[spoiler title=’Click for video transcript’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’] getting rid of the idea of forbidden foods was one of the best things I ever did for my weight loss my whole life I’ve had problems with my weight I’ve always been kind of a chunky kid and even into when I was a teenager and eventually I slimmed down in college and then of course I gained weight with my pregnancies and everything I would say most of my life I’ve been overweight and because of that there were certain foods you know because I was constantly on a diet and everything I always felt like if I was overweight I just wasn’t allowed certain foods like it was like forbidden I would always feel all this emotion around you know things like desserts for example if I was overweight and I was sitting there eating a doughnut I felt like everyone was looking at me thinking she shouldn’t be eating that doughnut and then of course then in my mind I’d think oh yeah I’m gonna have this doughnut and what would happen I would over indulge in January of 2016 when I got very clear on my plan I said I’m gonna do intermittent fasting six days a week cheat day on Sunday walk six miles every day and I told myself as long as it’s within my eating window I can have whatever I want and there was absolutely to be no guilt for eating any kind of food no matter how rich or delicious or you know sweet or how many carbs or how many calories dessert is totally on the menu and of course I was afraid at first this was gonna lead to me like blowing up like a balloon because I was finally allowing myself all the foods I told myself if that did happen I would stop but I just kind of wanted to run this experiment so then a funny thing happened when there were no forbidden foods it was like those forbidden foods kind of lost their luster and I’m not talking all at once and I’m certainly not saying I don’t still love double stuffed Oreos because I do but it reminds me of this story that my Papa told me one time back when he was a kid him and his friends would go and sneak in to this farmers watermelon patch they would sneak and steal watermelons and sit there and eat them and you know it was just like the best watermelon ever and then one day they met that old farmer on the road and he said hey boys I’ve been meaning to tell you I’ve got this watermelon patch and I wanted you to know I’m growing more watermelons than I know what to do with so anytime you want one you just go and get y’all however many watermelons you want and they never went back and got another watermelon because the guy had taken all the fun out of it I think that’s really what has happened with me with the idea of forbidden foods all those things I used to think were you know bad I couldn’t have it’s just kind of like now that I know that I can have them I just don’t crave them like I used to when I first started doing this dessert was on the menu a lot more as like oh I get to have dessert ooh I get to have dessert but I was still losing weight it was a lot easier to not feel guilty because it was like okay I’m allowing myself this no guilty feelings are allowed and I’m still losing weight so it reinforced the fact that I could have this whenever I wanted you know now of course this is a couple of years down the line desserts are just not something I crave very often whenever I do crave them I have them and I’ve noticed there’s certainly a correlation there between different you know times of the month like right before my period yeah I’m gonna be craving chocolate especially I’ll eat it whenever I crave it one thing I’ve noticed is I tend to be kind of pickier now there’s no emotion attached to it anymore now it’s like when I’m eating the thing I’m not worried about all the emotions going with it I can really focus on how does this taste you know am i enjoying it and what I’ve noticed is there are some things that I used to think oh since I can’t have it I really really want it nowadays I realize they don’t really taste that great like for example the other day we bought a box of granola bars like chocolate chip granola bars because we’ve been going on hikes and stuff and it’s kind of a way to bribe our kids the day that we went on the hike it was right in my fasting window so I couldn’t have a granola bar then but I told myself you know you can either have it you know with my supper that night or you know on cheat day and it ended up it was cheat day before I remembered the granola bar I took it on my hike with me and I was all excited like all right yeah this is gonna be awesome I ate it and it was so disappointing and I realized like you know this is always what it’s tasted like but it’s just like again lost its luster and another thing I’ve noticed is I tend to stop a lot sooner now before you know because I had all those emotions I would overindulge I would eat you know two or three pieces of cake instead of just the one and now I tell myself eat however many pieces you want and normally I stop at one but I mean if I want two I go ahead and eat it but it’s just one of those things it’s a really weird counterintuitive thing for me but it’s worked so well and I love that I don’t feel that guilt anymore I’m curious to know have you ever tried this experiment like where you really did just let yourself have anything you wanted no guilty feelings allowed and how did it turn out for you let me know in the comments below okay thanks for watching be sure to LIKE comment and subscribe down below [/spoiler]
Video Recap
- Getting rid of the idea of forbidden foods was one of the best things I ever did for my weight loss
- When I told myself I was allowed to eat whatever I wanted, those previously “forbidden foods” lost their luster.
- I found I could still lose weight, even eating these foods
- I stopped feeling guilty
- Over time, I’ve come to crave dessert less (this was a very gradual process)
- I’ve found I’m pickier because I’m able to focus on the actual taste of the food, instead of dealing with all the emotions I used to feel
- I stop sooner now, eating to satisfaction, but not to misery