I Eat Real Food

For as long as I can remember I have been on a diet.  It has been a whole lot of counting, measuring, weighing, and good and bad foods.  It has been a lot of restricting and worrying about what I can and cannot eat.

To be honest, it has been a whole lot of needless misery and anxiety.

One of the hardest things about Intuitive Eating has been changing my long standing mindset of good and bad foods, of attaching a moral value to food.  It has been very difficult to change.  For so long I have been constantly worried about what I am eating.  In that diet mentality life, I cannot even remember the last time I had butter on my toast!

Intuitive Eating has brought so much freedom into my life.

I have toast with butter...and jam!  The anxiety surrounding food and meal times has slowly decreased.  I cannot describe what a HUGE blessing that has been.  Shopping is so much easier.  I buy food I enjoy.  I no longer hang out in the reduced fat, reduced calorie, health food junkie aisle.

I eat real food.

I am not caught up in the latest health food trend.  If that is what you are looking for, sorry.  After all, they will change next week anyway.  I eat what I like.  Usually that is fresh fruits and vegetables, but I eat pie and ice cream too!  (Lest you think I ONLY eat fruits and veggies, I assure you, I do not.)  And I don't feel guilty!

These days there is more variety in what I eat.  I ENJOY eating!  I eat food that tastes good!  At first I thought it was too good to be true.  Is it possible to eat food, real food, that tastes good and lose weight?  Is it possible to lose weight without really focusing on losing weight?  Yet, that is what is happening for me.   My body is feeling so good!

It has been very hard work, but it has been so worth it. 

Below are some of the meals and things I eat.  Yes, there is butter on my toast, I had syrup with my french toast, and I eat rice and bread.  I love it!  I love that this is working for me.  I am grateful for the people in my life who help and support me in this.  What an incredible journey this has been.