Self Love & Nutrition

Self love and nutrition, or how you eat are connected.

The more you appreciate and love yourself, the more you will take care of yourself. Not just with nutrition, but other forms of self care that are going to contribute how you feel every day.

I remember the moment when I realised how much those 2 things are connected.

It was 2018. The year when everything has changed. I got myself to the point of total destruction. I gained 15kg in the matter of months. I have lost totally control over my eating and every single day I looked at myself in the mirror and the more hate I felt towards myself.

I didn't look like myself anymore. My face and body looked different and I wanted so badly to remove that "fat suit" as I called it at that time. But the more desperate I felt to lose the weight, the more I had need to eat.

I understand how you feel when you feel you've lost control.

I know what it feels like when you feel disgust when you look at yourself in the mirror.

I know the feeling of wanting to disappear because appearance means so much to you and without looking "how you should" or "how you want", nothing else matters.

There was a moment when I looked at a photo my sister in law took.

Something just popped in my heart... I had a thought...

"You treated yourself so harshly. From now I will take care of you and I will look after you."

I turned self hatred into self acceptance and self love. And that was all I needed to change how I ate and how I behaved towards myself. The results I had were I just simply made better choices and I stopped punishing myself and my weight slowly came off and today I feel truly better than ever.

Maybe you don't need to know the "right" nutrition, but just to shift the attitude and feelings you have about and towards yourself.

And then your behaviour follows from there.

What are your thoughts about this?

If you feel you need to know more about nutrition that serves you, your health and your goals, please ask me any questions, I will be happy to help.

Have an incredible Wednesday!

Adrijana