If you know of any please share. Thanks!

  16. A fascinating discussion is definitely worth comment. I believe that you ought to write more on this topic, it might not be a taboo matter but usually people do not talk about such topics. To the next! Many thanks!!

  17. Hmm is anyone else encountering problems with the pictures on this blogloading? I’m trying to determine if its a problem on my end or ifit’s the blog. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

  18. I’ll at once seize your rss feed as I’m able to’t uncover your e mail subscription connection or e-newsletter assistance. Do you might have any? Kindly allow me to know as a way that I could subscribe. Many thanks.

  19. Hello very nice blog!! Man .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I will
    bookmark your blog and take the feeds additionally? I am happy to search
    out so many helpful info here within the put up, we want develop extra
    strategies in this regard, thank you for sharing.
    . . . . .

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *