Principle 4: Challenge The Food Police

Scream a loud NO to thoughts in your head that declare you're "good" for eating minimal calories or "bad" because you ate a piece of chocolate cake. The food police monitor the unreasonable rules that diet culture has created. The police station is housed deep in your psyche, and it's loudspeaker shouts negative barbs, hopeless phrases, and guilt-provoking indictments. Chasing the food police away is critical step in returning to Intuitive Eating.