Some perspective…

That one meal is just one of nearly 100,000 you will eat in your lifetime.

If you are holding onto it, allowing it to control your day or your eating patterns, here is a gentle reminder to let it go and take the control back.

Part of mindful eating is letting go of past experiences with food, including counting calories or tracking what you’ve eaten so far in a day.

Come along with me for another fun analogy. Now you wouldn’t necessarily expect yourself to pass a test if at every question you’re calculating the percent that you can get wrong. No, you’d be better off doing some calming breaths and relying on the fact that you went to lectures, studied hard, and built up a knowledge base.

If you approach your meals calculating how much you have left to eat (in your macros or total calories or otherwise) or base what you’re eating on what you already ate today and if you were “good” or “bad,” then this is going to impact your eating experience. It will lead to less mindful eating, as you will be thinking about facts that do not directly impact your own intuition, emotions, and hunger/fullness cues.

Only you know you best! No number on a scale of calories in your tracking app can tell you that.

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