Don't Salt My Game.

Hey team, welcome to Don't Salt My Game.

I'm Laura Thomas.

I'm a registered nutritionist, director of London Center for Enchase of Eating, an author of Just Eat It, as well as my new book, How to Just Eat It.

We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body liberation,

and some other things thrown in for shits.

In this episode, we're talking about Chapter 6, letting go of food rules.

I know the idea of not having any food rules can feel daunting and scary and bring up a lot of concerns that you can't be trusted around food,

that you'd never stop eating and that you

would only eat unhealthy foods. But if we take a step back for a moment, we can notice that these

fears also valid and understandable are also deeply rooted in all or nothing black and white thinking.

There's no space for nuance. And this is how diet culture

encourages us to think about food. It teaches us that if we don't have rules in place, we will be

wildly out of control. And that's just a ploy to sell more prescriptive diet plans that pile

on the rules. And each diet has a different set of rules rules and they all become blurred and merged in your

mind until there's very little left that you can actually eat. We gravitate towards diet culture's

rules because they give the illusion of safety. They give us a sense of security which is a totally

human need. The difficulty is that these rules about good and bad foods and what we can and can't eat

lead to feelings of deprivation. I mean that when we do eat a food on our shit list, we feel

intense feelings of guilt, shame and anxiety. And because we perceive these foods to be scarce and

limited, we might try and eat as much as we can in that moment for fear that we won't get to eat it again.

And I often hear clients say that they can't keep a certain food in the house because they'll just devour the whole thing all at once.

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