Notice how you feel like if you're ending up with sugar cravings, we might want to up our protein.

If you find that you are ravenous at night, we're probably under eating in the first half of the day.

The things that we often feel like are a moral failing are really just the body communicating with us.

Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about

progress made practical.

Early on in our marriage was when blogs birthed into the world.

I know how else to say that, but it was a big time for blogs and I was an avid blog reader.

It was my go-to way of spending my free time, connecting with other women, learning from their

stories, relating to them.

And it broadened so much of my worldview. One of the most popular trends during

this time were fitness blogs where women would share about the ways that they were exercising and

eating. And as someone who was in the trenches of recovering from eating disorders, that could have

potentially been really bad for me. Instead, reading these detailed blogs of what women were doing to exercise and even their food diaries on what they ate actually helped heal my relationship with food.

And that's because it finally taught me what it looks like to be eating enough.

You see, my entire life up into that point,

eating well meant eating next to nothing. We all lived that way in the 80s and 90s and early

aughts where I was about eat this, not that, and heavily on the not that. With so much restriction

in mind, it became really difficult to gauge what it looked like to be eating enough and properly so.

These blogs helped educate me on how to eat enough and in ways that were reflective of actual nutritional science, not fads.

I'm glad that over the last five or ten years, especially, we have shifted to urge women

to get stronger, to eat enough, and with that has come the encouragement to eat more of

certain types of nutrition and food like protein and fiber. And this is where I have to ask

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