Salad Culture

I will never understand "salad culture" and why women specifically feel like other women eat salad and only salad. Let me tell you why I'm writing about this particular topic today of all days. We had a meeting with some folks from off campus and they decided to serve us salad. SALAD. I haven't had salad as a meal in months. Not to mention the way to loose weight is not to eat salad, for me at least. After I ate my salad, which had cheese and dressing ( :\ ) I had trail mix, bad choice folks. I'm not meant to eat that stuff, it is not Paleo.  Not to mention I ate "lunch" at 12ish and it's 3:15 and I'm hungry. Again. Why? because salad cannot sustain me. I find it so interesting that culture that involves women, is surrounded by salad and being good or bad.

The good/bad debate came up yesterday and I realized E and I were talking about being good vs. bad and this is language I've only heard women use. Food is so gendered and what you should/shouldn't/can/can't eat is very much tied to how you are socialized to view food and your body. So here I sit, waiting to go into a meeting, on my phone, thinking "God, I'm hungry" because I didn't loose 10 lbs by eating salad, that approach has never worked for me. Fitting into this dress did not happen by eating salad. Eating good fat, got rid of the excess fat, eating whole foods got rid of excess, eating lean meat and enjoying full fats got me here. So I'm now contemplating how we get anywhere and how we perceive our good/badness and how men don't really focus on what their eating as much as women do and I don't believe, and please correct me if I'm wrong, men don't use the good/bad language. (I don't hang out with many men out here in Southern California so I don't know). 

It's a mental shift when it comes to talking about food and how I eat because truth is I eat better than most. Except today, today I had a set back for sure but I'll pay for it later I'm sure. 

Thanks for reading!