Dr. Tabatha Barber says sustainable eating means giving yourself grace, not perfection. Skip the guilt over occasional treats like wine, cookies, or pie. Build them in and you'll actually stick with it.
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I also think there has to be grace in your diet. You know, grace and sustainability. That's another thing I think it's so important to teach. And just reminding women, you're not going to eat perfectly like every single day for the rest of your life. I mean, you just got to take that burden off yourself. I mean, nobody's— I don't eat perfectly. Nobody's going to eat perfectly. You just have to find a way of eating that's sustainable that, you know, sometimes we want to have a glass of wine with our girlfriends or we want to eat chocolate chip cookies with our kid or we want to go on vacation and splurge or have pie at Thanksgiving or whatever it is. And you got to build that into your diet and have grace. And so you're not feeling guilty every time you do that. And then, you know, like, ah, screwed up.