Are you enjoying food?

• Are you enjoying food? •

It is hard as a Dietitian sometimes to help people enjoy food. Years of dieting or of associating healthy food with boring food sometimes leave people unwilling to talk to us. Unwilling to share our enthusiasm. Unwilling to see healthy eating as anything shy of a punishment for being ‘naughty’ when they eat chocolate. Several of my clients recently have remarked about how “not strict” I am. It surprises me because I can’t imagine I would ever tell anyone off, or shame any food choice. Yet that’s what is almost expected of me when I say I’m a Dietitian. 

I’d like to think that my role is to help my clients enjoy food. In a safe, healthy, conscious way. In a way that takes away the guilt, the excess cost, the extra stress. Food is so much more than fuel. And fertility nutrition is so much more than a diet. 

So here is a picture of me eating a hefty slice of carrot cake I made. Because food is so much more than just fuel. And I love cake