Functional medicine nutritionist Dana James shares how she helps her clients shift their mindset to create healthier eating patterns.
For more great tips from Dana, check out her video course,How to Ditch Sugar.
Food is medicine, and your mind is the cure.
They might struggle at social events to say no to food for fear of being perceived as a diva.
Food is neither good nor bad, but it is effective or ineffective.
Become aware of your patterns.
you’ve got the option to only change patterns if youre aware of them.
Spend a day writing down your behavioral patterns.
What does your day look like and how would you like it to look?
What can you do now to move it closer to your ideal?
Your conscious mind is more powerful than your reptilian brain.
This is the reptilian brain at work.
But you also have a neocortex and this is where your consciousness resides.
If youre tired, sleep.
If youre upset, look at why youre being triggered.
If youre hungry, eat only if you havent eaten in the prior three hours.
In my experience with clients, hunger can be real or from chronic emotional emptiness.
Perfection is for the Gods, not humans.
Were not wired to be perfect, and if we expect ourselves to be, we’ll enslave ourselves.
Give yourself permission to eat something for pleasure once a week.
And dont feel guilty about it.
Then check that your next meal is clean.
Know what your next meal will be.
You dont need to plan your foods for days in advance to be successful.
Your next meal (or snack) will suffice.
When youre picking up lunch, get your afternoon snack as well.
If youre standing in line for your morning coffee, get a green juice as a midmorning snack.
Starbucks carries bottled green juice now, so phytonutrient-rich juices are on almost every street corner.
