“Eat like you love yourself”
Read it again…do you fully grasp what this means?
If not, that’s okay.
The truth is, most of us were not taught to “eat like we love ourselves.”
Maybe we were taught to eat until our plate was clean, eat what was put in front of us, eat in order to earn something (dessert), or eat until we were “full.”
We know what all of THOSE things mean…and we know how we feel when we practice those ideas.
Or, maybe most of our lives were spent believing we SHOULDN’T eat foods we enjoyed, that we weren’t ever allowed to have dessert, or consuming food should rarely be a pleasurable experience.
No matter which extreme you’ve been conditioned to believe, I’m here to ask you to release all of it. Breathe it in and breathe it o u t.
Now, let’s reflect back on the idea of eating as though we love ourselves.
To reach this in its entirety, you may have to go through a process of unlearning and forgiving. Allow yourself time for this.
To “eat like you love yourself” may look different for each individual, but here is the general shell of it:
🍍Understanding your body needs energy (calories) to function and following through with providing your body with this necessary energy
🍳 Allowing yourself to get excited about how many different foods have so much to offer (try new things! & fun ways to cook them)
🍓 Being in-tune with your hunger (if your body is asking for food, FEED IT!)
🌮 Filling your fridge and life with v a r i e t y! (Don’t avoid taco-Tuesday because of “restrictions.” Have fun and incorporate balance).
🍪Speaking of restrictions…we don’t do those around here. .
Restrictions lead to binging, binging leads to guilt, guilt leads to resentment, which takes you right back to restrictions (resenting yourself is not loving yourself).
In other words, eating like you love yourself does not consist of restriction, punishment, rigidity, or anxiety about food.
It is the freedom to set a goal to “eat foods that love you back” – AND those that might not love you as much as kale, all while having peace within yourself. .
Think you can handle that?
