My Unpopular Opinion on Labeling Foods as GOOD or BAD and HEALTHY or UNHEALTHY
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My opinion on this likely is unpopular, so you got the warning, but I do hope that a few years from now that this is a much more widely held belief.
The purpose of this episode is not to tell you WHAT to eat or what foods are good or bad or to condemn you, but to help you shift your THINKING about not only how you "label" and see foods, but how you think about their EFFECT on you, your health, and your kids.
In love, always. xo, Liz
The purpose of this episode is not to tell you WHAT to eat, but to help you shift your thinking about not only how YOU "label" foods but how you think about their effect on you.
Ultimately, food is good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. Innately, we know what IS good for us and what isn't, even if we don't understand the intricacies at a level that a registered dietician or scientist does.
Food is THE foundational thing that can either make us sicker or healthier. You can either embrace that and make decisions from that spot or live in denial.
An NIH funded a study in 2018 that had 2 groups eat to satiety. The group that was allowed to eat processed foods to satiety over-consumed calories (and we know that leads to weight gain.) The group that ate minimally processed foods to satiety were in an effortless calorie deficit. No counting, just simple control of food quality.
Before you try to control how much you eat, you need to look at what it is you're eating. If you're buying foods that are hard for you to moderate consumption of, you are setting yourself up for failure and honestly, making long term vitality harder.
I heard this once and it stuck with me…
How do you want your last decade of life to be? Full of memories and vitality? Or in a hospital bed?
Food IS good or bad. Healthy or unhealthy. Because it affects us much more than just today.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] Okay, you got the four warning. My opinion on this is likely unpopular, but I do hope that a few years from now, that's not the case, but either way stick with me because I believe when we simply listen to others, opinions that are not our own, we are able to better understand ourselves our own decisions, our own.
Our weaknesses, our strengths, and ultimately reassess anything that does need reassessing in our lives. If we constantly live in our own bubble and in our own world. And don't hear things that challenge our thinking, we don't change. We don't say that. We say that. Now I do want to say before we get into it, that my purpose in this episode is not to tell you what to eat or what is good and bad and tell you that you're doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing.
But I want to simply help you shift your thinking, not only about how you label foods, but how you think about their effects. Okay. So my very likely unpopular opinion on labeling food as good or [00:01:00] bad or healthy or unhealthy, let's get into it.
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And I will chat with you. Okay. Okay, so good food versus bad food, healthy versus unhealthy. I was chatting with a friend the other day about this, and honestly, I've had conversations about this with people on and off the past, past a year or two, because overall in culture, I've personally noticed a trend towards complacency on a lot of things, nutrition being a huge one before I go too far, I do want to say the purpose of this episode is not to tell you what to eat.
But it's helped you shift your thinking about not only how you label foods, but how you think about their effect on you. The friend, I most recently chatted with us about her name's caisson of the, her pursuit podcast. You will love her stuff if you love this podcast, by the way. So go subscribe stat if you haven't yet.
But we were actually talking about anxiety. Specifically about how food and movement exercise, things like that affect it for her. And as I recently shared had an [00:04:00] experience of that feeling of anxiety. I shared it on the podcast not too long ago. And I was, we were talking about how food and movement affected.
How anxiety affects you. And it got me thinking about how we see food and label food and meat. We got into the weeds of that conversation to the two of us, but ultimately in my opinion, and again, this whole episode is just my opinion for you to take in and take what you want and leave what you don't, what you don't want.
But ultimately food is good or bad, and food is healthy or unhealthy as much as. We don't want to see it that way. There are ways that it affects our body well, and there are certain foods that don't affect our body very well. We know what is good for us, and we know what isn't like deep down innately. We know, even if we don't understand the intricacies at a level that like a registered dietician or a scientist, does we do not.
And we don't have to [00:05:00] understand food and our biology and our digestive system and all these things. We don't have to understand all of that and be professionals at it to eat healthy and to treat our bodies with respect and, and fuel it with what it needs. Food is either making you sicker and sicker or healthier and healthier, like truly it just is.
And I'm speaking as someone. Just so you know, who comes from a past of disordered eating. I was never diagnosed with anything, but I definitely had a very, very, very unhealthy obsessive mindset around food and what I was eating, you've probably picked that up in bits and pieces and how I've shared my story on this podcast.
But. I've very much so not been in a good place with how I saw food is healthy or unhealthy. So if this could trigger you in any way, you can absolutely turn this episode off and save it for a later date when you're in a better mindset. But if you are in a place where you just need a little bit of, you know, home hitting tough love to [00:06:00] get your Headspace in a better place around what you're putting in your body for your health.
Overall, this is the episode for you for. Now I also am at a place where personally, and I don't know if it's being 30 now. I really think the dad turned 30. I was like, wow. My back hurts more than usual. This is weird new decade. Hello. I'm not getting the morning. I woke up on my birthday, but personally I do notice the effects more so now than ever before.
