Say goodbye to food associated guilt

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Eating food for pleasure and fun is one reason we eat in the first place

It seems feeling guilty after food intake because we are associating food as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. If we feel we have done something ‘bad’ we feel guilty, as most of us have values that are for bettering ourselves.

However, that is the problem. Food cannot be ‘bad’, it cannot be a moral obligation. When we do a google search define actually gives us an example that we can have a ‘ad diet’ as one of the examples of how to use the adjective.

Let’s think about it though. It’s an adjective a doing word, and food doesn’t take action. Particularly if we are dealing with eating one food. One food on it’s own cannot do anything at that particular point of time. However, eating practices that inflict unhelpful actions over a period of time means there could be a chance. So in this case, the definition of a bad diet could have unhelpful actions our body because diet’s have some time period.

We also celebrate with food, eat foods to make us feel good when we feel down, the psychology connection between food and our emotions is real and ingrained. It’s finding a balance. Eat the chocolate without guilt, because that one time is not going to put poor health , and get back to the foods you regularly eat.

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