Food and Our Lives

If you can do whatever it takes to develop a healthy relationship with food, you will be at your optimal weight for the rest of your life. As soon as you forget about dieting and feel ready to change, you get a little giddy seeing what the possibilities could be.

Sadly, you need to know that there are obstacles to developing this healthy relationship with food.

1. Desiring Only Results - One leftover behavior from dieting that always hurts is constantly looking at the scale for results. Making peace with food means forgetting about the number on the scale and focusing on healthy food and how it makes you feel.

2. Not Practicing Gratitude - You’re going about it all wrong if you feel forced to eat healthy foods. The best shift you can have is to see that you’ve been given the energy of abundance (money) to exchange fairly for the energy of life (food). Living in this state of gratitude is a must - without it, you fail to see just how positive and giving even the simplest foods can be.

3. Focusing On Losing, Not Gaining - Similar to focusing on results is the focus of developing a healthy relationship with food to lose weight - not to gain appreciation of the right foods. This type of focus detracts from allowing new and wonderful food experiences from coming into your life.

4. Allowing Your Emotions To Control - Having the ability to make good decisions is severely impaired if you think your emotions are total truth. Allowing worry and boredom to be a part of your decision making process is the beginning of you forgetting the real function food plays in our lives.

5. Not Recognizing Your Thoughts - The vast majority of us hold onto thoughts about food that aren’t as healthy as they should be. You must start right now to begin recognizing them and finding new thoughts about food to replace them with. Identifying with your thoughts and doing what they tell you to do causes you to lose the ability to develop a healthy relationship with food.

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