Spiritual Eating Help – 5 Barriers Preventing You From Having A Healthy Relationship With Food

by Jeffrey Harold

If you can do whatever it takes to develop a healthy relationship with food, you will be at your optimal weight for the rest of your life. As soon as you forget about dieting and feel ready to change, you get a little giddy seeing what the possibilities could be. But there are some things that prevent you from having this healthy relationship. 1. Desiring Only Results – One leftover behavior from dieting that always hurts is constantly looking at the scale for results. Making peace with food means forgetting about the number on the scale and focusing on healthy food and how it makes you feel. 2. Not Showing Gratitude – You’re going about it all wrong if you’re feeling forced to eat healthy foods. You must begin to see that you have been able to acquire the energy of life (food) with the energy of abundance (money). Letting this gratitude flow over you is vital. If you don’t have it, you can’t realize just how powerful clean, healthy, and simple foods really are. 3. Focusing On Loss, Not Gain – If focusing on results is bad behavior, so is focusing on the concept of weight loss and not the appreciation of the right foods. Focus like this blocks new and helpful food experiences from revealing themselves to you. 4. Allowing Your Emotions To Control – Having the ability to make good decisions is severely impaired if you think your emotions are total truth. Allowing worry and boredom to be a part of your decision making process is the beginning of you forgetting the real function food plays in our lives. 5. Not Recognizing Your Thoughts – The vast majority of us hold onto thoughts about food that aren’t as healthy as they should be. You must start right now to begin recognizing them and finding new thoughts about food to replace them with. Identifying with your thoughts and doing what they tell you to do causes you to lose the ability to develop a healthy relationship with food.