I can’t remember a time that I wasn’t obsessed with food. When I was 4 or 5, I ate so many Cheetos that I puked all over my dad’s carpet. I was probably 8 by the time I started sneaking junk food into my room to eat at night, because I felt ashamed by my…
Tag: intuitive eating
No, you don’t deserve a treat
“I’ve been so good all week, I’ve earned a treat…” Hey! Stop that! Food is not a reward, and you are not a dog. Food is not a treat or a punishment or a crime or a friend or a foe. Food is food. And one of the most important parts of improving your relationship with…
Here’s what I think
I think it only takes one diet to send a primal alert to your brain that your food sources are not dependable. As far as your brain is concerned, you are starving. Indefinitely. I think it’s nuts that a single diet could send one person into a spiral of disordered eating while another person could…
six months to sanity 