Food Rules Will Be Broken
Do you know what you don’t need?
A rule to dictate how you feed your body.
There are obvious exceptions to this; if you have a food allergy, check labels to make sure you’re not harming yourself. If you know a food doesn’t make your body feel well, skip it. But following food rules for the sake of food rules is a massive set up.
In my experience, food rules translate into restrictive interaction with food. This can be physical restriction, not eating a food, or mental restriction, relying on external input to make eating decisions, following a list of good and bad foods, abiding by numbers or rules, as it were, to eat. Your body does not differentiate mental and physical restriction. And the most common side effect of restricting is EATING. This is good. This is protective.
This is your body wanting to stay on this planet.
And there is a different way. There is a way of interacting with food that does not rely on external forces to dictate how you feed your body. If you have a specific concern about eating a food, and perhaps have had an experience with the loss of control with said food, or fear of said food, I am curious about whether or not you are giving yourself permission to eat it, in the first place.
❤️just because you have a history with a food does not mean you’re bound to replay that experience. Be open to new endings.
❤️notice diet culture butting in on a food experience? Notice it. Name it. Challenge the heck out of it.
❤️give yourself permission to eat. Get curious about what you want to taste, how you want to feel. Your body has your back.
❤️be gentle with yourself.
One rule for all: you don’t need rules to dictate how you eat or take care of yourself. They will be broken. And not because you’re not good.
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