Food Neutrality

It’s eating cake for breakfast and turning down dessert after a meal because you’re full and content.

It’s keeping a fruit bowl and a cookie jar in the kitchen, allowing yourself full access to both.

It’s hydrating throughout the day and saying “hell yeah” to a lemonade stand on a hot summer day.

It’s McDonalds drive-thru out of convenience and prepping lunch meals that you can bring to work.

It’s eating whenever you’re hungry.

It’s acknowledging that brownies have nutritional value, too! Calories, fat, and sugar. Yum.

It’s eating in a way that honors your mental and physical health.

It’s evidence that food is most enjoyalbe when you’re slightly hungry and knowing that uncomfortable fullness won’t last forever.

It’s changing your language from “junk food” to “fun food”.

It’s allowing yourself full permission to enjoy all foods without judgement. There’s no such thing as perfect eating. And even if there was, I wouldn’t want it. Food is not moral. You are not what you eat. Food is food.