Aligned Nutrition

🥗 Your entree arrives and you think to yourself 👉 “I should have ordered a salad”

Then you feel a little guilty and reassure yourself it’s okay.

But you still FEEL GUILTY.

👉 “I should have ordered a salad” is a THOUGHT you are having.

THOUGHTS:

➖Aren’t always true

➖Can be distorted versions of the truth

➖Have the power to completely affect our emotional states

LET’S CHALLENGE THIS THOUGHT:

➖Is it true that you SHOULD ALWAYS get a salad?

➖Are you eating less healthy if you don’t order a salad? Like 100% for sure true?

➖If you only order salads, in your experience does this ever impact your satisfaction and eating the rest of the day?

⬇️What do you think?⬇️

🖤 In time, our thoughts have less power over us and for a lot of us they change over time as we work to reframe them.

P.S. if you are in early stages of eating disorder recovery this strategy may not be helpful depending on the level of your anxiety. Talk to your therapist, dietitian, or individual treatment team.

Why doesn’t healing your relationship to food always feel good?

Sometimes, food healing is great:

➖You have freedom and feel liberated
➖Do and eat things you never thought you could without guilt
➖You feel powerful and like you’re truly overcoming and changing.

Other times, you feel crappy:
➖The guilt and fear overcomes you
➖You gain weight or your feel uncomfortable constantly

Things happen this way because changing our BEHAVIORS is often what we have to do first.

Before our THOUGHTS can have a chance to change.

In other words, we have to take action and change. It can feel bad because our thoughts haven’t caught up yet.

CONSIDER THIS BODY IMAGE EXAMPLE:

You want to like your body more.
You can’t just will yourself to feel differently in an instant - to change your thoughts.

Instead, you change your behaviors.
You stop weighing yourself.
You avoid pinching yourself in front of the mirror.
You stop checking the waistband of your pants just to see whether you feel bigger.

BEHAVIORS can change THOUGHTS over time.

👆Your thoughts are still there unchanged.
👆But your behaviors change.
Your experiences change.
👆Over time, your thoughts will change.

🖤 Give your thoughts time to change. Give yourself compassion on the crappy days. But keep going.

Been feeling lost and want to save time on this food relationship healing process?

That’s what can happen when you work with a healthcare professional.

📝 Inquire to work with me via link in bio so we can help you start to create change for yourself in tangible steps.