02/06/2023
If you’re struggling with food/diet culture still controlling your life I want to let you know there’s light at the end of the tunnel 🫶 it’s been over 6.5 years since I last tracked a macro, calorie, or cut a food group out.
But before that- I had done every diet under the sun starting at 13 + went super extreme in my early 20s with an all or nothing mindset which led to a binge eating disorder.
No alcohol at all or I was binge drinking.
No carbs or binge eating all the carbs
No fast food/eating out or getting drunk and binge eating all the fast food.
No peanut butter so I’d binge eat jars in one sitting.
No protein bars so I’d eat 13 at once.
No bread or is binge eat a loaf of bread…
No pizza so I’d have an episode where I’d find myself gorging on an XL completely sick, but unable to stop and blacked out on the floor.
Not kidding once I got drunk(and I would drink on purpose to make myself let go of control) and ordered the entire McDonald’s menu, I ate all of it. I felt HORRIBLE but I would keep eating.. because tomorrow it would Be back to the diet.
Hopefully you’re getting the point/ everytime I went to an extreme it would send me the total opposite direction .I would fall into self sabotaging cycles and start the binge restrict cycle all over again.. punishing myself with extended periods of cardio to try and burn it off just to repeat the same pattern all over again.
It wasn’t until I gave up all diets and rules completely and devoted myself to understanding nutrition and taking the time to learn to listen to my body, stop using a scale + stop removing foods that I was able to find food freedom.
It meant being ok with potentially gaining some weight- but in the process allowing my body to find its happy spot where I didn’t need to track macros or calories ever again and could just maintain a healthy body weight with ease.
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