Feeling guilty over food choices just leaves us guiltier and obsessive. The guilt and beating ourselves up for what we ate doesn’t help or serve us. It’s quite the opposite.
Does the guilt or berating make you
fit or healthier any quicker? Nope, I would have to guess, you will continue to make choices that don't serve you well. They tend to move you away from your goals and intentions.
If it did work or solve the problem, we would all be fit and have perfect eating, but perfect eating does not exist either.
Guilt makes things worse. One of the focuses over in my Maintain, Don’t Gain Coaching Group this week is letting go of the guilt and the morality we place on foods.
Guilt is paralyzing. It stops us from taking action and
moving forward for the better. We then move into the all – or- nothing phase. I’m either gonna eat perfect, or not at all and say eff it, or I’ll just start eating better on Jan. 1st. How many times have we said this? Too many to count.
I’ve done that more times that I can count. My relationship with food and my body was awful. It was a downward
cycle for many years. Every week, I was starting again on Monday, or I was dieting harder and restricting more and more.
That was until I did the work to heal. I began to view food as food - food is just that - food. All foods serve a purpose whether it's a bowl of oatmeal, some fried chicken, some
broccoli, or a turkey sandwich.
I had to drop the morality that I learned to associate with food. Was it easy? Nope. Is it possible? Yes, with practice, effort, and grace.
Does labeling foods clean, good or bad actually fix your relationship with food or your body? Again, No. Does eating so-called clean foods instantly change your body composition? Do you have to be miserable to change your body composition? Nope.
