Healing Your Food Addiction 2 (continued)
8. Don't Judge Yourself:
If you expect to heal your food addiction you must not judge yourself. Stop judging yourself and looking at your food addiction as awful and terrible and your fault. Release yourself from the addiction by ridding yourself of self-judgement. Forgive yourself for overeating or eating things that you knew were harmful to you. Rise above the judgements and begin to love yourself for who you are in the body that you are in. As one teacher I worked with would say: "don't hate appreciate". These words can apply to us when we judge ourselves and our bodies. Don't hate your body, appreciate what your body can do for you. Judging yourself is only going to make it worse. Self hate is a sure way to hell and not to healing. Let's heal the hell.
9. Time Your Meals:
Decide what times if possible when you will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Try to make this the same time each day.
10. Look at Your Portions:
When you get ready to eat at home or in your favorite eatery look at the portions of food you are eating. Many times restaurants feed us twice the amount of food we should be eating in one session. Some of us can take half of that food home but if it is in our plate we tend to eat it with the premise that we must " eat everything on your plate ". The fact is that we over serve ourselves and we go to places where we can eat all we can and make pigs of ourselves. We serve ourselves so much food because we are afraid we won't have enough to eat based on our past for those of us who did not have enough to eat. Watch your portions, be aware of the amount of food you eat and the amount you place on your plate. Eat smaller portions, maybe half of what you usually put on your plate.
11. Watch Your Mixture of Foods:
There are rules about foods you should mix and not mix. There are categories of food you cannot mix and OHI (The Optimum Health Institute) sells a chart that will tell you exactly what foods to mix and not mix. It is best for example not to drink anything when you eat a meal. Water should be consumed before you have your meal or after with a 20 minute grace period. Vegetables and fruit should not be mixed in the same meal because fruit is usually acid like where as veggies are not. The digestive system does not consume these different foods in the same way and time period hence we should not mix them.
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If you expect to heal your food addiction you must not judge yourself. Stop judging yourself and looking at your food addiction as awful and terrible and your fault. Release yourself from the addiction by ridding yourself of self-judgement. Forgive yourself for overeating or eating things that you knew were harmful to you. Rise above the judgements and begin to love yourself for who you are in the body that you are in. As one teacher I worked with would say: "don't hate appreciate". These words can apply to us when we judge ourselves and our bodies. Don't hate your body, appreciate what your body can do for you. Judging yourself is only going to make it worse. Self hate is a sure way to hell and not to healing. Let's heal the hell.
9. Time Your Meals:
Decide what times if possible when you will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Try to make this the same time each day.
10. Look at Your Portions:
When you get ready to eat at home or in your favorite eatery look at the portions of food you are eating. Many times restaurants feed us twice the amount of food we should be eating in one session. Some of us can take half of that food home but if it is in our plate we tend to eat it with the premise that we must " eat everything on your plate ". The fact is that we over serve ourselves and we go to places where we can eat all we can and make pigs of ourselves. We serve ourselves so much food because we are afraid we won't have enough to eat based on our past for those of us who did not have enough to eat. Watch your portions, be aware of the amount of food you eat and the amount you place on your plate. Eat smaller portions, maybe half of what you usually put on your plate.
11. Watch Your Mixture of Foods:
There are rules about foods you should mix and not mix. There are categories of food you cannot mix and OHI (The Optimum Health Institute) sells a chart that will tell you exactly what foods to mix and not mix. It is best for example not to drink anything when you eat a meal. Water should be consumed before you have your meal or after with a 20 minute grace period. Vegetables and fruit should not be mixed in the same meal because fruit is usually acid like where as veggies are not. The digestive system does not consume these different foods in the same way and time period hence we should not mix them.
More later...
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