I love the saying “eat like you love yourself.” No matter what you do in life whether it’s relationships, school, exercise, work, or what you put on your plate- everything matters. You’re either moving toward a more positive outcome or moving further away from your goals! Eat like you love yourself says to genuinely focus on what you put into your body and make healthy choices because at the end of the day it will either have a positive effect or negative. Now, this is not to say I’m an advocate of eating a diet that makes you miserable. You should thoroughly enjoy the heck out of what you eat!
The trouble is that when you become accustomed to eating processed foods with artificial flavors and high in sugar it can create a dependency on those foods. When we eat sugar our brain releases dopamine, just like when people do drugs or when we see 'likes' and as evolution might dictate, up-votes. This dopamine release can even occur to the point where you think about a certain food your body will release the hormones that will cause your body to release the same hormones you would if you had eaten that food! The human body is an incredible machine.
Little by little you’ll get there and even the smallest amount of progress should be celebrated! One of the worst things you can do is trick your hormones when you’re sad or anxious and eat a pint of ice cream or tell yourself you’re going to share that box of Krispy Kreme 🍩 (Suuure you are 👌). When you eat these kinds of foods while you’re feeling down or stressed you reinforce that negative feedback cycle. You feel sad then you feel happy after over dosing on sugar. Do that a few times and your dopamine is going make that a very difficult habit to break! Show yourself some love and give your body some of the good stuff instead!
by Jez Timms, via Over
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