@jadeainsworth6693

2 months ago

My grandmother had an eating disorder. She’d have like severe anxiety if she didn’t have a piece of food in each hand at all times, if the fridge and cabinet were not so full you couldn’t fit anything else in it, she’d be afraid she’d starve. As a result she bought a lot of cheap food to fill the space, went to multiple food banks as often as they would let her. Ate expired foods a lot, would cry when we had to throw away sour milk. she had a lot of health issues related to her eating problem. Including diabetes, kidney disease, a section of her intestines died and had to be removed. And so much more. but food was her only joy in life. If she lived to be 80 I’m sure she would have regretted eating just -anything she wanted. she certainly regretted it when she died at 76, when her entire body just shut down. I’m not saying don’t eat. but I am saying food is medicine. what you put in your body , and what you don’t put in, dictates the quality of your life. Intuitive eating is great, but only if you do not have disordered eating. I’m sure grandma thought she was eating intuitively. I’m much more careful about what I eat, and what I splurge on as a treat to myself now. Her last few years were just pure suffering.

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