Alester Jones

How Thanksgiving Can Be A Difficult Time For Someone Loyal To A Diet

Owing to intuitive eating, Thanksgiving-a tradition that is intended to be about appreciation, bounty, and let's be real, stuffing as well as pecan pie-has been taken over by diet chat, "healthy" exchanges, and food anxieties. Read this article to learn tips about how to eat instinctively this Thanksgiving and sign-up for hearing services in Brisbane if needed.

Conventional media have never received any prizes for encouraging regular food, but this time of year the articles are hitting a new degree of madness. Yeah, even more than May's drive to sustain a near-death calorie shortage, merely to wear a bikini, a piece of clothing that unlike what we've been taught, looks nice on all bodies.

The entire point of Thanksgiving is to be thankful, in fact, for food. However, most of the Thanksgiving posts concentrate on ways to starve yourself: how to reduce carbs in your beloved holiday meal, how to not "overindulge," what workouts to do to "burn off" the stuffing. Again, we're sent messages to limit ourselves to a place where food is meant to be abundant, just another case of a diet culture's mixed message.

These mixed signals can make Thanksgiving a very difficult time to eat, particularly if you're dealing with eating disorders. Loved ones push second helpings on you, and go on a guilty-charged screed about how many calories there are in the squash casserole.

This year it's going to be a little different for COVID. Many of you (hopefully, everyone) are connecting on zoom, restricting celebrations to your bubble, or going through a tight quarantine until you meet in person. So, talk to your nutritionist in Brisbane if you have any dilemmas before diving into that full tray of stuffing.

Author Bio

Jones is a certified psychologist. He advises people on health care, dietitian, nutritionist, podiatrist and travelling care in Brisbane. You can find his thoughts at health assessments blog. See this website for more info about hearing services in Brisbane.