The Beyond The Food Show |empowering|educating|women|health|mind Body Connection

Have you been told you shouldn’t be eating X or Y food for your health? As a good responsible patient, you’ve been trying your best to do so. But in secret, you obsess about the food that is “illegal” for you? You resent the fact that you can’t have sugar as a diabetic. Sometimes end up even end up overeating that “illegal food”. You struggle with “on plan” consistently. You may even feel guilty for not being “good enough” to control your urges. Not your fault! That one restricts foods for health reasons or for esthetic weight loss purpose, there is no difference to the human brain. Any form of restriction bears the same outcome: the desire to have what is forbidden. Fear-based tactics to willpower yourself into “good complaint behaviors” do not lead to sustainable results. That’s what diets are even if they are considered health-based diets. What’s the solution then? not restricting… I can hear you say  “that wouldn’t work my numbers would be crazy and my doctor would hate me”. Well… has restriction worked?