You Wrote The Book

Our sweet baby girl is already 5 months old. After some minor bumps (hello, thrush), we're into a groove with breastfeeding and are juuuuust starting solid foods (hello, avocado). I can't wait to see what foods she likes. 

This girl is so intuitive. She tells me exactly when she wants to eat, if she's had enough or if she needs more. She doesn't need to check and see what her siblings are doing. She doesn't care if she's following the get-your-baby-to-sleep-by-twelve-weeks-using-this-daily-formula plan. She just knows exactly how much and what she needs.

You know who else just knows what and how much food they need? You do. We're all born intuitive eaters and inevitably loose our footing somewhere along the way. Family, friends, a doctor, a teacher, a celebrity, or a book sends us off course. That's normal and not your fault since you live in a diet culture obsessed nation. Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch are the dietitians who developed the model of Intuitive Eating and wrote a book, but not your book. 

You get to take credit for your book. You own the rights to your own manuscript. You know what to do in the intro and the closing and you can dedicate the book to yourself. Because you're a damn good writer and you don't need anyone else to help you with chapter two or chapter twenty. Maybe you just need someone to remind you that you can and are still writing your own book. 

Keep writing this week. Even if you feel like you've gone off course, you lost the plot line, you don't like what the main character is doing right now. Announce today that you're making a plot change. It's never too late to change your story.

Babies everywhere are working their story. Chapter 1....."How I showed them that I can eat intuitively and remind the big people that they can do it, too."