9 Signs You Have an Unhealthy Relationship with Food
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
5.0 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
I thought what I was doing was healthy and how I felt was normal.
It wasn't until I got onto the other side that I finally was able to realize just how unhealthy my relationship with food actually was.
My boyfriend at the time, which is now my husband, pointed it out to me. But that was years into struggling with this unhealthy relationship. While I'm so glad that he did point it out, I could have had someone point it out sooner and avoided years of misery.
That's why in this episode of Embrace Your Real, I want to walk you through what an unhealthy relationship looks like and the habits and feelings attached to it, so you can get a better idea as to whether or not your relationship with food is healthy.
If you realize you have an unhealthy relationship with food after listening to this episode, let me share what helped me overcome every single one of these behaviors…
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Once I learned how much my body actually needed daily and that it was okay to eat less-than-healthy foods if I made them fit into my macros, my relationship with food completely changed. I no longer thought about food all the time, I didn't let food control me, and I definitely didn't let it make me feel guilty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie |
| 0:04.8 | Ledbetter a podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I |
| 0:10.0 | dish you a dose of real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self. |
| 0:18.0 | Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it let's go. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Embrace Rail Podcast. I actually didn't know that when I was most unhealthy in my relationship with food |
| 0:45.0 | I didn't even realize how unhealthy and toxic my thought patterns were. I |
| 0:50.7 | truly thought that what I was doing was healthy. I thought it was normal. I thought what I felt was normal. |
| 0:56.0 | And it really wasn't until I got to the other side of it that I was able to realize just how unhealthy and toxic my thought patterns were. My boyfriend at the time |
| 1:05.3 | who was actually now my husband, he was one of the first people in my life that |
| 1:08.9 | pointed out and asked me blatantly on our first date if you kind of know our story you've |
| 1:14.1 | probably heard this before but I was like pushing the chicken of my salad to the |
| 1:18.6 | side of my plate I was pushing the carrots to the side I was literally picking up the lettuce like the actual |
| 1:24.2 | lettuce no dressing with my fork and that was all I was eating and he blatantly |
| 1:28.8 | asked me and I remember in that moment like my stomach sinking and just feeling so |
| 1:34.5 | overwhelmed with emotion like so many emotions first feeling so embarrassed and |
| 1:41.2 | feeling like oh my gosh, now that he really sees it, he's not going to like me. |
| 1:47.0 | And it was on our first date. |
| 1:48.2 | So we had been talking prior and I felt like such a peace with him and I felt like I don't want to say I knew it was my husband but I definitely knew that he was going to be in my life for a long time if not my husband and so I just remember in that moment feeling like oh he's |
| 2:04.9 | gonna break up with me or this is not gonna go anywhere because he truly sees me and |
| 2:09.2 | on the flip side of that I also remember feeling so overwhelmed with almost joy in the midst of this like embarrassment |
| 2:17.0 | because he was one of the first people that not only asked me if I had like aordered relationship with food, but he had been studying |
| 2:25.9 | health and exercise science and sports nutrition in college. So he had the knowledge and |
| 2:31.0 | expertise to back it up, and so I just felt so much peace in that moment and so that's why in this episode I want to share nine signs to look out for that you might have an unhealthy relationship with food because I know if I were in this |
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