Again, yes, really. After several years of yo-yo diet, binge eating, calorie conflict and constantly thinking about food, “I finally met my low point,” said Roup. “The mental space and thought that goes into everything I eat and how to burn everything, I just came to the point where it is, I don’t want to do it anymore.”
So she quit. “I scrapped all the quote Oquote labels that you put on food that was good or bad,” she explained, “and really allowed me to look at food as food and not having anything outside the boundaries.”
With a way of thinking in diet culture that was already firmly engaged in her mind, it was a bit of a struggle at first. “You’re like,” Oh my gosh, I will only have, like Snickers all day and I’ll eat all the things I can’t have, “said Roup.” But after a week or two it gets really boring. ”
She has spent the last decade coming into contact with her body’s clues, “which, when am I actually hungry? What do I long for? What foods give me energy? What foods make me crash and not feel good?” she said. “And when you start leaning into it, it really simplifies food.”
Sure, she admitted that it was not an overnight to intuitive eating. “It took me very long to reveal it,” she said. “But I was only at my breaking point, which I am tired of following a stupid diet and feeling-Tty.”
