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Sep 23, 2016 · What we put on our tables tells a mighty important story. In my time so far as a Research Fellow at University of Tulsa, I’ve come to appreciate globalization of our food on an entirely new level. Everything is connected – seeds, weather, harvests, shipping, pricing, grocery store availability, history, cooking, healthy digestion.
- Step 1: Media Friend Or Foe?
- Step 2: Decide and Commit
- Step 3: Tell Yourself The Truth
- Step 4: Take Action
- Step 5: Know Your Triggers
- Step 6: Allow It Be Hard
- Step 7: Experiment
- Step 8: Feel Your Feelings
- Step 9: Patience
- Step 10: Watch This
We need to question most of the media. We live in a culture where the media tells us that thin = happy, thin = successful, thin = worthy. The media generally promotes an “ideal” body shape and size and when we compare ourselves to this ideal, it often drives us into self-judgement leading to self-hate and feeling “not good enough”. Let’s stop buyin...
Make a decision and commit to ending the food and body fight. Make peace your focus and intention. Sign a peace treaty with your body! Here is one as a gift for you.
Tell yourself the truth about your relationship with your body and food. How has this struggle served you? Has it allowed you to have excuses not to do the things you want? Who would you be if you were not at war with food and your body?
Making peace is an active process – it’s not a passive thought. Taking action towards peace means noticing your judgements about your body or your eating and choosing to let them go or replacing these negative thought patterns with neutral or positive thoughts. It takes awareness and patience. It means not being tempted by a new diet or quick fix. ...
Get to know your triggersto body bash, to binge eat or overeat. What are they? Social events, parties, going to the beach, certain people, work events, “comparisonitis”? If you are aware of your triggers, you can plan for them and work around them.
Don’t expect this to be easy! Can you allow it to be difficult? Even though it may be difficult, it does not need to mean suffering. The way to peace with food and your body can be difficult at times – most change is hard. When we resist the change and push against it, it causes suffering – if we allow it to be difficult – it simply becomes hard wo...
Try different approaches – see what works and what doesn’t work. Experiments are not meant to be perfect. What I know “for sure” is that elimination, diets, willpower and control do not work. They just lead to overeating and more self-hate.
Easier said than done! We humans are wired for pleasure and to avoid pain. Most of us were not taught how to deal with our emotions. Our typical response to discomfort is to flee, deny or repress. If you find it very hard to deal with emotions and the only way out is to eat then learn to eat emotionally in a mindful way– emotional eating does not n...
Be patient it’s a process! It’s almost like a tango – 2 steps forward, 1 step back, 1 step side-ways and 1 forward again. Change is slow. Embrace the process.
Take a look at these videos of Emma Thompson talking about body image and dieting. Rinse – Repeat – Rinse again. What I have learned and continue to learn is that the path to a peaceful relationship with food is definitely not peaceful neither is it a linear journey. Being at peace with food and your body does not mean you will never overeat again,...
Aug 16, 2018 · Step 5. Make sure you keep enough of the food around to create a sense of abundance, so you know that it will be there when you want it. Continue to give yourself permission to eat it. This process will not be easy and if you’ve been restricting foods for a while, it can be really scary.
Aug 9, 2017 · A lot of Intuitive Eating practitioners (myself included) talk about helping people “make peace with food”, but what exactly does that mean?
Making peace with food. The goal of this principle is to give yourself unconditional permission to eat all foods, whenever you’re hungry, and without feeling like you have to make adjustments or sacrifices if you “screw up” (1). Take a minute right now, and think about foods that diet culture has taught you are "good", and those you've ...
By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN, CD. This is the third post in a 10-part series looking at the principles of Intuitive Eating. Last week’s post was on Principle 2: Honor Your Hunger. OK. Let’s talk about about Principle 3: Make peace with food. This principle is about unconditional permission to eat, and this concept is one where new Intuitive ...
Oct 3, 2024 · When you make peace with food, you reject toxic diet messages and focus on health, self-care, and intuitive eating. Legalize All Foods Avoid labeling foods as “good” or ‘bad”.
