Any relationship with food that causes suffering is unnecessary suffering

In my own recovery from an Eating Disorder (recovered for 15 years) I tried for years to master Intuitive Eating, but despite my best efforts I kept slipping into over eating/emotional eating….and then restricting/compensating. It left me discouraged and feeling like a failure. And then, I discovered Plant Based Nutrition. It all made so much obvious sense to me, and the science backed it up. THIS is the way we were born to eat. I dived further into the research and went Plant Based that week. I felt nourished on a cellular level for the first time in my life. I felt satisfied & energized after meals. For the first time in my life my blood sugar wasn’t on a roller coaster, I felt so much more regulated and steady. I realized that what we eat has a significant impact on our mental health, just as much as our physical health. I lost the excess weight I had been carrying without going hungry. I couldn’t believe it, I thought carbs were the enemy, but I was eating whole food carbs more then I had ever allowed myself, learning that they are our bodies preferred source of energy. Plant Based nutrition was the missing piece of the puzzle for my Intuitive Eating Aspirations. I could truly stop eating when I felt satisfied and noursihed on a cellular level and was not entertaining foods that felt addictive to me. This freed me from the suffering of my struggles with food. I found the more I ate Plant Based the more I enjoyed the food and even preferred it. I un-hijacked my taste buds from the Standard American Diet. My mindset shifted from restriction to nourishment in abundance. My ED was about self hatred, numbing out, and essentially using food as a drug. Plant Based Nutrition led me back to self partnership and living an awakened life. I am forever grateful to have found this way of eating, to no longer have to struggle and suffer with food, there were times I didn’t know if that was possible. Plant Based Nutrition is the way we were born to eat, food was never meant to cause us so much confusion and suffering, and it doesn’t have to.