There is no one size fits all approach to nutrition. Unfortunately, in our current diet culture, we are led to believe that every solution is a magic bullet. The result is that we end up thinking that nothing works for us. We begin to think all food is bad - either because it is bad for us or it tastes bad.
This of course leads to more anxiety over, and often because of, our nutrition.
It’s a highly emotional and polarizing issue, one where there are many silent victims - those who continue to suffer from unhealthy habits, disordered eating, or food insecurity. We come to fear food because we are led to believe that meat is murder, carbs are deadly, or fat is bad for our hearts.
We have developed a first world scarcity mindset around food, and it’s causing turmoil on our mental and physical health.
It’s really not about the “what” we’re eating that is causing problems, it’s more about the why. It’s our relationship with food that’s often broken. And in order to fix that relationship, we need to shift away from the restrictive, toxic, and “scarcity” mindset of our current diet culture, and instead develop a healthy and abundant relationship with nutrition. Doing so requires us to look at the three F’s.
1. Fuel
2. Function
3. Feel
