Since turning the corner from fat to fit, five years ago, I
have at times struggled with overwhelming moments of guilt when consuming what
society tells us are ‘bad foods’.
Segregating a food or food group as forbidden, naturally
enhances its desire. The forbidden fruit complex, or in this case, the
forbidden flapjack.
This was always a detail of fad diets such as ‘slimming
world’ which perplexed me the most. Labelling food as ‘syns’ only makes my
overactive imagination imagine an avocado shaped devil doing a striptease…. and
I won’t even go into their unlimited muller light policy!
Speaking from experience, I know the power that giving
labels to foods can cause on your overall mental state, and often deprivation
of certain foods leads to binging, guilt and over-excessive cardio ‘compensation.’
