2 Steps to Overcome the All or Nothing Mindset

Let me paint a picture for you.

The weekend has finally arrived, and you are at your friend’s party. All week you eagerly waited for all the tasty treats that were being served. To prepare, you skipped dessert every day.

Finally, the moment arrived, dessert was brought out. You eat a cookie, a piece of chocolate cake, a scoop of ice-cream. You consume so many delicious treats that you begin to feel sick, you ate past the point of fullness.

This is a common occurrence for people with an all-or-nothing mindset. This way of thinking is part of a diet mentality and usually leads to overeating, followed by guilt, unhappiness, dieting, restriction, overeating etc.  It’s a vicious cycle.

By using intuitive eating strategies, you can learn to move away from the all-or-nothing way of thinking. You can have dessert without feeling guilty for eating a food you wanted. You can make peace with food.

Intuitive eating is tuning into what your body wants, even if it’s ice cream or a cookie, and giving it what it wants.  If you listen to your body, you won’t feel the need to overeat and have guilt afterwards. Your body will be happy it can enjoy the foods it wants.

You may be asking yourself, “How do I get myself to this point?”

The answer is to change your mindset.

You must step away from the diet mentality of restricting certain foods or entire food groups.

The way to make peace with food is to give yourself unconditional permission to eat what you want.

I know this sounds like an opportunity to eat uncontrollably. And to be honest with you, some people use it as an excuse to do just that.

However, that’s not how this process works.

Changing your mindset does not happen overnight. Those who work through the process with support, encouragement, positive attitude, and patience are the ones who will experience change.

The intuitive eating process can help you transform your relationship with food, where you end the battle with food and your body and achieve great pleasure in eating once again.

Here are 2 Steps to Overcome the All or Nothing Mindset:

1. Ditch the Diet

Commit to saying goodbye to the dieting mindset! It is time to recognize that you can have your cake and eat it too. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can find a balance that works for you!

2. Listen to Your Body

Start tuning in to your body. Your body gives you signals when it starts to get hungry and full. Tune into these signals to know when and what you should feed your body.  You’ll learn to eat what your body craves without overeating.

This journey will take time and there will be bumps in the road, but it’s important to remember it is a process.

Reach out to others going through the same battles and find support in them.

Join me over in my Facebook Group, Intuitive Eating for a Diet Free Life to surround yourself with women on the same journey.