Do you have a bad relationship with food?

Do you have a negative relationship with food?

Signs that you may have:

⏰ Strict time or frequency for eating

❌ Restricting foods you don’t need to

👹 Viewing foods as ‘bad’ or feeling guilty for eating something

🥐 Cutting out entire food groups

🍩 Binge eating unconsciously

🤜🏽 You punish yourself for eating

🤫 You hide food or eat in private

🏃‍♀️ You exercise to earn your food

🍪 You see food only as energy or calories, not nourishment.

Food isn’t just ‘fuel’. Food includes:

🍊 Micronutrients (vitamins & minerals)

🌱 Phytochemicals (compounds in plants)

🐄 Zoochemicals

All of which help to do more than just ‘fuel’ your body. Just some of the other things they do is:

🦴 Help to build bones

🩸 Clot blood

❤️ Regulate blood pressure

🧬 Cell & DNA protection

🎀 Protect against cancer

⚖️ Balance hormones

🧠 Reduce mental health disorders

👀 Protect your eyes

😷 Boosts immune system

💪🏽 Benefits muscles

Food is not the energy. Food is nourishment 🫐

Yours, thisfitmum x