I had (what I thought was) an epiphany about restriction. I have a lot of thoughts around being restricted or told what or what not to do or to eat. So I thought, hmmm. Maybe I think of restriction as a problem. My mom controlled what I ate, along with my family and even my dad up until he was 90!.

So if restriction is a problem, my solution was no restrictions. I gave up restricting myself with any foods or food groups. Trying to understand if this was even what might fit into this idea has still confused me. I am not certain I understand well, and not even sure I am explaining this with clarity.

I also know I see (my) overeating as a big problem. So if overeating is a problem and then the solution is to restrict, there we go with the restriction. But here it is a solution.

Can you take this confusing question and make it any more clear to me using these examples of overeating/restriction/no restrictions?

Restriction to over-eating: listener question