I’ve wanted a healthier ‘relationship with food’ for a while. This is me finally doing something about it.
Firstly, I suppose a part of me is writing this as a means to keep myself accountable at every step of this journey – which bodes well, surely. As of today, I am setting out to live the next 90-days on a vegetarian diet. Honestly, I’m not expecting this to be too drastic a change as I don’t consume much meat as it is. Though I do have chicken or sausage at least once a month, which I hope to change over the next three months.
More than that, I hope to learn. I am challenging myself to engage meaningfully in changing my relationship and attitude towards food. I hope to do this by more than just paying attention to which food stuffs I ought to eliminate from my diet. I plan to meditate on the progress of my 90-day vegetarian journey in a brief daily blog entry. During this time, I expect to contemplate questions like; what is a relationship with food, how can an unhealthy one be repaired, what is the influence of poverty on the relationship that poor South Africans have with food?
This is the first entry of this series – an introduction. I’m going to set the tone of the blog series by keeping this entry brief. Here’s to changing unsustainable eating habits and cultivating a healthier attitude towards food!
– Lele M
Lele Muthali 