#108: Want to Avoid Halloween Candy? A Common Sense (and possibly unconventional) Approach

Hungry: Trust Your Body. Free Your Mind.

With Halloween around the corner, the idea of being around so much candy may be giving you a real fright (sorry, I couldn’t help it). And I get it. There was a time when being around candy felt so conflicting to me. I wanted to eat it, but not eat too much of it. I wanted to enjoy my favorites, but more often than not, when I started to eat one Snickers bar, it would turn into far too many.

The common advice that we get from diet culture is to not have candy in the house and get rid of it as soon as we can. Or, to just buy the candy we don’t like so we won’t be tempted. Wouldn’t it be nice to just feel relaxed around candy and trust yourself enough to know that you can eat it if you’d like it and leave it when you’re not wanting it? I want to guide you to that place.

On the podcast, I’m going to share with you why the conventional advice around avoiding Halloween candy doesn’t work. And offer you a common sense approach using intuitive eating principles. I’ll share what to do this year, if you haven’t started practicing intuitive eating yet and what to do if you’ve been practicing intuitive eating for a while but want to feel even more free around all foods, including Halloween Candy.