3 important things to give up to improve your relationship with food

 
 

This was a Guest Post by Lara Zibarras on The Purpose Fairy

How would you describe your relationship with food? When you go out for a meal, are you constantly worrying about the calories, amount of carbs, or the impact of dessert on your waistline? Or are you more likely to enjoy the company and conversation over a meal, whilst hardly giving the food a second thought (except maybe to savour the taste)?

For many years, I was firmly camped out in that first category - food thoughts consumed most of my waking moments. In my dieting phase, I focused on calories, food restriction and “burning off” everything I ate through high impact exercise. In my “clean eating” phase, I focused on removing processed foods, gluten and dairy, and stressing about grams of sugar in everything including fruit.

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