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How I Established A Healthy Relationship With Food
by eating whatever I feel like.
I know there are some people out there who find it beneficial to follow a diet, have boxed meals delivered to them daily or to commit themselves to a regime of intermittent fasting. I am far from dismissing these ways to eat healthy. We are all wired differently and therefore need different things.
If your default is a “can’t be bothered” attitude, then some self-imposed discipline may serve you well. But there are also people like me, who, by default, are hard on themselves whenever they don’t succeed in executing a pre-conceived plan. And that is counterproductive — because we all fail at some point.
So my path of self-improvement — including improving my relationship with food — is a constant strive for a balance between goal pursuit and enjoying the process.
Trying my best while taking it easy on myself.
Reaching out for “perfection” — and at the same time learning how to enjoy life exactly as it is right now.
Allowing myself to eat whatever I feel like proved to be my best strategy with food so far. Does it sound ridiculous as a way to improve my health and well-being? Only if you think that “eating whatever I feel like” must be paired up with mindlessness.
