Eating: discovering what "works" during the impossible now

I feel for my second blog post I have to address the virus in the room. Well, it's not in the room with me right now...at least I think it's not. Hold on while I go wipe the doorknobs down one more time.

Okay, so for my second blog post I am going to talk about everyone's least favorite but most popular topic, COVID-19. How is everyone doing?

In my house, we have hit what Brene Brown has coined the "6 Month Wall." Day 2 of a new job. Act 2 of an epic movie. (Btw....I won't be offended if you stop reading now and go listen to this podcast. In fact, I encourage it. Just come back and let me know what you thought of it.)

So, as Brene says (I comment on her Instagram posts so we're best friends now), the build up is over and we're just trudging through our middle space reality wondering how long it will last. The kids are in Virtual School. Hubby is at actual work (masked up of course). And I am sitting here typing a blog post that may never be read by literally anyone .....because who reads blogs anymore in the land of Insta-Tok? (Wix estimates this post is a three minute read btw...an eternity when there's so much doom-scrolling to get to!)

But it's important to me to work on this because I feel it infuses more of my true voice into this website and ultimately, my nutrition practice. So here I am. I want you to know me better so you can decide if you like me and if we're a good fit. I hope we are.

I want to talk about eating in the world of COVID-19, since ultimately if we work together, eating may come up. In the span of six short months, my family has gone from having new found time and cooking beautiful new recipes using the contact-free delivered groceries only.....to allowing contact free delivered takeout once in a blue moon for a MUCH needed cooking break- but only if we put the food on a new plate and reheated it and burned the original container and washed our hands 10 times afterwards ......to curbside pick up for groceries and take out once a week (that we eventually started eating out of the original containers because our dishwasher was broken).... to finally, bravely going back into the actual grocery store and, truthfully, slowly falling back into our pre-COVID rut of rotating sameness. Anyone else?

Phew. If you weren't already struggling with balanced eating, don't be surprised or shame yourself if you are now given all the new decisions and obstacles that come with deciding what to eat.

Our mental bandwidth has to go into so many anxiety-filled choices every day just to navigate our current world that thinking about nourishing food may be on the back burner. And your COVID-19 era food journey may look a little different than mine, but my guess is regardless of how it has played out, it has been quite a change - whether logistically, mentally or healthily - from how/when/where/what/why you ate in February of this year. (Remember the innocent, ignorant bliss of February?)

All this is to say that if you've been on a food roller coaster, before or during this pandemic, you're not alone. But since we do find ourselves in this proverbial second act and since we don't know how long we will be here, let's center ourselves and try to figure out your version of COVID-era health and wellness together. It won't be perfect and it may not be the same every day for every mood for every body, but let's dig in, stumble, fall, redirect, re-evaluate and grow together. Allow me the honor of supporting you as we work on whatever it is we decide you need during the impossible now. Grace, balance and baby steps will be our guiding lights. To get through today. To get through lunch.