The following are good indicators that your eating habits are actually harmful.
1. Most of your food is processed.
- Beware the labels “low fat, low carb, gluten free, healthy labels are no guarantee that what is inside is a good choice.
- Choose whole foods as much as you can.
- When you have to choose something in a box or a can read labels.
- Get to know what is in your food.
- A good rule of thumb is if you can’t pronounce it or recognize it as English, think twice about eating it.
2. You feel guilt about food choices.
- Emotions are a big part of food and eating, good and bad ones.
- Adding guilt to food choices doesn’t feel good in the short term and will sabotage your goals in the long term.
- Dealing with emotions around food is a great place to start on a journey toward healthy eating.
- Guilt, shame and judgement have no role in healthy eating.
3. You don’t plan to sustain the changes you’ve made forever.
- Temporary changes can be helpful to correct a nutritional deficiency.
- A body size doesn’t make bad choices ok.
- If too much sugar is bad at 180lbs it is just as harmful at 120lbs.
- If weight loss is a goal, changes must be sustained or weight is regained.
- The adage ‘most diets fail’ is mostly true for this reason.
4. You look forward to ‘cheat days’.–These are days when you can eat “whatever you want”.
- In a healthy approach to eating, you eat foods you want all days.
- You may need to broaden your repertoire of ingredients and spices so that healthful foods are tasty and satisfying.
- Control food preparation so that there is limited quantities of the ingredients that are problematic for you.
5. You are “at the mercy” of food.
- Your feelings about yourself depend on whether you resisted the cookie (donut, pasta, pizza etc.)—good feelings, praise or did not resist—bad feelings, criticism.
- Healthy eating is for nourishment and enjoyment. It is not an indictment on your personality traits.
Signs that your healthy eating may be problematic
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-healthy-eating-is-bad-for-you-1239048.html
