My clients tend to be overachieving and type-A. When we first start to work together, the most frequent question is “is X food healthy?”
What clients come to realize in my Truce with Food method, is that “healthy” is a relative term. It all depends on your current health, lifestyle and relationship to food.
One way you can begin to understand what healthy means for you is to flip the “healthy” dictatorship in your mind and mainstream media sideways. This evolves the idea of healthy into a continuum, rather than a single end-place. Here, healthier choices keep you moving forward, guaranteeing you will eventually arrive at feeling your best.
For example, the other week, I thought I brought two hard boiled eggs to mash with half an avocado to work for breakfast.
Turns out, I didn’t hard boil them at all (not all YouTube videos are created equal!). While I’m not normally a fan of using microwaves, I knew without a protein and fat rich breakfast, my morning would be unproductive, I’d be crabby and hunting down carbs by 11 a.m. (that’s what poor blood sugar balance feels like for me).
So I put two eggs in a mug with a bit of water and microwaved them for a minute. I added my avocado and voila! My morning was full of creativity and feeling good. Exponentially, it set me up to make healthy choices for the rest of the day.
Choosing “healthier” prevents a downward eating spiral because you realize good and bad choices are relative. (Tweet this out!) Everyone loses their footing on a staircase that doesn’t really exist.
The most exciting part is that with each better choice, you’ll start to believe you can occupy the healthiest space, moderation. Moderation is the new radical!
As I tell my clients, being realistic about your food choices allows you to remain optimistic about reaching your health goals.
To loving the great paradoxes of life!
Be well,
Ali
P.S. If you’re like me and just discovered you could microwave eggs, here are more easy “you can microwave an egg?” recipes I’ve since discovered for next time I’m in a pinch.
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