Here's a great thing about eating food that makes you feel good

Oooh, I like her.

She's like the Bart Simpson of food!

If it feels good, eat it!

I love that! So sensible.

Hmmm. I don't know. I like it in theory. I love the message. But I think she's coming at it from a fairly distinct perspective (nutritionist, highly attentive to effects of different foods) and also making the word "want" do some somersaults to make it work.

She says this:

And I can only figure that when I say, “Eat food. Stuff you like. As much as you want,” what people actually hear is:

“Eat food that makes you feel like crap, in crappy amounts

And I agree that it's kind of skewed. But I have trouble squaring this:

I eat, without reservation, basically whatever I want.

I like the taste of Coca-Cola a lot. But it also makes me feel thirsty and a little weird sometimes, so I drink it occasionally, along with food, and often along with plain water and lots of ice.

That's not "without reservation" by any definition that makes sense to me. It's with a perfectly reasonable reservation, and one that may in fact make you happier in the long run.

I think the way Jesse described it (eat food that makes you feel good) makes a lot more sense than the kind of awkward framing from the post.

Well, it seemed sensible for me, is what I mean.

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That's not "without reservation" by any definition that makes sense to me.

I took it to mean she had no reservations about eating any one particular food -- she's not attaching any moral value to Coca-Cola, for example. But she also knows not to drink too much of it, or she feels crappy.

And I think that's the leap she's asking the reader to take: Think about what it would feel like to eat cake all day. You would probably feel awful. Chances are you probably won't do that, therefore.

I took it to mean she had no reservations about eating any one particular food -- she's not attaching any moral value to Coca-Cola, for example. But she also knows not to drink too much of it, or she feels crappy.

This is what I understood as well.

ALLYSON! I fell down my stairs! It was awesome! Well, okay. Not really, but for some reason, I still think it was hilarious.

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ALLYSON! I fell down my stairs! It was awesome! Well, okay. Not really, but for some reason, I still think it was hilarious.

Did you hear Benny Hill-like kazoos in the backgroud, because that might explain that.

I took it to mean she had no reservations about eating any one particular food -- she's not attaching any moral value to Coca-Cola, for example. But she also knows not to drink too much of it, or she feels crappy.

Yeah. But "want" is still doing a lot of heavy lifting in framing that as "as much as I want", and "without reservation".

I think it set my back up because, the way I read it, I see her being in a place that actually takes a ton of thought and attentiveness to get to and saying "but why not just do it this way?" like it's just that easy. Do you see what I mean? I know I'm bringing my own issues to it, obviously. But I suspect I'm a lot closer to the mean than she is, and I'm nowhere near the "but I'd eat cake all day!" place.