You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 26.

Today our subject is, just tell me what to eat. How to love the foods that love you

back and learn to eat like a naturally slim woman. I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach, and author Cookie Rosenblum.

I'm so happy to be here with you today and to coach you on the what-to-eat part of

weight loss and living like a naturally slim person.

As always there's a lot to cover today, so let's get started. Here's what we're going to talk about today. How do you eat right now? How do you look at food? Do you look at it as good or bad?

And what does that perspective do for you?

What's a more helpful way to classify the foods you eat

and what that new perspective might do for you and how to put this into practice

and live it while you figure out what foods to eat.

So let's start with how you view food right now. You eat several times a day and

eating is not what I would consider optional, right? So how you view your food

determines what you actually choose to eat and that plays a really big part in what shows up on your body

Right now for most of you who struggle with eating and weight, you may

mentally divide food into two categories, good food and bad food. You tend to think of good food as food that you're allowed to eat. You

may think it's not fattening, it's clean, it's fuel food, it's good for you, maybe you think it's healthy and most importantly it's what

you are allowed to eat. In this category you might put salads, fruits, veggies, protein, healthy fats and grains. Now, this is not my

classification, this is just how most people think of food. On the other hand, food that you think of as bad food is food that you tend to classify as fattening.

Maybe you think of junk food in that category or unhealthy

treat food or definitely forbidden things that you consider forbidden for you.

And in this category things that you consider forbidden for you.

And in this category,

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