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This is Optimal Health Daily. Food guilt by Jesse Neeland of jessie Neeland.com.

And I'm Dr. Neil Malick, reading you some of the most

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let's get right to today's post as we optimize your life. Food guilt by Jesse Neeland

of jessyneeland.com. Let's talk about food guilt. As you may already know, if you took my free Be a Body Rebel

mini course, I am not okay with food guilt. Not only is it a huge waste of your time and attention

to obsess over what you put in your mouth, but the guilt that tends to accompany food for a lot

of people has a way of sucking all the pleasure and joy

out of eating. The thing about the emotion of guilt is that it's supposed to signal when you've

done something wrong and need to set it right. If you thoughtlessly hurt someone's feelings,

for example, you might feel a bit guilty and feel the need to apologize. Guilt is actually really useful in that way,

but guilt about food comes from the idea that eating is wrong and that when you've eaten,

you've made a mistake and must set it right. For each person, the specific rules about which

type or quantity of food counts as wrong and which counts as right

will vary. But guilt typically only arises when the person feels that what they ate was wrong or

bad and that they must make some kind of amends. The amends vary from person to person too,

from going for a workout to burn it off, to trying

to eat less tomorrow, to simply sitting with the discomfort of guilt as penance for one's sins.

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