Because the overwhelm and the grief is real: Ideas for when nothing sounds good, diet culture gets loud, or your body just doesn't have a strong opinion.
Abbie thank you for your posts currently I’m healing from major surgery and nutrition is challenging. Toast with butter sprinkled with common and sugar 🥰
I’m sending you so much healing energy, Laura! I can only imagine how much harder that is making food - and everything surrounding it. That toast combo is one of my favorites from childhood 🥰 Every time I eat it, I’m comforted.
This is so "same wavelength". Last fall, I started stocking cereal again because of a high craving for oaty "O"-type cereal. I have tried a couple brands and found one I love. It is crunchy, toasty, and soupy and really hits the spot. I also have been hitting the toaster a lot harder lately for brown-bread toast with butter and sometimes molasses. Yum!!!
Toast and cereal! Such grounding, comforting, satisfying foods. And ironically (or perhaps very intentionally?) two foods demonized by diet culture. It's powerful to reclaim them. Also love the reminder about molasses -- SO good!
Food has been hard for me lately, especially on days where nothing sounds good and I’m really hungry, but don’t have an appetite for anything.
I also rely on cereal a lot. I bought a lot of the new ones for new cereal season (one of the positives of January 😊). I got Dark Chocolate Reese’s Puffs, Annie’s Cookie Crunch (Sprinkle and Original), Mott’s Apple Cinnamon, and Confetti Cheerios. My favorite so far is the Annie’s Cookie Crunch Sprinkle because sprinkles make me happy. 🧁
I’ve also been enjoying my box of Sugar Cookie Honey Bunches of Oats that came out around the holidays.
I definitely still experience a lot of guilt and shame about having a big bowl of cereal after dinner every night, but I try to remember that it’s nourishing me, I enjoy it, and having more than one serving doesn’t mean I’m greedy or out of control.
Cereal is just the best ❤️ Those flavors sound so good! I love sprinkles — they bring joy to whatever we’re eating. I’ve been adding them to yogurt and granola bowls, toast, etc. No, you are never ever “greedy” for eating. No justifications or explanations needed. Eating is innocent 🫶🏼
Trader Joe’s is a perennial favorite too, as we’ve talked about before. I had Trader Joe’s spinach tortellini for dinner tonight and it was so comforting. Their serving sizes are so ridiculous though.
I’ve added sprinkles to oatmeal before too, and I love the crunch factor they add. The Trader Joe’s rolled oats with grains and seeds has been a comforting breakfast for me lately.
I wish more people understood this distinction, too! Hunger is so moralized and simultaneously punished. It makes nourishment so complicated for so many people. And yes, food is supposed to comfort us! I love coming back to that as a reminder, daily ❤️
Abbie thank you for your posts currently I’m healing from major surgery and nutrition is challenging. Toast with butter sprinkled with common and sugar 🥰
I’m sending you so much healing energy, Laura! I can only imagine how much harder that is making food - and everything surrounding it. That toast combo is one of my favorites from childhood 🥰 Every time I eat it, I’m comforted.
This is so "same wavelength". Last fall, I started stocking cereal again because of a high craving for oaty "O"-type cereal. I have tried a couple brands and found one I love. It is crunchy, toasty, and soupy and really hits the spot. I also have been hitting the toaster a lot harder lately for brown-bread toast with butter and sometimes molasses. Yum!!!
Toast and cereal! Such grounding, comforting, satisfying foods. And ironically (or perhaps very intentionally?) two foods demonized by diet culture. It's powerful to reclaim them. Also love the reminder about molasses -- SO good!
Thank you so much for this!
Aww thank you for being here, Camille!
Food has been hard for me lately, especially on days where nothing sounds good and I’m really hungry, but don’t have an appetite for anything.
I also rely on cereal a lot. I bought a lot of the new ones for new cereal season (one of the positives of January 😊). I got Dark Chocolate Reese’s Puffs, Annie’s Cookie Crunch (Sprinkle and Original), Mott’s Apple Cinnamon, and Confetti Cheerios. My favorite so far is the Annie’s Cookie Crunch Sprinkle because sprinkles make me happy. 🧁
I’ve also been enjoying my box of Sugar Cookie Honey Bunches of Oats that came out around the holidays.
I definitely still experience a lot of guilt and shame about having a big bowl of cereal after dinner every night, but I try to remember that it’s nourishing me, I enjoy it, and having more than one serving doesn’t mean I’m greedy or out of control.
Cereal is just the best ❤️ Those flavors sound so good! I love sprinkles — they bring joy to whatever we’re eating. I’ve been adding them to yogurt and granola bowls, toast, etc. No, you are never ever “greedy” for eating. No justifications or explanations needed. Eating is innocent 🫶🏼
Trader Joe’s is a perennial favorite too, as we’ve talked about before. I had Trader Joe’s spinach tortellini for dinner tonight and it was so comforting. Their serving sizes are so ridiculous though.
I’ve added sprinkles to oatmeal before too, and I love the crunch factor they add. The Trader Joe’s rolled oats with grains and seeds has been a comforting breakfast for me lately.
Love this!
Love YOU, Mara!!
I wish more people understood this distinction, too! Hunger is so moralized and simultaneously punished. It makes nourishment so complicated for so many people. And yes, food is supposed to comfort us! I love coming back to that as a reminder, daily ❤️