If you had a magic wand, and could create any relationship with food you wanted, what relationship would you choose to create?

I desire to be a person who has ease about her relationship with food; eating lots of natural, fresh and simple foods, as well as sweets and other treats when desired. A person who chooses pleasure over guilt, and truly enjoys eating. A person who doesn’t diet. A person who doesn’t feel she needs to diet. A person who is at peace with food.

Dieting Madness

It is important to really look at what you want to create. Dieting to the point of madness and obsession is not what most would choose, if the choice was presented in those stark terms. Yet I did it for years. So many of us continue on this path, focusing on the number on the scale, completely losing touch with what we really want.

Ask yourself, do you want to be a person who obsesses over every bite? A person who can’t eat birthday cake because it is not a part of the plan? A diehard dieter who allows something as simple as a cookie to ruin a perfectly good day?

What Do You Want?

It’s different for everyone. Write it down. Clarify your vision. Decide what it is you want your relationship to look like, and then consider if your current relationship with food reflects that desire. If it doesn’t, don’t worry, just realize that what you really want and your habits aren’t an exact match at this time.

Clarity Counts

Begin making choices from a deeper place, a place beyond just a number on the scale. Start making choices based on what you REALLY WANT for yourself. The truth will reveal itself to demonstrate it actually is the easier way to lose weight. No magic wand required.

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Enlightened Eating: Understanding and Changing Your Relationship With Food, by Rebecca Ruggles Radcliffe.

Photo by Or Hiltch.