Eat, Don't Deprive
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One of my biggest pet peeves is that as a society, we are taught to feel guilty if we have “veered” away from our healthy eating.
Guilt about food is not healthy.
I have treats often, and I don’t feel guilty, actually… I am the healthiest I have ever been because I am less focused on what it means to “cheat” and what it means to live.
The Weight Loss and Diet Culture has taken over many beliefs, and it has become an external motivation to be healthy, rather than an internal one… what does this end up doing? External Motivation often leads to shame when we don’t “succeed,” but what am I succeeding at if I want to be healthy? Did I fail to be healthy because I ate a cookie?
Personally, I fail to be healthy if I deprive myself of the foods that I love, rather than eating them in moderation, rather than finding a way to incorporate whole foods, and love all the foods that I am eating.
Eat.
Don’t deprive yourself because that is what you think you “should be” doing; who told you it is what you should be doing? Social media, the internet, magazines, friends; this mindset is toxic to your health because it teaches you to hate your body rather than love it.