Boring Food is Still Food
Moving away from diet culture and disorder means freedom with food. And freedom with food hopefully means variety, adequacy, flexibility, excitement, and fun.
AND
Sometimes food is boring. Sometimes food is eaten because we know we need energy, we know we need to perform a task, or do a job, or simply need fuel to be alive. Sometimes we eat something simply because it is around. Not because it is something that we want or that we are craving or that necessarily leaves us feeling excited. Not because it is the best thing we’ve ever eaten.
And this is so hard when we are newly free from the handcuffs of diet culture or disorder. When we might be interacting with food freely for the first time in a long time, or maybe for the first time period.
And of course, because this permission and flexibility and freedom is new, it feels like everything we eat should be the next BEST thing.
This, to me, is one of the beauties of intuitive eating. As we give ourselves permission to eat food, we can also give ourselves permission to eat food that we don’t deem to be exceptional.
There will be more food.
There will be more exciting eating opportunities.
Boring food is still food.
