The Why

The Why

Food is something that has been a strong part of my life, both as  happy and hard moments as a child and a teen. Then as a adult and mother.

The pressure to look a certain way, be a certain way is always around. Voices on shows, pictures in magazines. Every second ad is about juicers, diets, fat blasting machines and so on. All with the same undertone, that if you would be thinner, you would be better. If you are bigger then you are not good enough. In the ads it is woman with muffin tops, so bigger is anything that has a curve, a bit that sticks out, isn't toned. Which means you could always be improving. Always be buying into their products. Buy the next one and the next one. Always be reshaping the space you take up. As if the space is a rental and a certain standard of appearance is the rent. Otherwise you are subjected to being sorry you look that way, ate this or that. I think I speak to other woman more about the food they shouldn't eat but did or didn't eat and now they are proud. All forgetting food is fuel. All forgetting about the wellness behind the eating instead of the shape of the shadow they create.

Food is fuel. Your body needs food. Your body wants food. There needs to be a love with food again. Take joy in what you make, create or taste. Eat food because it is filling and wonderful. Not food that taste like cardboard. Not food because you are angry at yourself for eating so you binge on crap and not the absence of food so you can be that kilo difference for a day or so.

Food because you are hungry.

Food to fuel your body.

Food to sing to your taste-bubs.

This is my goal this year, because I am guilty of all of the above. I have given too much power to hating my appearance and punishing myself with food. I am guilty of yo-yo dieting, over eating and eating food that doesn't taste like food just because I am angry at food. I am guilty of treating my fuel with disrespect and losing my relationship with food.

Food and I have a bumpy relationship.

This year I am falling back in love with food. Want to join me?