02/08/2022
When someone justifies their diet or restrictive eating habits by claiming it's a lifestyle 🙄
Disclaimer: I did this for years. First with no refined sugar, then with veganism, then with "clean eating" and eliminating processed foods.
It's not a lifestyle, Karen. It's called restrictive eating.
Obsessively checking food labels to see how much sugar is in something.
Scanning ingredient lists to check for preservatives or "hidden ingredients".
Drinking only water because liquid calories are the devil.
Turning your nose up to anything that comes in a package.
Shopping only the perimeter of the store, because that's where the "real food" is (all food is real food, but whatever).
Denying yourself dessert because it's "empty calories".
..sorry to break it to you, but it's not a lifestyle.
IT'S RESTRICTION.
Stop glamourizing "clean eating". There's nothing glamourous about it.
In fact, it's a very exclusive "lifestyle" with barriers for many (financial, lack of access, time-consuming, etc). But that's a conversation for another day.