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I've struggled with eating since elementary. I wanted to lose weight, even when I did not have to. I tried to eat as healthily and as little as possible, which turned out to be very unsustainable and miserable. My weight has fluctuated a lot and I've gone through phases of extreme restriction like weighing everything I ate and eating very plain foods. Then swinging into the other direction of bingeing and eating everything I forbade earlier. One thing that really changed my relationship with food was meeting my boyfriend George. Eating with someone really shows you what you struggle with. George is a master of intuitive eating, did I start observing how he ate. That way, I learned a lot about this natural way of trusting your body and eating, including recognizing when I'm hungry and eating based on that. That encouraged me to start experimenting with my own body, and I am now at a point where I don't restrict anything. I eat out a lot, and I love to cook. When I reflect about my current way and why does it feel good. I can recognize these 4 habits: 1. Listening to hunger and eating most of the time when I'm hungry. This does not mean always eating when I'm hungry. I sometimes eat for social reasons, just because it's lunch and we go out. Sometimes I just want to taste something or have a craving for something sweet, and I take a bite. I like eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I like the routine, so I mainly stick with that. But skipping dinner when I don't really feel like having it has helped me not feel bad about eating and not force myself to eat when I don't actually want to. 2. Allowing myself to eat everything. This has been a long path. I was afraid of everything fatty or sugary, and I was trying to eat low-calorie food all the time. Now I actually eat anything. I love fatty foods like olive oil, butter, avocado, and cream. Now I eat based on what I feel like eating. I love tasting new flavors! 3. Eating slowly. When I started eating everything, I also started feeling anxious while eating because I felt guilty about it. That made me eat faster, shoving the food down my throat, which made me eat too much, feel guilty, and then try to restrict more and eat healthy again. All that made me feel bad and eat more than I actually wanted to, because I ended up always eating fast and overeating.

I am Helena, the group founder. I am currently eating chicken with satay and teriyaki sauce almost daily. Haha, not a pretty picture at all. But simple and soo tasty! Good sauce saves anything.