What is Healthy Eating??
The best way for me to describe healthy eating is to first describe "normal" eating. The best way to do this is to quote Ellyn Satter RD, ACSW:
"Normal eating is being able to eat when you are hungry and continue eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough of it - not just stop eating because you think you should. Normal eating is being able to use some moderate constraint in your food selection to get the right food, but not being so restrictive that you miss out on pleasurable foods. Normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad or bored, or just because it feels good. Normal eating is three meals a day, most of the time, but it can also be choosing to munch along. It is leaving some cookies on the plate because you know you can have some again tomorrow, or it is eating more now because they taste so wonderful when they are fresh. Normal eating is overeating at times: feeling stuffed and uncomfortable. It is also undereating at times and wishing you had more. Normal eating is trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating. Normal eating takes up some of your time and attention, but keeps its place as only one important area in your life. In short, normal eating is flexible. It varies in response to your emotions, your schedule, your hunger and your proximity to food."
In short, again, ALL food is good food in moderation. There are so many nutrition myths out there and so many people have too much focus on the food they "should" be eating. I'm happy to use this blog to tell you the truth about nutrition as well as bust the myths that are out there. I will also put body image into perspective because too many people feel they can change the physical things they don't like about themselves by changing the way they eat. How about we try to change the way we treat ourselves instead! It's time to learn to be nicer to ourselves...life is too short to waste time focusing on the unchangeable!
