If we follow the pillars, we will develop a balanced way of eating that provides adequate nourishment and pleasure, and gently move us away from measuring, calculating, and feeling guilty or deprived.
Layer by layer, you peel back parts of you, to explore and shine light into. And, right there waiting, is another layer. Whether you're looking for one or not. Sometimes it's exhausting. Motivation will ebb and flow - so how can you maintain your journey, your recovery, when you are not feeling motivated?
Do you ever try on your "thin" clothes, just to see? Have you ever used your old clothing as an alternate scale, to judge if your body has changed? And how much it has changed?
The trinity of performance: train, fuel, rest. Diet culture misses the mark by promoting doing more on less.
Don’t listen to the noise; not eating enough and over-exercising are highly correlated with poor health outcomes. They place unnecessary stress on our mental, physical, and emotional well-being, at especially during this time of stress, the majority of us need to practice limiting stressors in other areas to safeguard our overall health and wellbeing during quarantine.
When we feel afraid, anxious, overwhelmed or out of control, the natural tendency is to exert more control. The thinking behind this makes sense; if I feel out of control, and I become more controlling, then, I should feel back in control, right? In theory, this makes perfect sense. In reality, this is the Control Paradox.
