This week, begin freeing yourself from our culture’s diet mentality. This isn’t an easy thing to do, but these three tips will make the process more manageable. Try them out this week and see how they go!
1. Listen: Pay attention to your self-talk when it comes to food. Awareness is the key to making peace with food.
2. Experiment: Try eating your ‘forbidden foods’ as often as they appeal to you - and eat as much as you want, until you feel satisfied. If you do this, make the exercise more effective by really focusing on your food – its appearance, taste, texture, temperature – and your experience eating it.
3. Support: Don’t go it alone! Get support from other like-minded individuals. It only takes one well-intentioned, but insensitive, comment to throw you back into diet mentality in the early weeks. Find a partner and support each other.
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Sara Armstrong is the owner of Zoi Wellness Consulting. In addition to wellness coaching, Sara specializes in health education seminars, diabetes prevention and management, Health for EVERY Body, and worksite wellness design. You can email Sara for a free wellness consultation at sara@zoiconsulting.com.
