How To Let Go Of Food Guilt And Food Rules Using Intuitive Eating To Build A Better Relationship With Food
For so many women, diet culture never looked like a diet. It looked like discipline, like being "the healthy one," like a body image built around control. You made food rules without ever writing them down, and the food guilt that followed felt normal.
In this episode we unpack diet mentality: what it is, the hidden ways it shows up, and how it keeps running in the background even when you've never technically been on a diet. Elizabeth shares her own years as a vegetarian who told everyone it was about health, the rush back to the gym within days of each of her babies, and the pride of being the disciplined one. Tara and Maria bring the versions they've lived and the ones they see in the women they work with.
We also get into why diet mentality intensifies for women in perimenopause and midlife women navigating a changing body, and why intuitive eating works as an antidote to years of restriction, plus:
Why body control feels like being healthy and disciplined from the inside
What food rules sound like when they're dressed up as virtue
Why food guilt shows up even when you're eating exactly what you planned to eat
The question that tells you what diet mentality is actually costing you
What changes during perimenopause and midlife that make old patterns louder
How the wellness rabbit hole leads to disordered eating without weight ever being the goal
The write-it-down exercise Elizabeth gives clients to surface every hidden food rule
Why intuitive eating gives you a real way to challenge those rules and let them go
Letting go of diet mentality doesn't require an overnight transformation, and this episode shows exactly where to start.
Let's rebrand wellness together!
Elizabeth, Tara & Maria
