Joel and I have been together for about a year and a half now. In case I haven’t said it before, he’s an awesome boyfriend, and has been a hugely positive influence on my relationship with food. Before we were together, I pretty much lived on oatmeal and salads. It was not uncommon for me to do something like eat half a pound of steamed asparagus with lemon juice for dinner and “save” my calories to attack a pan of gluten-free brownies later.
Even on nights when I’m eating dinner for one, I try to eat a regular sized dinner … and still eat dessert, if I want one. Here are some recent solo meals …
Last week, I met up with my sister for a prescreening of the movie The Five Year Engagement. I didn’t have much time to eat, and I thought about just getting a huge bag of popcorn to eat during the movie. But instead I had this Nicoise salad at the Nordstrom Cafe, and some M&Ms during the movie.
And over the weekend, Joel went out to Eastern Washington to visit his parents. I stayed home to study for my licensing exam, and when I didn’t feel like cooking, I picked up some take-out Thai food and braised a head of broccoli to go with it, and afterwards, took myself out for fro-yo.
I’ve always meant to talk more on my blog about intuitive eating and my relationship with food, but as more of you started reading, it became scarier to talk about. Let me be upfront here: I am very much a work in progress. There are days when I eat jelly beans for breakfast and tortilla chips for lunch. But there are also days when I choose to eat a real dinner, and eat it before I eat dessert. It’s a small step, but it’s something.
those both sound incredible… that last one especially! I don’t make very formal meals either, most of them are throw together but I try to keep them healthy… since I only cook for me! I’m sure someday I’ll have to make more of a process out of it but these days, this method works for me.
Ditto to the above comment – look delicious! I’m trying to break out of my food rut and did it this weekend, when I ate away from home the entire weekend for the first time since disocovering that I had to be gluten-free!
Well I think you KNOW I can relate to that – and also (awesomely!) the part about the BF being such a positive influence. I used to treat my ex bf’s nights out as an excuse to eat nothing a but carton of fro yo for dinner. Now, even when I think ‘I havent eaten junk food in forever – i’ll treat myself when Louis goes out’ the idea isnt even that appealing anymore.
ButI’m the same about being a work in progress… As my blog gets a bit less formal I’ve realised how fun it is to share bits of my every day life (now that Ive accepted that you know – my blog isnt going to turn me into a world famous nutritionist 🙂 ) It’s good to let people know that sometimes if, hypothetically, I discover a new sweet potato tortilla chip that is AMAZING I might have 4 servings and an apple and call it lunch. We ALL do it sometimes!!