The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

by Caroline Dooner

The good news is, the calmer and more fed your body is, the better it will work, and the healthier and more stable your weight and appetite will be. Bodies end up right where they belong when you stop trying to control weight. The only thing we can control is how we treat ourselves, and learning to feed ourselves normally. And the sooner you can accept that your body will handle this whole weight thing for you, the sooner your health and life will improve.

Slowly but surely, the more I would eat a certain food, the less I would crave it and care about it. The more I ate it, the less I would go nuts over it. Eating it freely literally lessened the power, and I started easily stopping when I wasn’t that hungry anymore.

Eating sugar actually ended my dysfunctional relationship to it. I fed my body sugar, and finally, my body started telling me what it needed.

Allowing myself to rest, and not forcing myself to move at all, totally helped heal my relationship with movement. My body eventually began to crave very specific types of movement, and I actually enjoy it now. But first I just had to rest and listen, and eventually my body sorted itself out.”

You cannot hate yourself into happiness. That’s just not how happiness works.

The desire to be healthy has to be stronger than your desire to be skinny.