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A reminder for the mid-week: you are enough.

A reminder for the mid-week: you are enough.

People pressure others so much to eat exactly like

People pressure others so much to eat exactly like them claiming their way is best. 🤔 says who!?

If you want to be vegan, vegetarian, keto, paleo, eat only organic, eat meat, fine! Do whatever you want with your body, but please stop telling other people they HAVE to eat the same way you do.

Here's why:

1. Your way isn't the best for everyone. It might not even be the best for you.

2. Not everyone can afford your lifestyle healthwise and money-wise.

3. You don't take other cultures into consideration with your unwanted advice.

4. It's annoying. No one asked.

Do you find yourself eating food that you don't ev

Do you find yourself eating food that you don't even like so that you can be "healthy"?

I once had a client tell me that she's been eating boiled chicken with steamed vegetables for her meals, no sauce, no nothing. I, trying not to show visible disgust on my face 😬, asked "Is that a meal that you enjoy?". She answered, "no! It's gross. But it's healthy so I have to eat it." My next question is "why?". Why do you have to eat a food that you don't like? What is the purpose of doing that? To be healthy? How is constantly feeding yourself food that doesn't feed your soul healthy?

You don't have to eat food that you don't like. You don't have to eat food that someone else told you you have to eat to be healthy. You don't have to eat food that you tell yourself that you need to eat to be healthy.

Check in with yourself during your next meal. Are you eating this meal in the name of health? Or are you eating it in the name of developing your relationship to food? And season your food.

I hear so often that someone in the body positive

I hear so often that someone in the body positive community is shaming someone for weight loss, telling them that's a horrible thing to want. On the other hand, I see a lot of people saying weight loss is the only answer to things that even have nothing to do with weight.

What if we were in the middle? What if it's not either extreme?

There's no shame in desiring weight loss and I'm sorry if I or anyone else has made you feel that way. Why wouldn't someone want to lose weight when so many things are telling us that weight loss is the answer for all of our problems? I totally get it!

What I will say is that weight loss is not the answer. Weight loss is not a magical fix. There's so much more under that desire to lose weight whether that's needing to feel accepted or wanting to be able to run around with grand kids. Also, intentional weight loss doesn't work!! I'm sure that's not easy to hear. It does not work and the pursuit of it will lead to more and more challenges along the way.

What would it look like to dig deeper and see what's driving that desire to lose weight?

Work with me and find out. I will not work with you to help you lose weight. I will help you explore the deeper issues and work with you on accepting and respecting your body the way it is.

People often say how bad certain foods are. "What

People often say how bad certain foods are. "What makes them bad?" They often don't know. They just go with the latest trend that says this food is bad and this food is good.

So now avocados and turmeric have become "basic" food when they were demonized before a white person said that they're okay and turned them into "superfoods". Check out @black.nutritionist awesome post on superfoods 👌🏾

And how about MSG? Monosodium glutamate. How many of you believe that it's detrimental to your health? Where did that belief come from?

Stop demonizing foods that you just don't understand. Do some research from REPUTABLE sources. Ask questions. Don't just jump on the train because Suzy said some food is bad when really she's just xenophobic.

What are some other foods that often get demonized for no reason?

I had a client ask me this recently. She adopted a

I had a client ask me this recently. She adopted a diet specifically of foods deemed acceptable by white people and stopped eating her own culture's foods because she was told that they are "unhealthy". She was told that she is only allowed to eat those foods once a week on "cheat days".

How can we work towards accepting food from our cultures when we still get messages like this ALL THE DANG TIME!?

We need to learn to accept our foods, but white people, you also have to stop spreading these messages around as well.

You need to be included in changing the narrative. It's not all up to us.

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