This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 2463.

Do you have FOMO around food by Jill Coleman of JillFit.com?

And I'm Dr. Neal, your host and narrator.

Hey there, happy Sunday and welcome to Optimal Health Daily, or O HD,

where I read to you from some of the most popular health and fitness blogs online.

And with that, let's get

right to it as we optimize your life. Do You Have FOMO Around Food by Jill Coleman of Jillfit.com.

I have a clear memory of being five years old at my babysitter Mrs. Kelly's house,

and being given a dixie cup with cereal in it as my afternoon snack.

There were a few other kids my age who got the same,

and I honestly remember, even at that age,

looking at the other kids wondering if they felt as I did,

that this can't possibly be all we get. How are they not all still

starving? It's funny, when I started thinking about the topic of food anxiety, I noticed that my

entire life has been dotted with similar experiences. In high school, my best friend Sally and I were

going to the local 7-11leven and picking up candy,

only to backtrack and also get a salty snack because everyone knows you need to have the taste

of salt after a sweet. And then another sweet after salty, and back and forth, of course.

Because I would only choose candy items based on how long they took to eat, I would

never get Rees' cups because there are only two of them. How unsatisfying? And gone way too quickly.

After college, when I was teaching a bazillion fitness classes every week and doing two or more

hours of cardio a day, I exercised so that I could

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