Everyone is born with an innate ability to eat according to their natural appetite and satiety, eating regularly and consuming a variety of foods. Unfortunately as we grow older, our appetite and food choices become influenced by factors outside of ourselves, causing us to disconnect from our own body cues.
One particular cause of this disconnect is dieting. Every diet ever written was successful for the person who wrote it, however they are rarely successful for anyone else. This is because dieting is essentially trusting the food, weight and shape rules of someone else's body, not our own.
When you buy a pair of shoes, you don't use someone else's shoe size and expect them to fit your feet. So why use someone else's food, weight and shape rules and expect them to work for you?
Dieting disrupts normal metabolism and digestion. It impacts hormone levels and triggers physiological and psychological survival mechanisms that lead to either bingeing or starvation syndrome.
Have you ever found yourself unable to control your eating after a period of dieting?
So, what exactly is healthy eating?
Healthy eating is flexible eating. It is being able to give some thought to your food choices so you get nutritious food but not being so wary and restrictive that you miss out on enjoyable food. It varies in response to your hunger, your schedule, your proximity to food and your feelings. It is not influenced by food, weight and shape rules, and there is no emotional attachment to foods.
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