Bravespace Nutrition

Often I find the answer to this statement is either “hell yes! Here’s to taking my power back!” or “I have still done all the things I wanted to do in this life! That narrative doesn’t resonate with me.” If either is you, sit tight and keep reading. ⁣

Dieting (all attempts at food restriction in the name of weight loss) and trying to shrink your body takes up a ton of headspace. From working out to thinking about/controlling food to trying to get it all just right to trying to avoid social situations because they don’t fit with your diet/lifestyle to constantly thinking about what’s wrong with your body, etc. This list could go on. ⁣

I want you to imagine waking up one day and getting all of that time back. All.of.it. What would you be doing? How might you show up in your life differently? How might you feel?⁣

And if you feel like nothing would change because you have still done the things in your life that you have wanted to do, I would challenge that. It doesn’t have to be the big things either! Maybe it has stopped you from perusing pleasure like going to a dance class and truly feeling your body move around the room or maybe it has taken up so much space in your head that you actually don’t know what it would be like to not have it constantly there.⁣

Either way, as a woman, it takes your power away. Dieting quiets you. Shrinking your body is exhausting. Diet culture distracts you from living your life fully. ⁣

I want differently for you.⁣

In this culture of dieting, hunger is upheld as virtuous. You are sent the message that you are somehow doing it “right” if you are hungry. It deems hunger as acceptable, even virtuous. But feeling full, that’s a different story. ⁣

Feeling full and allowing yourself to eat to satisfaction is demonized. Instead, you are encouraged to follow external food guidelines that restrict your intake to avoid feeling full (the internet is full of them- no pun intended 😉) ⁣

And what nonsense! In the absence of diet culture, both feelings would be considered neutral. You are hungry, and then you eat, and then you are full. Sometimes more than others. That’s it.

So why does this matter? Because knowing this can help you be kind to yourself as you learn to experience fullness in all its capacities. To finally invite that feeling in and allow yourself to feel it, which I know can be really tough.

So today, I want you to notice what your judgments are around being full. Do you have any fears? Are the fears things that have been told to you and you have internalized? Is there anything you would like to stop saying to yourself about fullness? How about anything kind?