Ella Mills

I think we're always confused by this space.

I feel stuck in an all or nothing cycle with food.

I try to eat perfectly, then overeat and feel guilt and frustration.

How can I build a more balanced, intuitive relationship with food?

It's really, really helpful.

And I think it's so important to food is so multifaceted.

Like it's how we celebrate, as we just said, Christmas or Easter or birthdays or big moments, weddings.

You know, it's like it's such a kind of societal, familial, cultural anchor.

And also it's for so many people also so important.

linked to emotion to stress and as you said to self-esteem and self-worth and how we feel in ourselves and so it's like it is such a complicated thing this relationship and it shows up so differently for everyone I think one thing I would say and and you know I really want you to take this in the right way but like the word perfect really important word to reevaluate maybe which is that like

No one can do anything perfectly in life.

And I think maybe you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself to eat perfectly.

And Rhi and I have talked about this a lot, which is that between ourselves, which is that this is a really difficult tension, actually, where...

And we're here every week telling you, please eat those polyphenols, please eat that fiber.

We do need to eat less UPFs.

And the reality is, is all of that holds true.

And it's easier said than done.

And it doesn't have to be 100% of the time.

And so it's this really tricky thing of like, yes, we need to collectively overhaul our diets.

And yes, we need to shift to a more kind of natural home coach, plant rich, Mediterranean inspired type way of eating, but it doesn't have to be quote unquote perfect.