You can have your Easter Egg and enjoy it

Over the next couple of days you will probably see a lot of "fitness" people telling you that you are "allowed" your Easter egg.

They will try to say it as an authority in the industry. And if they are saying it then it means they are doing it too (right?) and if they are doing it and having a body like that then I can do it too....get it?

What they aren't saying is that actually you can have it ,but it needs to fit into your calories or macros for that day. You probably can't have a lot if it and eat other things as well.

But you are "allowed" it.

And you see I've got very strong opinions on this - would you expect anything less?

Now it's not up to me to make the industry better (I can just do me) but I can educate people (my people) who get my newsletter so that's what I'm going to do.

Firstly, eating is a behaviour and a very complex and nuanced one and it requires time to change.

So if this Easter you have - 

- Avoided all Easter chocolate and hot cross buns because you can't trust yourself around it.

- Thrown some in the bin (or planning to).

- Eaten it all in one go to "get it out the house".

- Planning on taking it into the office on Tuesday so you won't eat it.

Then being told to eat chocolate guilt free, really isn't going to help at all.

What will help is what I deal in -

- Adapting your language around food, so no more treats or"bad" foods.

- Delving into diet culture and how it's affected your values, beliefs and goals.

- Regulating your emotions, feeling them, sitting with them and not soothing them with food.

- Learning your own internal hunger and fullness cues, so you take control of the issue "in house".

- Giving yourself unconditional permission to eat.

All these things come under the banner of improving your relationship with food.

So you can -

- Eat a cream egg if you want one (and it can just be one...)

- Have a pack of mini eggs without it ruining the whole weekend and it escalating to a takeaway and a bottle of wine.

- Keep half an Easter egg in the fridge that you don't want to eat straight away and be able to look at it without picking at it every time you open the fridge.

That's what a healthy relationship with food looks like.

Sounds good doesn't it?

Drop me an enquiry here if you want that next Easter.

If you want even more from me on this topic please give this weekend podcast a listen.

You can listen here on Spotify and here on Apple Podcasts.