How to apply Atomic Habits to breaking the food rules to achieve food freedom.

I am not sure if you have read Atomic Habits, a very popular self help book by James Clear that have helped thousands of people achieve their goals. I have to admit I am REALLY bad when it comes to trending books and movies and can get behind because well, life. I finally read Atomic Habits over the summer and I was just thinking how Atomic Habits can definitely apply to achieving food freedom and Intuitive Eating.

Reading how people transformed their lives for the better and the self-help genre books are my favorite types of books to read!

You, like me I am sure have been dieting all your life, years and decades even. So stopping dieting and practicing Intuitive Eating now can seem like an overwhelming task. But just like anything else in life you are trying new, it won’t be a quick fix or happen overnight.

This is why implementing Atomic Habits can be one way to go about it. For those who have not read Atomic Habits yet, it’s basically making the changes in your life in small bite sizes instead of all at once. It makes sense because going at it from an all or nothing mindset can set you up for failure. 

For instance, making peace with food involves allowing to give yourself unconditional permission to eat ALL the foods. You may be inclined, like I was, to start eating alllll the foods at once that you were avoiding this entire time due to dieting, restricting, and trying to eat just the “good foods”. 

But starting with that one food rule and going with it for awhile until you are ready to add more foods may be a more effective to go about it. This isn’t a race and reminder, not a diet or set of food rules. Going at your own comfortable pace would be the way to approach it.

And not having to make it a daily habit at first may be what you need to get started, even one meal or one day out of the week is great! This is your journey and you get to set the tone and pace for your food freedom journey.

Have you signed up for your free guide to “ How to Kickstart your Food Freedom Journey” yet? If not it has very quick tips to get you started. You can access it here at this link: How to Kickstart Your Food Freedom Journey