Nutrition – Between Optimization and Stability

Nutrition was for a long time another project.

I have read.
Compared.
Changed.
Rejected again.

In times of uncertainty, food provides a feeling of control.
You can decide what goes in.
One can act "correctly".

But here too I had to learn:
Control is not the same as stability.

Rituals instead of rules

Today I have small rituals.

In the mornings, I often drink warm water with fresh lemon, ginger, and cinnamon.
Sometimes turmeric is added.

Not as a miracle cure.
But as a conscious beginning.

In the evening I occasionally drink golden milk.
Warm. Calm. A signal to the body:
The day is ending.

These things are not therapy.
They are framing.

I don't eat perfectly.

I categorically refuse to eat fast food.
I don't forbid myself anything fundamentally.

I noticed,
that extremes tend to stress my system
than to stabilize.

Strict rules create pressure.
Pressure activated.

Regularity is reassuring.

The following is important for my nervous system:

If my body is undernourished,
My system will be alerted faster.

This has nothing to do with discipline.
But with biology.

Nutrition is no longer an optimization project for me.

It is part of a stable framework.

Warm.
Regularly.
Unfussy.

And sometimes it's simply uncomplicated.