“Do you actually enjoy these flourless spinach-pancakes you made for our Sunday brunch?”, Shaun said to me with a cheeky smirk. “If you enjoy them that’s great, I’m just making sure you actually prefer them over real pancakes.” I shrugged my shoulders and said: “Babe, I’m not on a diet. This is a lifestyle! I actually don’t mind these and they’re healthy”, as I kept choking them down on a Sunday morning back in 2016. When I tasted real pancakes for the first time[...]
“Deprivation (noun): the lack or denial of something considered to be a necessity.” Deprivation gets glorified, especially for us women.Whether that is depriving ourselves of food, depriving ourselves of other basic self-care needs or even depriving ourselves of our wildest dreams in life, so that we can take care of everybody else’s needs first. Have you ever thought about that? In this article, I want to dive a little bit deeper and explain: - How food deprivation harms our bo[...]