Focusing primarily on fullness and emotional eating instead of on eating enough keeps you stuck in diet culture—and therefore at war with food and your body. Diet culture demonizes eating emotionally and eating to the point of discomfort because it tells us these things will make us fat, and that fat is bad. If we accept that premise and try to address fullness and emotional eating without first making sure we have enough, we keep ourselves stuck under the Life Thief’s thumb. We won’t be able to solve our perceived eating problems because we’re still caught up in the mind-set that created
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