So, somethings been on my mind lately. A great blogger I follow recently posted on her Facebook page: I admit I failed. I did NOT eat the breakfast of champions. I had coffee instead. (No, I wont make this a habit!) Now, I dont mean to call out this particular blogger - shes awesome, actually - but this Facebook status seemed to encapsulate something I see a lot in the healthy foods community. If you arent adhering to whatever the prescribed diet is, youre failing. You are a failure - at eating. I really have no dog in the fight of what anyone eats for breakfast, but I am bothered by the characterization of a meal, or a not-a-meal, as a failure. Whatever you think makes for healthy food, talking about meals as failures strikes me as an unhealthy way to *characterize* food choices in general. If this is something you do, you probably do it to yourself, am I right? Its self-talk. No one talks to their friends, or their kids or their partner like this: You failure, your eggs werent pastured! You failed - you used unsprouted wheat for those homemade pancakes. Drive thru, huh? Hows it feel to eat a tortured animal? You sure failed the ethical meat test. I mean really, no one would say that to their friend, right? And yet this kind of self-flagellating dialogue is not only expected, its kinda encouraged throughout the whole and real foods communities. Its great to try to eat better - whatever that means for you - but I see this trend of equating food choices with self-worth, and I dont care for it. So Im going to ask every real foodie who might read this to try to please nourish yourself in the best way you can. No matter what you choose to eat for breakfast, or dinner, or teatime, nourishing yourself does not include unkind self talk about those food choices. Thanks for taking the time to listen.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:36:53 +0000
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