It’s soooooo important to be able to say what you want or what you think. Or express what you don’t want or feel uncomfortable with. Even at the risk of making someone upset with you.
If you can’t risk hurting someone else’s feelings, you risk hurting yourself.
What your mind can’t assimilate (understand) and your mouth can’t articulate (say), your body will demonstrate (gaining weight).
And weight gain isn’t the only price tag. Your physical, mental, and emotional health will pay dearly too.
3. Listen to Your Body
Eat when you’re hungry. Stop when you’re full. Your body will let you know what it wants and how much.
Your body will tell you when it needs to relax or needs to move. It will tell you when it feels well and when it doesn’t.
Your body knows what it craves, but often your head argues. Your “old habits” get in the way by telling you what you “should” do.
Does this sound familiar?
Body: “Ice cream.”
Head: “You can’t have ice cream.”
Body: “Chocolate.”
Head: “You’re too fat.”
And on and on and on …
If your body craves ice cream, eat it. Enjoy it. Stop the madness and deprivation in your head. It’s just ice cream! One scoop isn’t going to make you fat. (The whole carton might.)
I appreciate it takes a huge leap of faith to listen to your body over what your head thinks. (Or what someone else thinks.) But once you REALLY start paying attention to Your Body and eating what It wants, you’ll never go back to “dieting” again.
4. Eat “WOW” Foods
I have two categories for food: “WOW” Food and “Filler” Food.
“WOW” food is great food! (1) Your body craves it and is so satisfied when it eats it or (2) the food is SOOOOO good that it doesn’t matter if you eat more. It’s worth paying the price!
“Filler” food is just that. It’s food that fills you up when you’re hungry. “Filler” food is fuel. It gives you energy. “Filler” food is easier to say “no” to when you’re full.
I do my best to eat “WOW” food … because I hate wasting stomach space with “filler” food. When I satisfy my cravings, I feel better. I don’t obsess and I’m not deprived.
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