When it comes to the food part, an approach based on self-care rather than self-control goes something like this: • making food choices that care for your mental health—honoring desire, satisfaction, spontaneity, and flexibility—as well as your physical health; • pursuing joy and pleasure in food rather than deprivation and restriction; • caring for your body by meeting its need for food—enough food overall, and a wide variety of foods that bring you both energy and happiness (and that definitely includes dessert, by the way); • grabbing a bite or a drink with friends after work without
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