How often do you make food decisions based upon what you "should" have rather than what you want to have?

So this week, experiment with eating what you like and giving yourself what you want. Just make sure to really savor and taste your food and affirm for yourself that you can have what you want.

If you have a particularly strong block against giving yourself what you want due to guilt or other reasons, grant yourself a bit of forgiveness this week to try out this tip.

For more support with this tip, to learn about the wrong messages denying yourself sends, check out this week’s Soul Food blog.

 

Golda is a certified holistic health counselor and founder of Body Love Wellness. She counsels women and men throughout the country on how to get off the dieting roller coaster, give their bodies what they really crave, and love their bodies and themselves. Golda's counseling and activism work have been featured on CBS's The Early Show, ABC's Nightline and Time Out New York. For more support with healing your relationship with food and your body, get your free copy of Golda's Top Ten Tips For Divine Dining by clicking here.