What Are The Importance of Changing Your Expectations about Food?

When you characterize certain foods as “good” foods and others as “bad” foods, the next logical step is that, if you eat what you consider to be a “bad” food, you must be a “bad” person. When your opinions and thoughts about food are steeped in guilt and shame, you’ll often make food choices for the wrong reasons. You won’t choose to eat something because it provides you with essential vitamins, mineral or other bodily needs. You’ll choose to eat something because it will make you feel less shameful or less guilt-ridden. Emotional eating tends to take the form of overeating.