You’ve entered a pressure cooker
With COVID-19, everything about life at home is magnified — your good eating habits and your crappy ones. You may see yourself using food as an escape, a reward, or a stress-relief tool. You may see patterns of emotional eating or restricting yourself. You may find yourself over-eating, under-eating, or just not knowing what to eat. Your relationship with food will often mirror your relationship to life. And let’s face it, life right now is strange and stressful. It’s natural, your eating will be too. Stop punishing yourself for what you ate or didn’t eat yesterday. Let go of the expectations you had about food pre-COVID-19. Your body knows that something is different now. Your nervous systems can feel the...