Here’s the second part of this month’s UNCENSORED Podcasts Season 2 on Orthorexia.
Check out the first part here: The Side Effect of Modern Society and Even Scientists Can’t Escape
What we covered in the first part:
- We’ve talked about how certain foods can completely mess up your personality and social identity
- You learned why people in the fitness industry feel superiority over you because of their diet choices
- You discovered why you should bother tracking and testing things related to nutrition and not just training
- You learned about the connection between people suffering from orthorexia and drug addicts
- You also discovered what’s really in the root of the search for healthy eating and if that goal is really achievable
- You learned that orthorexia is a marketing driven eating disorder and that the food and fitness industry are making billions just from people getting fatter every year
Let Go of the Good Food/Bad Food Belief
You need to learn to let go of the good food, bad food belief and dump all the bad food lists. And instead start focusing on the foods that taste good, are filling and make you feel great.
It’s a mind shit and a whole different perception, especially if you have been exposed to the mainstream fitness media for the last couple of decades.
Ask yourself this question: ” What do I like to eat?” And eat exactly that!
A lot of people will be thinking that this statement means you can eat burgers and ice cream all day long. Well, that’s not true. Nobody can do go on a diet like that and that’s a pretty boring lifestyle to have.
There are lots of food choices, if chicken with broccoli and chocolate with ice cream are the only meals you know you are limiting yourself and preventing yourself from tasting some amazing foods that are also rich in nutrients.
Get a variety in your diet and start experimenting with different cuisines. Just ask yourself, what exotic meal you haven’t tried yet?
Believe it or not, there are other foods and meals outside the “healthy” recommended by fitness media and “unhealthy junk food” like chocolate or burgers. There are a lot of other options and they can be very tasty.
Today John Barban and Brad Pilon will show you how to switch from good/bad thinking into “eating what I really like and what makes me feel good” and “what would be the best and most tasty option for me?“.
If you’ve heard the first podcast and you’ve read so far then you understand what’s the point of it, but you may still be unsure of the whole process, so before you listen to today’s episode where John and Brad discuss this in great detail, let’s look over the steps you can take to recover from Orthorexia and start eating for flavor:
- Realize that any health message is a marketing message
- Understand that you won’t cheat death, and especially not by choosing different foods
- Create new food lists, but assign them different meanings (e.g. rank them by flavor)
- Make a list of foods that makes you bloated or that you are allergic to
- Evaluate every food on those lists based on how much you enjoy it, how many calories it contains etc.
- [you will have to listen to the interview for this one :)]
About Vaclav Gregor
Good article. Thanks for ‘permission’ to eat foods I like – bread, pasta, wraps – all whole wheat mind you, but still!
As well, you might want to make a small change – under the Let go of Good Food/Bad Food . . .
Second paragraph
It’s a mind . . . . . . I think you meant shift .
Anyhow, thanks again. Good article.
Thank you so much for helping me to understand this complex issue. I have been guilty all my life of making foods bad. The list of good foods got smaller and smaller over time until I felt constantly overwhelmed with guilt not only every time I ate but also when my husband and kids ate “bad” foods.
It’s been a process to overcome these tendencies and learn to relax while keeping everything balanced. I had no idea how freeing this would be. Removing this great stressor has been a gift.