I have a really poor relationship with food. Growing up, my parents never enforced the idea of ‘eat your greens,’ and my mom was mostly focused on body shaming. I’m trying not to slip back into an ED spiral, as I’ve just gotten out of it, and I’m working on disciplining myself—something I was never really taught. I’ve read countless articles, but I’m still struggling to grasp what a balanced diet actually looks like. For example, if I have mostly fats and carbs for lunch, fruit as a midday snack, and protein for dinner, is that balanced? Or should I have a little bit of everything in each meal? And those percentages they mention in articles—how do you even figure those out? I naturally have a small appetite, and I find it really hard to eat as much as I’m ‘supposed’ to. Honestly, I’m clueless when it comes to balanced meals and would love some clarity.
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Yes splitting the food groups across meals like that is totally fine. Overall diet is much more of a high level thing. What you eat for one individual meal doesn’t truly matter to hat matters is the combination of foods you eat over a week.
Now, setting stuff up where every meal has a carb, protein, and vegetable can be very helpful especially when you are meal planning and like, cooking a bunch of food one day to consume throughout the week. It can just make things a bit simpler when you’re planning multiple days in advance.
But like, your body is designed for survival in the wild. Our ancestors did not eat 3 square meals a day with perfectly portioned veggies and meat. If you eat a buncha meat and potatoes one day, and then the next day you have nothing but salad, that is totally fine as long as things even out in the grand scheme.
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