‘Bad’ vs ‘good’ food… 🍕 🥪
We have a wonderful tendency to attribute moral values to the food we eat. This isn’t helped by the barrage of messages we get from social media etc. If we want to find a sustainable way to maintain or lose weight then we really need to try to get away from this sort of thinking. All it does is create an unhealthy relationship with food, causes unnecessary stress and unhappiness. Often these food labels are arbitrary anyway.
Here’s a classic example of that. If you grabbed a couple of slices of Margherita Pizza for lunch you might well think you’d been ‘bad’ and perhaps feel guilty. This may in turn influence how you approach the rest of the day – you might think f*ck it and just overeat for the rest of the day. But why? Pizza is essentially just bread, tomato and cheese. If you had instead had all of those items in the form of a sandwich you wouldn’t feel guilty would you? There is nothing wrong with a couple of slices of pizza or a cheese and tomato sandwich for lunch. Both have carbs, fat, some protein and a variety of micronutrients. Neither is inherently good or bad – they’re just foods. Now perhaps if you ate an entire pizza that may not be ideal if you were trying to stick to a certain calorie target and if you only ate Pizza and not much else then that wouldn’t be ideal in terms of a balanced diet, but that doesn’t make the Pizza itself bad! All foods are ‘good’ – it’s just about how much you have.
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