Remove The Term "Guilt-Free" From Your Food Vocabulary, Dietician Suggests

A dietician has banned the term "guilt-free" in her food terminology. Eating with shame feeling increases the stress hormone, Cortisol and eventually causes weight gain and cravings. 

Yahoo reports the perception of a dietician concerning the removing of the said term in food vocabulary. Her example goes like this: When someone labels a cookie guilt-free, it means that eating a regular cookie makes you feel guilty. This feeling would exacerbate horrible feeling after eating the cookie.

Eating a chocolate cookie should be a willful indulgence and not a guilty pleasure. It must make you feel happy and energized. Hence, you do not think that what you do is bad and to round up for this, you will need to consume salads for the whole day.  

"Focusing on positive behavior and listening to your body's hunger and fullness cues will motivate you to eat better. You don't need to mentally punish yourself to do it. By removing this term from your food vocabulary, you'll reduce those shameful feelings, lower your cortisol levels, and you may lose a few pounds, too," the dietician concluded.

A Day in the (Fat) Life describes guilt-free as nothing that is moral, legally, or wrong with it. In food matters, specific kinds of foods are considered moral. Sugar, fats, and eggs are found to be morally inferior. And people who eat much of these are also found to be morally inferior.

Some questions may arise such as: "Why do you eat a sandwich with chocolate filling?" or "Do you know that this is bad for your health?" These questions are fashioned to make people feel guilty. It explained that eating food whether it is a chocolate cake or a baked potato is not, in any way, a moral deficiency.