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Moving from Struggling to a Sense of Peace with Food, Eating and Weight

Why Eating Can Become a Struggle

Many of us learn that eating well means following rules: eat these foods, avoid those foods, watch your portions, and control your weight.

But trying to follow those rules can leave you thinking about food more, craving what you’ve forbidden, or eating more than you intended. Then you blame yourself and try to be stricter.

You might recognize:

• Spending a lot of time deciding what you should or shouldn’t eat.

• Feeling guilty after eating certain foods.

• Feeling out of control around foods you usually avoid.

• Questioning your hunger or worrying that you’ve eaten too much.

• Putting parts of your life on hold until your body changes.

These struggles aren’t evidence that you lack willpower. They are evidence that the advice you’ve been trying to follow may be negatively influencing your eating.

Our clients tell us they feel crazy because they can’t do “this simple thing” of avoiding bad foods. Have you ever found yourself:

• Overly interested in a box of cookies?

• Eating dessert when you had planned to skip it?

• Craving the foods you were avoiding?

• Feeling out-of-control around food?

Our culture’s approach to food has set you up. Your response is actually normal. In fact, there is research starting way back in the ‘60s when avoid bad food / eating good food ideas took off, showing it creates say more problems than it solves.

Most eating guidelines out there will contribute to eating struggles, including (believe it or not):

• Monitoring portions

• Managing macros or micros or whatever

• Counting calories

• Following a specific meal plan

You end up on somewhere on a continuum of disordered eating depicted in the following graph. Based on the results from this quiz, you appear to be in the middle of the range. (The further left you are, the more likely you are to successfully manage your eating and weight.)