Love this so much because I basically experienced the same thing.
I feel like it’s a problem that goes along with the teenage years to the mid-twenties that we seek to look for gurus or people to follow (that’s why these magazines speak to us girls, oh man, how much money have I wasted on instyle, womenshealth and shape magazines).
However, when we follow these gurus (that tell us what to eat and how much of it) we automatically learn to ignore the signs our own body sends us e.g. I’m satisfied - or I‘m hungry.
And then it becomes really problematic - once you follow one or different diets/gurus/magazine tips for a long period of time, it’s hard to release of those dogmas, because we feel lost without a program/diet.
In yogi words, it is agains ahimsa- when we harm our body by over/under eating against our natural feeling.
It happened in Fall of 2016 that I started to listen to my own body again. And I‘m so glad that I saw you just a month ago being so happy and full of bliss, when we met in Hawaii, Hannah. ♥️
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Yes! It was so beautiful to see you in Hawaii!! I'm so sure that our paths will naturally cross again without us even having to try and make it happen ✨💛 I also cringe to think of how much money I spent on those magazines! And even more time on these useless diets and, as you say, dogmas. It was the summer/fall of 2016 for me too, so we have been on parallel journeys! And that's such a good point about under or over eating being against ahimsa as it the opposite of peace and love to both deny yourself or stuff yourself full. I'd never thought of it like that before, thanks for your insight! Both states come from a place of self hatred, and so can be acts of violence against yourself.