The most important thing to do if you are worried about your emotional eating is to embrace the emotions and allow yourself to actually FEEL your feelings.
A healthy weight in the broadest sense factors in the weight your body naturally settles at when you are nourishing and moving (or not moving) your body in a way that makes sense for you at any given stage in your life.
The medical community needs to start recognizing that their proposed solutions to “weight issues” are at best unhelpful, and at worst outright dangerous.
You can’t meet your nutrition needs by “Eating when you're hungry and stopping when you’re full” when your body has not been accustomed to a consistent pattern of adequate nourishment.
If you’ve ever been on a diet or are struggling with disordered eating, it’s very likely that you are following some food rules, whether you realize it or not.
We have programmed our society to believe that being fat is 1) a choice, 2) unhealthy, and 3) something we should avoid at all costs. (Spoiler alert - none of these are true.)
Your standard hunger and fullness cues might go out the window, but you can still do your best to honor your health by choosing to eat your meals and snacks as an act of self care.
The reality is, imagining a future life in recovery is a lot like a first-year med student not being able to picture what it would be like to be a cardiac surgeon.
