Food is not just fuel

“Do you derive ANY joy from food?”

Absoflippinlutely I do. I just might not take the same pleasures as YOU do. And that’s ok.

For some people, food joy might be;
🔀 variety
🗺 location
🔥 challenge
👨🏼‍🍳 cooking
❄️ uniqueness
🧪 precision
🍢 adventure
🫂 sharing
📍 convenience (that’s me)
🔒 security (that’s me)
🍠 utility (that’s me)

I have worked with so many nutrition/training clients who get questions like this, often resulting in bigger conversations with friends, families, coworkers etc. Clients noted feeling critiqued and judged for their current relationship with food or nutritional habits/choices that they then felt they had to defend and/or hide, contributing to further nutritional dilemmas. It’s important we try to appreciate and understand that we all view things through our OWN lenses and with our own biases/experiences. Perhaps you can’t imagine a life without deriving YOUR particular joys from food. And for others the opposite is true.

Doing this can help us avoid putting loved ones, friends, and colleagues on the back foot and leaving them with nutrition baggage (it’s a useful skill outside of nutrition too I’d imagine).