What else does eating unhealthy mean? To eat what doesn’t suit you. We are unique and unrepeatable. Just as you look at me and recognize that I am Oana, me and no other person, so is my diet. I mean, it’s just mine. Diet Oana. There are 7 and a half billion diets on this earth. We are bombarded with more and more confusing information: “coffee, the elixir of health!”, “Coffee, the enemy in the shadows!”, “Eat this food and you will live to be 100 years old!”, “You have eaten wrong all your life, eat what and how I tell you!”, “the blue grass in the depths of the ocean heals you of all diseases!”. Want to see if coffee is good for you? Drink it and see how you feel after: you have palpitations (make it weaker or change the brand with a softer one), your stomach hurts (eat something before). But if it gives you a feeling of well-being in the first minutes of the day, you enjoy its aroma and taste while watching the sunrise through the window and then it helps you visit the place where the king walks alone, why drink cold vegetable or fruit juice (brrr, cold …) to get upset or to have a sudden increase in blood sugar, in the case of fruit juice, and after an hour to be hungry again? If opinions about coffee are so polarized, the only one who tells me if it’s good or bad is my body. Where opinions are unanimous, as in the case of trans fats, it is clear that they are bad, and if we consume them we should assume the consequences.
Our food, decomposed, looks like this: proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals. The proportion in which we consume these components is unique to everyone, no matter what nutritionists say. There are some indications for certain diseases: low carb in autoimmune diseases, frequent and equal meals in diabetes, few fibers and spices in gastritis, etc. There are minimum rules to follow. But you don’t have to eat broccoli if it repulses you just because it is said to be a superfood with a lot of qualities (broccoli is really tasty if you find a way to cook it that satisfies you).
The optimal diet is a process of personal trial and error, not another person’s recipe. Let’s find our own balance between eating foods we like and foods that do us good, that keep us healthy and at a normal body weight. Self-knowledge, information, moderation, balance and self-compassion.
