I was talking to a client recently about passing up the breadbasket when she is eating dinner at a restaurant. She said to me, “I just want to be able to eat like normal people.” This really got me thinking.
What is normal anyway?
Why is bread with dinner normal? Someone, at some point decided that. Same with lots of other things. Why are eggs and bacon for breakfast, who decided that? What about breakfast cereal. I am almost positive that someone didn’t discover that this was nutritionally the best way to start our day. I’m pretty sure the food manufacturers decided that for us.
One time a client was so worried about the wedding she was going to and how she would feel “so weird” if she didn’t eat the cake. We spent a while talking about this. I don’t think anyone cared a bit that she did not partake of the cake.
People used to smoke a lot. They smoked at work and on airplanes and in restaurants. That was very normal then. I wonder what we are doing now that we will look back on and say, “How strange, that used to be normal”?
It’s normal to get huge amounts of food in a restaurant. Dessert after the meal is normal. Eating things that you have to unwrap is normal. Cheese that is in a block and sits on the shelf for a year is normal.
It’s normal now to be overweight.
Do you wish you could eat or be normal? Please don’t wish this. Question what is normal.
