I remember when I first began this journey, I wanted to know what/how normal people ate because I couldn’t believe anyone who actually ate real food (i.e. wasn’t on a diet) could lose/maintain a “normal” size. (Which is why I wanted to do a "here's what I eat in a day" post!)
I had been practicing the “less is more” habit for years and tried to eat as little as possible to be as thin as possible.
And when I first started learning to eat more normally, I was terrified to begin eating 3 meals a day with some snacks in between.Would I gain 5 million pounds?!
Would I spiral out of control?
What if I wanted to eat ice cream every day for the rest of my life?
Because I spent years in the diet/binge cycle, I thought the way to weight loss was to eat as little as possible. Of course, as soon as you try to eat as little as possible, you binge. So I would end up eating thousands of calories a day.
On top of that, I was absolutely scared out of my mind if I wasn’t restricting.When I first started to eat normally (meaning: I wasn’t living my life either dieting or binging), I asked the woman who helped me what she ate. She was on the thin side and very petite. When she told me what she ate, I was fascinated. I couldn’t believe she could eat that much and still maintain her size!
(Boy did I have a lot to learn! I had a loooong way to go before I remotely began to trust my body.)
It was so helpful to me to have someone who could reassure me that it was OKAY to get out of the diet cycle and actually eat “normal” meals. And so that is what I want to do for you.Dive in to see what I eat on a typical day :) (Check out the blog post here)
