Food Anxiety

    For upwards of the last 8 years, I have struggled with what I'm going to call 'food anxiety ' for lack of a better word. I have spent the majority of my working adult life taking salad with me to work for lunch because I stressed about not eating healthy enough. In my head, if it wasn't a salad. It wasn't healthy. For lunch anyway.

    I also have a salad every day because I am a creature of habit and routine. So buying salad ingredients for lunch every week is easy and predictable. It doesn’t require any thought or planning. There is no anxiety in the morning about what I will take for lunch because I already know what I will be taking. So the idea of changing things up wasn't something I wanted to do.

    Hubby and I have always tried to eat healthy enough; last year, he was tired of his weight and wanted to make some changes. With God, he went on an incredible weight loss journey, and in that process, I worked along side of him and started cooking healthier.

    One night a week or so ago, I was making supper and thinking about how healthy we really do eat these days. We eat a veggie omlette 5 out of 7 days of the week. I was eating a salad for lunch, and he had a chicken leg. That evening, I was pondering our eating habits while making chicken fajitas. I realized that 85-90% of our meals are homemade from scratch. Including a good combination of protein, veggies, some carbs and healthy fats. I am proud of the progress we have made with our food choices. Anyways, as I served supper that night, I realized that I was done with salad for work and would start bringing leftovers or something else entirely. I went to Pinterest for some inspiration. I landed on a variation of an adult Lunchable and all the different elements you might want in your lunch. Such as protein, cheese, something crunchy, fruit, etc. Part of the reason why I always ate salad was that I was afraid I wouldn't get enough veggies in me, but I'm still getting enough and am enjoying packing the different 'elements' to an adult lunchable. We have also always been bad for lefovers being forgotten and going bad in the fridge, so this will also help with that.

    So, why am I sharing my change of lunch menu choices with you? Well, honestly, partly because one of my goals this year is to write a blog post every week. I’m a little behind now. The last few weeks have been a bit busy. I wanted this post to be published for the last week of April, but that didn’t work. God has been working on some big things with me recently, but I haven’t written about them yet. So yes, this post is partly a “filler” post. But maybe there is someone out there who has had a similar food struggle as I have had and will find encouragement from it. Either way, I decided I wanted to share with you my recent dietary changes.

I pray this encourages, blesses, or challenges you, friend.

God Bless

~Hannah