The reason why it’s good to acknowledge if you have a scarcity mindset around food, is because that mindset is playing a key role your obsession with food, especially in the present moment. It’s not causing you to think ahead and plan and ration and do the things that diet culture tells us to do. Scarcity mindset causes us to obsess about the thing we don’t have and over-desire it in the present moment. We overvalue immediate benefits at the expense of future ones. When we have scarcity beliefs around food, we’re tricking our brains into thinking we’re in crisis mode (like maybe a famine is coming),so our lower primal brain just wants to survive, making us search out food even more.

The bottom line, is the more we limit food (types, amounts, time of day), the more we limit the more we obsess about not being able to have all the food we want, and the more we want food. We are artificially increasing our desire for food when we tell ourselves we can’t have food. Food that, often, if we didn’t have that mindset, we might not even really like or desire all that much. I know since healing my relationship with food, those ‘trigger foods’ that I would feel so scared around because they had such power over me, are not the foods I actually delight in the most now.

Central to the scarcity mindset is the belief that there is never enough. So even when we eat more than our bodies want, we still might desire food because we still believe there is never enough. So even though our body doesn’t want the food, our brain does.

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