How not to feel crazy around cookies

The other day I was sitting watching Netflix with my husband and he grabbed the cookies from the kitchen. I ate one, realized they weren’t quite as good as I thought, and went back to watching tv. While this seems like a super boring story to some, I also work with tons of clients who feel crazy around any treat foods, even if it’s ones they don’t really like!

“I just feel like I need to eat all the sugar if it’s in front of me, even if it’s not something I like. I can’t stop!”

Does this sound like you? I get it and I’ve been there. And taking the stress out of food feels so good! It’s not that I’ve developed tons of willpower or that I’m super disciplined. It’s that I truly approach food knowing that all foods fit all the time.

If we feel like we “can’t be trusted” with certain foods around or feel like we can’t even keep them in the house, it’s often because we’re putting rules around them.

Maybe you tell yourself you can only eat them at a certain time or on a certain day. Maybe it’s that you can only have one and it puts the pressure on that one eating experience to be perfect. The more we restrict something, the more we end up wanting it so much more and feeling crazy around it! If we know we’re not going to let ourselves eat it later, we want to get as much as we can while it’s in front of us.

Part of the solution? To let go of your food rules. Let go of all the things you tell yourself you can’t have and eat them without stressing.

Enjoy your favourite treat foods regularly and really take the time to enjoy them. Will this feel weird at first? Yep. But every time you get to eat without guilt, it will feel just a little bit better. Someday you too will be able to keep cookies in the house all the time without feeling out of control.

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