I would apologise for the terrible pun which constitutes the title of this blog post, but I’m the Queen of bad yokes! Haha well, they make me happy anyway!
As Easter draws ever closer and the sun is doing whatever it’s doing, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that the amount of chocolate and the number of lunches out with friends and family is ever increasing.
Yet this doesn’t fill me with panic about having to earn my treats and how to balance everything. Instead, it excites me about all of the lovely things that I’m about to enjoy and the company that I’m going to share them with.
I wholly choose not to subscribe to the widely accepted notions of binge and restrict, good and bad etc. Frankly these just mess up your mindset, your metabolism and in the long run make you sad.
So I choose to enjoy the food that I have the opportunity to make the most of in each season and instead listen to what my body needs. If I want the chocolate cake, I’ll have it thank you very much! If I want the extra large Easter egg, I’ll have some of that too.
You see, being comfortable with what you’re eating and how it makes you feel are key.
The less I restrict what I eat, the better and because no food is off limits then I’m less likely to go crazy when I do eat it.
Allowing myself to enjoy chocolate doesn’t mean I’m unhealthy, it just means that chocolate tastes nice and I enjoy it, I can also just as much enjoy a giant bowl of salad and how energised and revitalised I feel afterwards.
I like to be present in the moment when I’m enjoying food and to soak in all of the senses that it touches; my sense of taste, smell, my mouth watering and my stomach feeling comfortably full. The happiness of sharing with friends and the enjoyment this brings me.
I also like that food gives me energy to live and to move in ways which bring me joy. Food is so much more than a one dimensional aspect within our culture and if we remove the hang ups around it our attitude naturally becomes one of ease and comfort meaning that we can be intuitive with our choices and not have them bound up in shame.