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COUNTING DOWN THE COMMITMENTS
We Should Meet to Eat
Because we’re designed to be better together
This is the third of a series.
3. Choose company over solitude when eating — make eating a social — not solitary — experience. That means actual people, not devices.
I eat most of my weekday lunches and many of my other meals alone out of habit and preference. I do eat dinner with my husband most nights; he’s the cook in our family and I’m grateful for him and his delicious meals.
Still, at least once a day, on most days, I have an opportunity to include someone in the social activity of eating. I usually don’t, for reasons that go far and deep.
I know what I was trying to fix when I wrote this commitment, but that doesn’t make it easy to do. In fact, with nearly a quarter of 2020 behind us, I’m finding that putting any of these health commitments into practice isn’t happening as smoothly as I’d hoped, nor is it having the impact I wanted. I said I wanted to feel healthier, and I do a bit. But, to be honest, I would have liked some weight loss and that hasn’t happened at all.
I don’t read “diet” articles anymore, understanding that diets don’t work and weight loss really isn’t a valid metric for what, why, and when you eat. At the…
