Your diet in your waking life might reflect the pressures and restraints you may be experiencing.
When speaking of diet in one’s dream, self-control, in various forms and levels are a frequent theme despite the symbolism compensating for other possible interpretations. Some evidence points to a symbolic meaning of diet that revolves around our character traits and psychological perspective.
Diet is about discipline, about enacting restrictions or rules for controlling one facet of one’s life. For some a restricted diet is about rediscovering disappointment and longing that have been repressed by pleasure and gratification. For others it may be a form of addiction – avoidance or repression through food instead of drugs or alcohol.
If dreamers are sensing that their excessive behavior will lead to their own demise and future failure, they may opt to impose restrictions on themselves early in life and monitor their food intake in order to achieve certain goals. This can also result within dreams when one’s project deadline is close because they subconsciously want it over with.