Cebu City – A good relationship with healthy food allows unconditional permission to eat food that makes you feel good physically, mentally, and even psychologically. In other words, whether it’s labeled in your own sense as unappealing, unappetizing, or not good you feel no guilt in consuming it. When you improve your relationship with healthy food, you save yourself more room for stress and problem-free mindset for future health problems.
This kind of process of overcoming is not an overnight success, but it’s a commitment that has to happen for a long period here are some signs to look out for when having a bad relationship with healthy food:
- You have developed a list of only a handful of food (fruits or vegetables) you will not eat.
- You avoid colorful food that has no appealing taste to you.
- You feel disgusted if you accidentally or unknowingly try fruits or vegetables you haven’t tried or have heard of before.
- You find yourself restricted to the food you find flavorful or overeating food you like on a daily basis.
You don’t have to have all these signs to have a bad relationship with food but it indicates that you still have more room for improvement in having a good relationship with healthy food.
One of the possible and safest techniques in slowly intervening with this problem is through gradual and progressive exposure to the healthy food you don’t typically consume.
As this type of intervention will take time, developing healthy eating or a healthy relationship with food requires keen to practice and discipline. Getting there requires patience also. // DMO II Gab Flores, RND
