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01/15/2023

🍩 It’s never about the donut 🍩

Yesterday, a guest treated my producer and me to the prettiest curated box of donuts! It was a kind and delicious gesture, one that brought joy to several in the office and the kiddos at home.

But, to me, personally, it was a gentle reminder of how far I’ve come in my relationship with food and myself and how desperately I want you to reach true food freedom, too.

I remember when I would have smiled, thanked him for the donuts, and passed them on. Thinking highly of myself for “saying no” and having such “willpower” over those “bad donuts.” OR I would have longed for one, eaten it, and then spent the rest of the day anxiously awaiting the next workout to “burn off the bad donut,” or I’d skip or skimp on meals to “make up for the bad donut.”

My self-talk was either self-righteousness for avoiding the forbidden donut or self-loathing for eating it.

Either way, someone’s kind gesture would have wrecked my mental health.

It’s never about the donuts.

The growth you truly desire or deserve, even if you can’t articulate it or know it, is reaching a mental level of maturity where the damn donut doesn’t control you.

You get to a place where the box of donuts (or insert whatever you think controls you) doesn’t send you into a spiral of emotions of do I, don’t I, I shouldn’t, but what if I do, oh s**t I did, now what?!?

With every ounce of my being, I want you to fully know and live with the inner peace that comes when you are faced with “food temptations,” and you confidently pass on it because you don’t care for it at this time or you eat it, with no guilt and all joy and move on with your day.

Humans have given food too much power and control for far too long.

The problem is You think the food is your problem. No, sweetie, it’s the power you give that have you trapped and troubled.

Spend effort untangling the lies you’ve bought into around food that has created this vortex of fear you live in daily, meal-by-meal.

Eat the donut.
Don’t eat the donut.
It’s just a damn donut.

Love you, mean it. RT 😘