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It’s pretty screwed up that feeling guilty after eating any food is even an optional response. Yet so many of us do it.
The countless health and fitness sources creating information that feeds this terrible habit certainly don’t help. There’s the good/bad dichotomy used to label foods (e.g.: calling baked chicken and steamed broccoli “good” and ice cream “bad”). There are the You ate it, now negate it! memes that display the calories in your favorite candy bars and treats and the number of jumping jacks or burpees or miles you must run to burn them off.