Your Body Has Your Back
Your relationship with food is more important than anything you’ll eat.
Ever.
If you’re limiting access to a type of food, you’re giving that food power that something intended to nourish shouldn’t have. Binge invitation, anyone?
If you’re giving yourself permission to eat nutritious food, but not delicious food, (not to suggest that they are mutually exclusive) you’re missing out on a happy and health-promoting part of eating. Obsessing about eating food for pleasure zaps any goodness that food had to offer. No, thanks.
If you have the privilege of having access to food, food matters a heck of a lot less than diet culture wants you to believe.
Kale won’t save you from anything, even if diet culture gives it a superhero cape. As an aside, I almost feel badly for kale because it has existed for centuries, and is now the brunt of many diet/wellness culture jokes. Not badly enough to stop making them, but that poor old veg.
Your body is designed to handle food.
Lots of it.
It’s okay to listen to and honor your appetites. Doing so allows you to move on. Doing so reduces food preoccupation. Doing so puts food in its place as only ONE component of what makes up health.
Your body has your back.
Eat.
Food you enjoy.
Regularly.
Forever.
Healing can’t happen on an empty stomach and it can’t happen when hyper-vigilance around food is the name of the game.
Healing happens.
Recovery happens.
Focus on relationship to food, not specifics of what you eat.
