Re learn everything about food

F25 L:180CM SW: 93kg CW:75 GW:I shall see where I end up once I have a healthy eating and moving routine.

As an adult who's bad eating habits stem from childhood neglect and abuse i have found out that most people need to re-learn everything about food and eating. Every behaviour that has been normalized to you because you don't know any better. For example most cultures now have heaps of unhealthy dishes that are used on a weekly to daily basis for pleasure or comfort. While in essence food should be the medicine you eat to treat what your bodily needs at that time(low iron? Eat some meat, low energy and need to be quick? Eat some carbs. Growing muscle? Eat some protein) So many of us have been neglected by the culture we where raised in because it forgot the main focus of food is to keep you healthy and alive. Too many people where raised with a "here is a cookie so you are quiet and occupied" or a "you feel sad? Here is candy" or "behave and you can have ice cream later" or the worst of all "you don't like it? either never try it again or forced eating of it"

I am a nurse that works in preventative childcare (which for a big part includes advice on how to start healthy routines and habits within your child) And this is how you start to teach babies about food. The first non milk things a baby eats should be 1 or 2 bites of 1 flavor, mostly the advice is start with carrots because they are naturally sweet, 10 days in a row. Get that baby used to that flavor and then move on to the next. How many of us have only been thought a few basic flavors because that is what your parents like? How many have never learned to keep trying? How many where either forced to eat whole meals they didn't like and now can't with an almost ED like strength eat that dish? Or where thought that it is okay to say you don't like something and then never try it again? How many of us still do that to ourselves? Force down bowls of salads we don't actually want to eat but that is what we should because it helps with weight loss?

So many of our dieting behaviours continue on with the unhealthy ones we have normalized, with cheat meals and forcing down the few healthy meals we can tolerate for the sake of a calorie budget.

I have been reteaching food to myself for a while now and the difference is amazing. When you are happy to eat a buckets worth of cherry tomatoes because why eat them in a saus the way you where thought to if you like them as is too. Sure I still make a good pasta saus every once in a while but why spent more energy when I need that time and energy to treat my mental health. I am currently working on learning to eat radishes as is. They are healthy and for that reason I want to be able to eat them and yes I will like them in a while. It worked with olives, liver and many other foods. Sometimes it takes 10 tries sometimes more and others less. But I can now eat the rainbow and like it. Plus knowing flavors separately will make eating meals where they are mixed (basically every meal ever) better because you now have a broader flavor palet to eat with and you can recognize more flavors and eating becomes this slower and more enjoyable experience.

Losing weight becomes a lot easier when all food is an option because you enjoy it. Take literal baby steps and you will get there. You can cook as well as a Michelin star chef if you don't train yourself to eat flavors the way you where actually meant to you are still not building a healthy relationship with food. Forcing yourself to eat an entire meal you hate is just as damaging as if your parents where to do it. They didn't know any better and you didn't either but now you do and be understanding to yourself and teach yourself the way you would your child in hopes of giving both a happy healthy future where you enjoy food and are healthy too.

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