Ep 130 - Scared to keep food in your house?

<p>Welcome to this week’s episode of How to Love Your Body.</p> <p>A reminder to Please rate and review if you find our podcast helpful in any way!</p> <p>Today we are talking about a very common fear and that is keeping food in the house (anything “bad” of course).</p> <p>Why do we fear this?</p> <p>Because we feel out of control around food, like we cant be trusted around it, we just think about it until we give in, say screw it, eat it all, and then promise we won't buy it again.</p> <p>Is this food addiction? Is this a lack of willpower? How come other people can keep chips in their pantry and ice cream in their freezer and it’s not gone in a day? They can just eat it in a normal way? There must be something wrong with me, I’ll just have to control myself forever, I’m just different and that’s the way it is.</p> <p>This is not food addiction, has nothing to do with willpower and you aren’t different - you’re just restricting.</p> <p>Dieting, trying to be “healthy” or good, eating in moderation, being sensible, WW, or Keto, whatever you call it - not allowing all food and listening to your body is considered restriction.</p> <p>NOTE: Some people ask, I’m eating the food, why isn’t it getting better? - mental allowing is key too, having a healthy relationship with food is also needed! If you feel bad for eating the food or are stuck in retaliation of dieting, there are still some steps to take to get to freedom.</p> <p>All this is being said so that you KNOW it can be different, you aren’t different or weird or just lack will power and you are NOT addicted to food, yes even you :).</p> <p>Diet culture teaches us that we need to control MORE that it’s our fault if we’re weird with food - but it isn’t and that just makes it worse - making you more likely to run back to another diet next week - the diet industry is brilliant. It causes a problem and then sells the solution, over and over and over until we die.</p> <p>Well we’ve seen the truth - ALLOWING food and repairing your relationship wi