Dieting thoughts look something like this: • ‘X food is better than Y food’ • ‘I must avoid gluten / sugar / carbs / wheat / legumes if I want to be lean’
• ‘I need to do my 60 minute exercise session no matter how tired I am, and make that 90 minutes if I've eaten too much’ (whatever too much is deemed to be)
• ‘I need to fill up on salad at the start of every meal so I don't eat too much’
• ‘No eating after 6pm’ • ‘If it's not organic / clean / paleo, it's not good for me’
• ‘I need to stick to my macros or else I'll lose muscle definition’
• ‘If I don't watch my food intake, my weight – and I – will be out of control’ Unfortunately, thoughts like these
almost always translate into diet-like behaviours.
DIETING BEHAVIOURS LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS: • You're using an entire carton of eggs and half a coconut plantation to make one weird-tasting paleo birthday cake... even if it's for a non-paleo friend, because you can no longer conceptualise buying normal flour and normal sugar for any reason. You now think those foods are just wrong.
• You're smashing out your 1.5 hour
Crossfit regime (or power walk, or hot yoga class, or whatever) even if you’re exhausted because you ‘ just won’t feel good’ (i.e. you will feel anxious and fearful) if you skip it.
• You're convinced those mild tummy pains are without any shadow of a doubt due to the muesli slice you were forced to eat from a cafe that wasn't gluten free – not because you're chronically underfed and hungry or anything...
• Ditto those weird skin rashes, constant feelings of coldness, vaginal thrush, fatigue, and water retention you've been noticing lately. You put any undesirable physical symptom down to eating the wrong food, justifying further food restriction. (As a side note, ALL of these symptoms can be the result of a depressed immune response resulting from chronic dietary restriction and/or under eating.)
• You can't possibly eat out with friends and family without meticulously checking the online menu first. And you usually end up saying no to going out because ‘you've already eaten a huge meal’. You might declare you're not
dieting, and that you're only watching your food for health reasons, but Sister, don't kid yourself. YOU. ARE. DIETING.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU'RE DIETING Any time you're manipulating food for the purpose of weight control – you are dieting. You may be able to hide this fact behind the guise of health, but if there's any element of wanting to control your body's shape or size through food, make no mistake – it's a diet. This applies whether you want to look lean, fit, muscular, and under a certain weight...or just plain thin and under a certain weight. If you're eating in such a way as to maintain or achieve a certain weight, this is a diet. And if you're dieting, i.e. you've got
dieting thoughts and are acting out the dieting behaviours that follow, you will suffer the physical, mental, and emotional side effects of dieting.
11 MODERN REINCARNATIONS OF DIETING Many of my clients don't realise they're still dieting until we have a look at their intuitive eating journal, which isn't just a food log but a record of thoughts and emotions that accompany meals and snacks. They don't know they're still on the diet rollercoaster until we break things down and chat about not just the food they eat, but also their food beliefs and the effects those beliefs are having on their lives. Here are 11 examples of ‘I'm not
dieting’ dieting, although there are more:
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