How to Redefine Your Relationship With Food

How to Redefine Your Relationship With Food

Obesity. Yo-yo dieting. Deprivation of beloved foods. These are all signs of an unhealthy relationship with eating. It’s unfortunate that society has adopted this as the norm. More often than not, people are either on a diet or are binging. If they’re binging, then they have a plan in place to eat better starting tomorrow, Monday, or on New Year’s Day.

Perhaps you can relate. Maybe you wish you had a “normal” relationship with food, but you just don’t know what that looks like. Read on to uncover how you can readjust how you see food so that you love mealtime again.

Understand Why You Eat

You bring out a basket of clean laundry and set it on the couch beside you. But instead of folding the clothes, you start munching on chips. Or perhaps you finished the series you were watching and haven’t started anything new yet. You don’t know what to do with the time between dinner and bedtime. So, you make yourself a bowl of ice cream.