6 Tips For Eating Intuitively & Food Freedom While Travelling

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If travelling brings up food & body anxiety for you, this episode will help you learn how to go on vacation with food freedom, let go of rigid food & exercise rules, and enjoy your trip without guilt, shame or obsession over how you're eating or moving.

When I was struggling with my relationship with food, the idea of going on a vacation didn't bring up emotions of excitement or joy, like it should for most people. 

It brought up anxiety & fear.

In the throes of my disordered eating, I couldn't properly enjoy myself because I was so consumed with trying to control my food & burn calories through exercise.

Back home, I had structure, restrictions and rules to follow. I was able to keep my food anxiety in check as long as I stuck to my "safe foods", cooked at home and respected my self-imposed rules about what/when/how much I could eat. I worked out every single day, and felt guilty/anxious if I ever took a day off.

As you can imagine, being sent into a whole new and uncontrollable environment was a nightmare to me. Things like knowing every single ingredient in my food, going out to restaurants MULTIPLE times a week (or even a day!) or not exercising for a full week tied my stomach in a knot.

If I DID manage to push myself to travel, I was distracted during the entire trip. The places, the people, the new food, the experiences ... were are tainted by my obsession with rigid eating and exercising.

Last week, I took my first REAL long vacation since the pandemic to New Orleans, Louisiana. I had such a blast visiting one of my good friends and fellow business owner. I explored, learned about the culture, tried the local food (LOTS of it) and took some much needed time off. Off from exercise. Off from work. Off from responsibilities.

The week made me reflect on my past experiences with travelling, and how my history with disordered eating & dieting affected the way I felt while on vacation for many years. I feel so lucky and privileged to be able to travel without an ounce of anxiety around eating or exercise.

If you're on your Intuitive Eating journey & experience fear at the idea of travel, I'm going to share 6 tips (spoiler : + a bonus tip at the end!) that I wish someone had told me years ago. 

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