All my life, I’ve had an.. Interesting relationship with food. Not eating this food group or that, trying to achieve a certain look by eating more or less. For many years my focus was using food as a means to an end. Want to look better in that dress? Minimize your servings at meal times and up the water intake. Wishing for clearer skin? The dermatologist mentioned something about hormones in animal products… You see where this starts to go.
The point I’m making is that it’s super easy for us (particularly in the age of the internet) to get hyperfocused on only eating certain things, in order to achieve a certain goal (often with unexpected repercussions). Instead, I want to focus on the whole. How different parts of our bodies and our lives can work together - rather than in insolation.
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