After the past week and a bit of making peace with food, I am slowing feeling more at peace with my eating habits. Previous 'bad' foods are treats not cheats. I know they will not offer my body any benefit, especially with heavy training. When I have had lots of treats my body feels sluggish and heavy but if I have food full of goodness and colour I feel stronger and feel I can run faster and work harder!
So now to challenge the food police!
This point is based on saying 'NO!' to the voices in your head that tell you you a 'bad' for eating cake and 'good' for restricting calories. I have seen too many of my friends and family, including myself struggle with low calorie limits and feeling awful when their brain screams for quick fixes and they gorge on cake, biscuits and sweets. This may have been part of the problem that lead me to think I was developing Binge Eating Disorder. I visited the doctor and they said although I have some of the characteristics, I don't have the eating disorder. So I have been working on not banning foods and trying to get lots of nutrients from healthy foods and having the odd treat.
Even when I try and remove that voice in my head telling me I'm 'bad' for eating cake/chips/pizza it is always reinforced by society and others close to me; 'should you eat that', 'are you supposed to be on diet?!' 'are you SURE you want to eat that?'. It.Drives.Me.Crazy. Out of all the intuitive eating principles, this one I am going to find the hardest. This voice is buried right down in the sub conscious and society is never going to change, we are all too skinny, too fat, curves are good curves are bad.
The most important thing is how you feel about yourself. Others don't matter, the strength to overcome how others see you will come in time. Changing how you feel about yourself and your own attitude to food will be the hardest, and there will be set backs but with time and lots of positive thinking we can change that small voice in our head by recognising it is there and thinking 'NO! I am not bad, I am treating myself after working hard all week'.
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