Here’s What A Healthy Relationship With Food Looks Like

Denial is an excellent tactic if you want to immediately feel better without actually fixing the issue.

There’s this idea doing rounds that says a healthy relationship with food is totally permissive and accepting.

That if you have a rough day and face dive into a bathtub of cookie dough, you must have needed it. Because you were stressed. Because you can get back on that meal plan tomorrow. Because you deserve it, so don’t worry one bit.

Denial is an excellent tactic if you want to immediately feel better without actually fixing the issue. But keep it up long enough, and you’ll end up fifty pounds heavier, medicated, and farther from your goal than ever before. But congratulations, you’ll have a “healthy” relationship with food.

Obviously, that’s not healthy. That’s a fragile mind contaminating a would-be healthy body. A mind so delicate it can’t even admit that “yeah, I screwed up.”