Do you have a healthy relationship with food? The freedom to eat anything but still manage to regularly choose foods that make you feel good.

 

The truth about diets? They work. If you follow them to a T. They’re also unsustainable. If you do go on a diet, reframe it as an opportunity to introduce new habits, get outside your comfort zone, adjust your palate or reset your system. I tried Keto for a couple months, bought the little testing strips, tracked my macros zealously and spent a fortune on specialty ingredients. I did not eat out so I turned that into an opportunity to invite friends over for dinner every week. I had at least a half dozen mini multi-course dinner parties to make it more fun.

 

I learned how my body responded and that’s the best way to use a diet, for feedback as information. I missed eating my favorite fruits and veggies. My tastebuds became more sensitive to added sugars and shifted my preference to natural sugars like fruit or honey. The only thing I ended up adopting into my normal life was Rao’s tomato sauce. A healthy relationship with food is about eating to nourish your body not for a shift on the scale. 

 

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