If You Didn't Care About Your Weight, Would You Eat Differently?
If you woke up tomorrow and your weight would not be affected by what or how much you ate, would you eat differently than you do now?
Are you envisioning all the things that you would want to eat and enjoy right now?
Would it feel freeing to eat what you wanted? Would it feel liberating to no longer feel guilty for it?
This is what eating intuitively feels like.
People that are intuitive eaters can actually answer ‘no’ to this question. They wouldn’t eat differently because they are already eating in accordance with what they want. (And if you consider yourself an intuitive eater, this is a great way to check if you still have some diet mentality at play with certain foods).
Does that mean that they don’t care at all about their weight? For some yes, but most, no.
What it does mean is that weight is not THE most important thing. This means that weight worry is not in the driver's seat dictating all of your food decisions when you eat intuitively.
Instead, you and your body are.
When you and your body are in charge of the food decisions, eating can feel flexible, freeing, satisfying and energizing.
Are you curious about what this would be like?
Start by observing how you make food choices throughout the day and notice:
How do you decide what, when and how much to eat.
How much of a vote do your body or taste buds get?
And do you feel any kind of guilt after eating, if so, where is that coming from?
Take what you notice and decide how often your eating decisions are actually being dictated by food rules that you have absorbed from diet culture via family, friends and media for the purpose of becoming smaller or staying smaller.
And then notice how this impacts the way you feel about food and your body.
Does it create more tension and frustration?
Are you thinking about your food choices more often than you would like?
Does eating feel more exhausting than you want it to?
Does it make you feel like a failure when you don’t eat in a way that you think you “should?”
Eating doesn’t have to be as complicated as our diet obsessed culture makes it out to be, it can be simple.
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