This weekend, as you know, I celebrated my 40th. Thank you all for your sweet notes of love. I had meal after meal of delicious food and by the end of the weekend, I felt pretty darn good about my eating.

I thought it would be helpful to learn some of the psychological tools I use that helped me over the weekend (you can see me and my family right before my husband and I went out with a group of my friends)….

 

1. Consult your belly

Get in the habit of turning within to your belly during a meal to see how your belly is doing. Are you full, getting full, still hungry? Ask these questions during a meal and when the answer is, I’m no longer full, STOP.

 

2. Come from a place of abundance, not lack.

I had some amazing food this weekend. I mean AMAZING! However, I kept telling myself that I could always come back to these fancy-shmancy restaurants and that I would be just fine ending my meals when satisfied. This internal abundance dialogue is something you need to train yourself to do. You won’t feel like you can’t ever have those delicious food items when you actually can!

 

3. Two-For

Wrap up food and get a two-for out of it. Two for the price of one is great for the wallet and your butt, so when you are satisfied just tell yourself that you would love to take the rest of your meal home and enjoy this deliciousness for another meal.

 

4. Remember, diets suck.

Diets sucks your energy right out of you. They suck your life, your joy and create an obsessive relationship to food. Who wants that? Not me!

When you stop dieting you can start to understand what's really going on inside of you that’s craving more food, that seems to NEED more. I had to do some of that internal work so that I could come to the table with confidence. When you fully understand your relationship to food, you can more easily manage the need to eat everything on your plate.

Most programs don't properly address your behaviors, your beliefs around food, and most diets suck because who wants to be on a diet forever? Not me and probably not you.

 

Try these out and if you need help going deeper to look at what’s really going on as it relates to your need to overeat, schedule a time to talk to us.

In Love and Health,
Marna