When you feel guilty about eating

All of us as former dieters have experienced guilt while eating, even guilt while eating when hungry. The Food and Feelings message board exists to help us manage our feelings (see below).

Secondary emotions are often the stickler. That is, our feelings about our feelings are often what gets us hung up in our obsessions, compulsions, and excesses.

So let's talk about it. Now that you're learning normal eating, how do you feel about eating delicious food? Guilty? And do you feel guilty about feeling guilty about that? I'm wondering if for some of you it's too tall an order to simply stop feeling guilt about eating. Perhaps the step before that is to allow ourselves the guilt without judging it.

Do you see where I'm going? Plain old feelings are just feelings. We can watch them come and go, and they have little power over us if we would just let them wash over us. But instead, we fight or judge them.

Notice your food guilt today. Did you overeat? Did you feel guilty about that? Did you eat something high-fat, and then feel guilty about that? Just notice it. Try to hold back from judging it as good or bad.

One step at a time.

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