Principal #3: Make Peace with Food Not allowing yourself to eat the foods that you love can definitely back fire on you. Eventually those cravings will win and when they do, you may not be able to control yourself causing you to go extremely overboard.
Allowing yourself the foods that you love every once in awhile will give yourself more control to eat with caution and to enjoy the food without the guilt and pain afterwards. As long as these foods do not cause any allergic reactions, such as being a celiac, sorry, but in that case you will have to avoid consuming gluten for the rest of your life.
Instead of seeing that chocolate bar as your enemy, think of it instead as your reward. I'm not encouraging you to use food strictly as an emotional booster, but more as just being alright with yourself when you make the decision to eat what you want to eat. We all deserve foods that we love, just not all the time. Choose when you want to eat something and make peace with the fact that you can allow yourself to do that every once in awhile. In the long run this peace with help you reach your body goals both mentally and physically.
Pura Vida!
Alica Ryan, NTP
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