When good food goes into my body, versus when bad food goes into my body, totally. A few days more of processed food than usual for me, my herniated disc in my L five S one gets inflamed and my back pain is so much worse. If I eat processed food, like more processed food than normal for me for a couple days, a few days after that, my back will start hurting.
And it does take a few days longer, like say I didn't eat well for like three days. It takes me about five to seven days of really focusing in, on [00:07:00] not eating as much processed food and being much more disciplined in my nutrition for my back pain to go back to a more manageable level, crazy hot. I also notice its impact, like when I'm eating more processed food or that unhealthy bad food as we could label it, I am more.
My energy levels are all over the place. My skin looks bad. I feel bloated. If you struggle with any of those things, nutrition should be the number one thing that you turn to first, and it really should be the number one thing that we are looking to to fix those underlying issues, skin, energy, mood, blow.
I mean, it is the foundation. What we're putting in our body is affecting everything. What shifted for me was having kids, because what I put in my body was either going to God-willing help me to live, to see my great grandkids. Like my grandmas are around to see their great, great grandkids, which is a huge blessing.
But when I have kids, I realized, wow, like what I'm putting in my body is [00:08:00] either going to help me stay around long enough to see, God-willing see my great-grand. Or it's going to make it harder, if not impossible. If I'm choosing foods that are again going to make it harder, if not impossible for me to get their food is the foundational thing that can either make us sicker or make us healthier.
You can either embrace that and make decisions from that place of, of knowing that and embracing it and saying I'm choosing this food because it's going to help me, God willing be around that. Or you can live in denial of that, but we do innately deep down, I believe, understand that fact. And again, we can either live from knowing that and live by that, that knowledge or we can live in denial.
I think it's time that we stop over-complicating nutrition and get back to the roots of what we innately do. No pun intended. That's a good one, right? Roots of what we know with food routes. Get it next time he walk into a grocery store. Mama, [00:09:00] I want you to take a second to appreciate the produce section for what it is.
Whole foods on processed foods. Innately. We know that less or not processed at all. Foods are best for us. We know that the stuff that's on the perimeter of the front of the fridge of the groceries. Is going to be much better for your body overall than the stuff in the Isles fun fact, if you didn't know that that's how grocery stores are laid out, the outer perimeter is going to be the least processed in the inner perimeter.
The inward Isles is more processed. So do you need to know all the recipes and know your macros and the exact calories to make your postpartum journey perfect. And to be your healthiest self? Absolutely not, not at all, not at all. There was actually, this is something I just heard recently. Very, very interesting.
Very interesting. So the NIH, which is the national Institute of health funded, a study in 2018, that had two separate groups. Eat to satiety AK like a [00:10:00] feeling of fullness and not, you know, not wanting any more food. And one group was allowed to eat only processed foods. And the other group ate minimally processed foods.
And what's really interesting is the group that was allowed to eat processed foods, to satiety over consumed calories. And we know that over consumption of galleries leads to weight. The group that ate minimally processed foods to society. We're in an effortless calorie deficit, like consistently, no counting, just control of food quality.
And we're not even talking about health right now. We're talking about the immediate, are you over consuming or in a deficit that you're not even trying to be in a deficit? Hmm. Wrap your mind around that before you try to control how much you're eating. Let's look at what it is you're eating. What is the quality of it?
If you're buying foods that are hard for you to moderate consumption of if you're buying those processed foods, if you're buying every [00:11:00] single week, a package Oreos, no shame. Just know that you're probably setting yourself up for failure because those foods are made for you to Oregon soon. Like that's how they designed them.
And it's making long-term vitality. Just being honest food is the foundational thing that again, can either make us sicker or make us healthier. You can either embrace that and make decisions from that place. Or you can live denying that fact and continue to make choices that ultimately are not serving you.
Okay. I heard this once and it stuck with me. So I'm going to end on this note and hope that it sticks with you. How do you want your last decade of life to be full of memories and vitality or in a hospital? Food is good or bad. It is healthy or unhealthy because it affects us much more than in just today than just the number we're seeing on the scale.
It affects us way more than that. I've had this episode pent up in me for a long time. It feels like, and I hope, you know, That [00:12:00] as the tough love mom, I'm saying all of this so straightforward because I care about your wellbeing and we know tough love means that you care enough about someone that you are going to shoot straight and not beat around the Bush.
And that's what I'm here for. I would not be doing my job living fully in the calling. God has put on my life. If I did not bring this to you honestly. And that's why, that's why I did it. This again is my opinion. It is not medical advice. It is not like the gospel, but it is absolutely something that. It is something I will stand by that.
Yeah, there are good foods and there are bad foods and we have to, we have to embrace that and live in that reality because it's not about us. Ultimately. It's not about how we feel. It's not about what we want or don't want it's about so much more than just a. And ultimately what we're doing day to day sets the example and the tone and the habits for our kids.
And I don't know about you, but I want mine. I want the last decade of my kid's life [00:13:00] to be full of vitality and memories, even though I won't be here for it, God willing, I want their last decade to be full of life. And so I'm going to start sending that example now by yes. Choosing more often the good, the healthy than the bad in the.
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