The Surprising thing I Learnt from Eating Peanut Butter & Jam on Toast.
This was a Guest Post by Lara Zibarras on Elephant Journal
Once upon a time, I was scared of food. Like actually scared of it.
Food thoughts consumed every waking moment: Is this bad for me? Does it have too much sugar? Have I eaten too many carbs today?
I would look enviably at other women who could eat dessert without a dollop of guilt on the side. How could they? Because if I spent too much time around the snack table, I would go wild.
Eating, for me, was a pendulum swinging where I was either full-on restricting food and trying to limit what I ate or bingeing on everything in sight…