For most of us, we’ve been fed a steady diet of the following set of beliefs:

Being fat is bad.
Food makes you fat.
Therefore, food can be bad.

In reality, food is a necessity in order to survive. This means that these negative feelings we’ve associated with food can actually cause us a lot of harm and undue stress. In fact, it can create a cycle that might feel familiar to you:

You feel hungry.

You eat.

Maybe you eat a food that you’ve learned to associate as “bad,” so you internally feel “bad.”

Or maybe you eat too much of a food that is “fine” but not “good/clean/healthy/low-calorie.” So you still end up feeling emotionally unwell.

Or perhaps you only eat “good/clean/healthy/low-calorie” foods but still don’t feel full, which makes you more likely to gravitate toward “bad” foods later.

Or it’s possible you don’t eat because all that you are craving are “bad” foods, but you won’t allow yourself to eat those foods because you believe that “giving in” to those foods makes you inherently “bad” as well.

Basically, there are a lot of ways that we can internalize feeling badly about ourselves based on the foods we choose to eat. Those negative thoughts and emotions cause stress in our bodies and our minds that can create real, medical issues and affect much more than our weight or the shape of our bodies.

Start your day with this mood-boosting smoothie!

1 frozen banana sliced

2/3 cup almond milk

1 Tablespoon almond butter

1 Tablespoon flax meal

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With Gratitude

Linnette

#health #nutrition #coaching #wellness

Did your parents insist that you clean your plate no matter what they put in front of you?
Did you grow up with a family member who was constantly commenting on or criticizing you for your weight or appearance?
Did you grow up with people who used food as a source of comfort?
Did people in your life shame themselves for eating certain foods?
Was someone in your family always on a diet?

Think about how your caregivers felt about food, and how those attitudes shaped your beliefs. Take a moment to share your thoughts and memories right now with the group.

"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison." -Ann Wigmore

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With Gratitude
Linnette

#health #wellness #nutrition #coaching

An important part of finding peace within your relationship with food is learning how to know when you’re full. This likely means that you need to eat more than you’re currently eating.

That’s right. You likely need to eat more food.

Most people have an overwhelming fear of overeating, this prevents them from actually getting enough to eat, which keeps them stuck in disordered eating cycles.

As a rule of thumb, if you’re still thinking about food once you’ve eaten, or you aren’t sure whether you’re full, you probably aren’t.