Food Relationship and fat loss. Food for thought...

What is having a healthy relationship with food and how do we achieve this.

A healthy relationship with food involves accepting all different kinds of food to help feed and nourish your body while enjoying what you eat. It can involve aspects of an intuitive eating mindset that utilizes use of hunger and fullness cues which lets your body know how much and when to eat.

Most clients and women I have coached have had or are currently having problems in terms of they're relationship with food.

This can be caused and triggered by many factors and will ultimately be personal to the individual. The severity of scale of your relationship with food can vary also.

In todays society we can see a huge climb in the marketing of fat loss. 12 week challenges and coaches promising you to drop the unwanted body fat you have wished for for so long. However most clients need to heal their relationship with food first before embarking on a fat loss journey.

Wether that might be overeating patterns, emotional eating, binging and restricting, beliefs around food and dieting, excluding certain food groups and disordered eating.

The fitness industry more than ever is using a band aid to cover up a wound that eventually will do more harm than good in a relationship with food sense.

Wanting to achieve fat loss isn’t bad, but asking yourself wether your relationship with food is positive or negative and why, will be your best starting point.

The restrictive nature of fat loss programmes and demonising good food and bad food/ clean and dirty food is unhealthy. It is not sustainable and it will not get you to achieve the result’s you want long term or make you feel better through training performance and function.

Food relationship is what we need to address first and foremost. How we actually improve this will depend, on where you are currently at and what protocols will impact you positively.

Think about this before embarking on your fat loss journey.

References:

The flourishing coach

Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? Joseph Firth, James E Gangwisch, Alessandra Borsini, Robyn E Wootton, Emeran A Mayer,

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/