Transcript: Why I Feel Guilty About Food (Even Though I Don't Believe in Diets)
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Ashley introduces the episode by admitting she's been intensely craving sweets, pasta, and soda lately and feeling guilty about it, even though she doesn't subscribe to diet culture. She speculates it might be hormones or something else she can't pin down.
Okay, so I don't subscribe to diets, but I am feeling guilty. What's up you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here. Welcome to More Movement Please, the podcast where I hope to inspire you to move your body more. Today I want to talk about guilt over eating. So I've told you guys many times that I don't subscribe to diet culture. I don't think that we should, you know, hold ourselves back from... anything that we want to consume but y 'all I don't know what it is lately but I have just been like craving the sweets and the carbs and the pasta and all the things and I'm like feeling hella guilty about it I've been trying to be balanced about how I handle you know how much I'm craving certain things I don't know if it's hormones I don't know if it's you know I don't know what it is but Basically, I just have been wanting sweets and pasta and all the things that are bad for you lately and soda.
Like, I don't know why, but I have been. And so I kind of wanted to talk about what I'm doing about it to deal with the guilt and the fact that I'm having all these crazy cravings. Basically, one of the big things I'm doing is I'm trying to move even more. Sounds a little nuts considering how much I'm moving. But when I'm getting these kinds of cravings, I've noticed that if I take a walk or just like do something movement wise, I feel the craving just a little bit less. And I'm also trying to make sure that like if I start feeling that way, I down some water and, you know, grab something that's at least a little bit healthier for me so that I can not be. wanting the bad thing. And so that's like the big thing that I've been doing. If you've ever listened to this podcast, the other thing I'm doing won't surprise you at all. And that is that I am allowing myself to indulge in some of these cravings that
Ashley shares what she's actually doing: moving more (noticing walks reduce cravings a bit), drinking water, allowing herself to indulge while pairing indulgences with something healthier, and trying not to let guilt spiral into binging. She frames it as being in a 'messy middle' and doing her best.
I've been having. Because the whole reason that I don't subscribe to diet culture is I truly believe that if you hold yourself back or tell yourself you can't have something, what's going to happen? You're going to want it, right? I mean, it's kind of like... don't push the red button. What do you want to do? All you can think about is that damn red button. You want to push the button. So I am allowing myself to indulge a little bit, but I am also trying to be very mindful when I am deciding to indulge. So like if I have the pasta. I'm making sure I have a big salad with it. Or if I have the sweets that I'm constantly craving, I force myself to make sure I'm also having something healthy with it.
So it's all about balance, right? I mean, moderation and omnibus rubus, moderation in all things. And so that's kind of where I'm at right now. And I just wanted to share it with you guys because I wanted to make it clear that just because I'm moving as much as I am and I am trying to be mindful of all the things that I'm consuming, it doesn't mean that I'm not. constantly having cravings myself and like I said it could be hormones it could be you know the fact that I've been sick or that I've been looking for comfort or or what I'm not sure but that's where I'm at and that's how I'm dealing with it and I I'm doing my best to not feel too guilty when these cravings take over because I know that if I let myself feel too guilty or if I don't allow myself to just indulge at least a little bit Then that's when the binging happens. That's when I overdo it. That's when I over consume. And so I hope
Ashley wraps up by asking listeners if they ever feel the same way about food guilt, directing them to famousashleygrant.com/fitness, and explaining that the whole reason she started the show was to help people like her feel less alone.
this is helpful. I hope that it inspires you to just kind of understand that it's not always going to be perfect. It's sometimes going to be messy. And right now I am in a messy middle and I'm dealing with it in the best way that I know how. So if you want to share your fitness journey with me or if you. you know, have a fitness tip that you'd like to share with my movers and shakers, I would love to hear from you. Head over to famousashleygrant .com backslash fitness.
I love hearing from you guys. I get such a kick out of it. And tell me, do you ever feel this way? Do you, you know, feel guilty whenever you're wanting to consume a bunch of crap? Because that's, it's normal. It definitely is normal. And I just, I love hearing from y 'all and it makes me feel a little bit less alone. I mean, that's the whole reason that I, I started the show is because I wanted to help the The girl like me who's trying to get in shape feel a little less alone in this journey. So I love hearing from y 'all. So famousashleygrant.com backslash fitness onwards and upwards, my friends. Have you worked out today?