How becoming a food lover helped me make peace with food

I tried to avoid it but the rest of the afternoon working I wasn’t really fully focused on work. That damn chocolate was on my mind ALL THE TIME. 

In the evening I just thought “screw it!”, and ate way too much chocolate while watching Grey’s Anatomy.

Of course, after that, I felt incredible amounts of guilt and shame and promised myself I will be ‘better’ tomorrow.

And the cycle repeated.

Well, you can see, I definitely WASN’T a food lover.

But I knew I had to do something about it.

A world without chocolate and other sweets was not a world I wanted to be in but I didn’t want to be obsessed with it either.

I realized that in order to really make peace with food, I must become an actual food lover. And let me tell you, this helped me to transition to a completely different reality. (With the help of clearing the emotional addiction to food.)

I consider myself a food lover now.

Now, if I think about chocolate, I think about pure pleasure.

I never ever deprive myself of it.

In fact, I make sure I always have the highest quality chocolates at home.

(Yes, at home! After you overcome emotional addiction to food, you can be surrounded by all your “trigger” foods and be at peace.)

I easily wait a little bit longer with ease to finish another exciting task for my work, then I take myself on a little break out on the terrace, where I enjoy the warm sun, and beautiful birds singing, which perfectly compliments the whole experience of the chocolate love-making that’s about to happen…

I inhale a deep whiff of the decadent chocolate, then I gently break the little square of chocolate into three smaller ones.

Mmmm… I pick one up and slowly put it in my mouth, completely focused on all the pleasure in my month. I close my eyes, letting the chocolate melt in my mouth.

Over the course of the next few minutes minutes I savor in every single bite, as if I’m making love to that chocolate.

THIS is how a food lover really is around food.

There is no over-indulgence. There is no fear. No shame. No guilt.

I can easily have chocolate at home and not be anxious around it.

It can be right in front of my eyes and I won’t overindulge.

That’s how you will feel too when you will become a food lover.

Here is how you become one:

1.) Allow all of your favorite foods back into your life. Allowing them will release the magnetic pull they had on you before when you were forbidding them. We want what we can’t have. But if something is fully allowed? Slowly, over time, we lose interest.

2.) Notice which foods your body loves and which ones she doesn’t. Clear all the food rules and let your body guide you.

3.) Be respectful of your body and eat your favorite foods when you feel TRUE (not false) hunger. (More about that here >>) You can eat all the foods, just not all of them at once. Listen to your hunger levels.

4.) Make love to your food. Savour every bite. Decide that you are going to be a food lover, and make eating a beautiful experience. Include all of your senses while you eat. See it, feel it, smell it, and taste it.

Start asking yourself “How can I be an incredible lover to this food?”

TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS: Are you read to become a food lover?

And if you wish to learn more, stick around.

I have lots more tips to share. 🙂

In the meantime, I suggest you go watch my free masterclass where I shared 3 secrets to overcome emotional eating now >>

Have a gorgeous day!

xo
Tiasha