Healthy Eating Isn’t A Virtue

It’s the path to everything you want in life.

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The ‘good’ and ‘bad’ eating narrative is limited and boring.

If you mostly understand healthy eating as what you can’t have or what some people do who have superhuman self-control, I’d like to propose a different outlook.

What if healthy eating is how you get what matters most to you in your life?

That requires you to have dreams. Things you imagine doing if you can muster your best self.

Take a moment to consider what one might be. What bubbles to the surface? An epic hike, surf camp, or a motorcycle ride across New Zealand? Or it might be something as simple as participating in a family beach trip without any worries about keeping up.

Own the wanting. That’s the process of talking to yourself to see what matters to you when things are quiet. Then let yourself settle into the desire.

This is how you understand what you value.

What would your life look like if it felt good to try?

Our culture teaches us that there’s fun eating (obesogenic food), and then there’s what you should do (eating healthy food). We hold a vague connection between…