Need Structure? Use Food
So many of us are contending with the reality of life at home. Lacking the structure that we use to allow our days to feel scheduled and comfortable.
If you’re in that boat, consider using food as structure. Eating regularly will not only help keep your blood sugar stable, your mood as regulated as possible, (no hangry) and your regulars, regular (💩) but it can also promote the creation of a schedule that might otherwise be lacking.
It doesn’t matter when you do this. You can start at 1 AM, and that’s fine. Despite what diet culture suggests, your body doesn’t care what time you eat. Food is metabolized without judgment.
But aim for the guideline of threes: all three macronutrients, grains, fats, proteins, approximately every three hours.
Meals are a combination of 3 to 6 food groups at a time, and snacks are a combo of 2 to 3 food groups at a time. Thereby, the guideline of threes.
Ask yourself, what I feed this to a friend?
We are in this together.
Join me for breakfast, and utilize the extensive support that is available here via @covid19eatingsupport and @theshirarose and others, for comfort and connection and EATING in this wild moment in time.
#EYFF
Love,
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