So you’ve done the Whole30. Well now what?! Today’s episode dives into how to find your food freedom. To help you make peace with food and your body and stop letting food control your life, your happiness, and your self-worth. We’re going into listener questions on struggles with finding food freedom, reintroducing foods on the Whole30 (and why this is such a key part of finding your food freedom), and how the journey to food freedom starts before you even begin a Whole30.
Food Freedom is not easy. But it’s worth it. Food freedom IS eating with intention. Making peace with food and your body. Just like the scale no longer controls you because you have hopefully realized it’s a lying sack of crap (like I did after my first Whole30) and it LITERALLY only measures your relationship with gravity and the earth, and not your self-worth or your happiness or your capabilities to be an amazing human being, the goal with food freedom is that food no longer controls you. There is no longer guilt or shame associated with food, and no corresponding binge-restrict cycles. No cheat days, cheat meals or cheat weekends. Just eating with intention. There are no good foods and bad foods. Only foods that make you feel good and foods that don’t always make you feel awesome, but there is no morality attached to them.
This episode will show you how to start on your journey to get there.
Links Mentioned:
Is it possible to do a reintroduction without any negative side effects?
Dear Melissa: Everything I reintroduce seems to hurt
Find a functional medicine practitioner (Institute for Functional Medicine)
Other Food Freedom Episodes you’ll love:
08 | Whole30 Reintroduction & Food Freedom Tips with Melissa’s Food Freedom
26 | Michelle Smiths on Navigating Whole30 Food Freedom & Good Food Made Simple
27 | Stop doing the Whole30. (or so many of them, anyway)
30 | How to listen to your body, create food freedom and navigate forbidden foods with Angela Bicos Mavridis of TRIBALÍ
34 | Diets, Cheat Meals and Mindset, and Intuitive Keto with Kyndra Holley of Peace, Love and Low Carb
38 | The Whole30 Diet: Myth or Fact Edition
40 | Making Peace with your Body, Food, and Healing from Autoimmune Disease with Whitney Shook
