Did You Shoot Someone? Is cheating on your diet really that "bad"?

Did You Shoot Someone? Is cheating on your diet really that "bad"?
The next time I hear someone say "I was bad" in reference
to their diet, I may have to shoot them. I meet people all
the time -- wonderful people. People who are successful in
business, sports, academics, you name it. I bet I could
live comfortably off of the taxes some of these people
pay!! Do they consider themselves successful? Are they
happy with their lives? Generally speaking, yes-but there
is one area in which they consider themselves to be
failures, and they would trade in their success any day to
attain this one goal: to lose weight.

At work last week, one of my clients came into my office
looking at the floor, as if she was ashamed. She was
ashamed. We exchanged our hellos, and I asked how she was
doing. Slowly she looked up at me and said, "I was bad."
I looked at her and heard myself ask, "Did you rob a bank?"
"No," she replied. "Did you shoot someone?" Again: "No."
So I asked her what possibly could have happened to make
her so upset, and she said, "I ate three pieces of birthday
cake at my daughter's party."

Why is it that people place judgment on themselves based on
their eating behaviors? Someone is a "good" or "bad"
person according what they've eaten? Doesn't it sound
crazy? Don't you think someone is good or bad based on,
well, whether they've robbed a bank? Abused their child?
Voted for the other candidate?

Yet we measure our worth based on our eating behaviors.
Let's stop this craziness, and put our relationship with
food into perspective. It is just one of the many
relationships we have in our lives. Relationships wax and
wane-we're not always happy with how the relationship is
going, but the healthy ones last.

Let's save the label of "bad behavior" for when we really
shoot someone.

Becoming "at peace with food" is a journey that involves
developing a new relationship with food. Instead of being
marked by frustration and disappointment, by fear and
competition between you and the food you eat, food will
take its place as one of the many activities in your life,
along with family, friends, working and being active. And,
like these other activities, it should be pleasurable.

In order to be at peace with food, you need to learn about
yourself and why you have the relationship you do with the
food you eat. Like all relationships, your relationship
with food took time to develop, and it will take time to
change.

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