What is Healthy Eating?
Healthy Eating is about Freedom. It is about whether you feel free to choose what you are going to eat, how much, and when.
Healthy Eating is about feeling great, having energy, and keeping yourself in a “healthy” state of mind and body.
Healthy Eating is about giving yourself permission to eat because the food “tastes” good and to continue eating until you feel satisfied.
Healthy Eating is eating three meals a day plus snacks or perhaps choosing to munch along. It is having two cookies and making a free and conscious decision to eat a third for any reason—because they taste good, because they are freshly baked, how rarely you have them, or it is leaving more cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow.
Healthy Eating is being able to choose foods that provide your body with the vitamins and nutrients it needs—for ENERGY, but not being so restrictive that you miss out on pleasurable foods.
Healthy Eating is allowing yourself to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad, bored, or because it just feels good—and not beating yourself up afterwards.
Healthy Eating is overeating at times: feeling stuffed and uncomfortable. It is also under eating at times and wishing you had more.
Healthy Eating is trusting that your body will BALANCE everything out.
Healthy Eating may take some time and energy, but it should only be one small component of your life.
Ultimately, Healthy Eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies. It should be flexible, changing in response to your hunger, your emotions, your schedule and your proximity to food.
Saying “Oh, I’ve already ruined my good eating today; I might as well eat the whole box of cookies,” is like saying “Oh, I dropped my phone on the floor; I’ll just smash it until it breaks.”
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