Lori Harder recounts struggling with anxiety and depression from a young age and describes discovering that nutrition strongly influences mood. She introduces the idea of "eating my mood," criticizing monotonous "beige food" and framing food choices as shaping present and future emotional states.
I struggled with anxiety, struggled with depression at a young age. Mood, energy. I remember thinking, like, kids would want to go out and play, and I'm like, I don't want to at a young age. And as I got older and started learning more about nutrition, one of the things that I finally learned how to do was to look at food and be like, wait, I'm literally eating my mood. So when I look at a plate of. We call it beige food, my husband and I were like, oh, God, you go back to the Midwest and everything's beige because it's fried or French fries or whatever. What mood am I eating for tomorrow or today?
