Pathway to Normal Eating: Reach Your Own Happy Medium

The single most important principle about non-normal eaters is: if your eating has been not normal for a long time, it will require a long time to correct. Therefore, the most important things to practice are patience and persistence.

Never giving up is the only way to make a permanent change. Even though I’d dearly love it to be different, there’s no A-Ha moment that will cause an instant change that will last.

Additionally, mistakes will become your friends. As you learn to stop beating yourself up about mistakes, you will gradually learn to turn the mistakes into advantage, building up knowledge that eventually becomes food wisdom.

The single activity you can do to speed you along is to keep acknowledging and rewarding positive behavior (it helps to define your desired goals beforehand). Most of the best rewards are free. Keep telling yourself the things you are doing well, and there is ALWAYS something to congratulate yourself for every day. This positive feedback is like gasoline on a fire - it will increase your learning and your success.