Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

You’re Not Broken—Your Food Might Be 🍽️

29 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this conversational video, Mona Sharma and a co‑speaker discuss how self‑care truly starts in the kitchen. They emphasize building a plate that is primarily plant‑focused while still including high‑quality protein and healthy fats such as olive oil, coconut oil, nuts, seeds, and avocado. The dialogue highlights the role of fiber—found in plant foods—in flushing toxins and supporting regular bowel movements. Sharma points out cultural conditioning that has long positioned meat as the central component of meals, describing meat‑like products as a "condimeat" side dish rather than the main focus. The conversation concludes that re‑learning how to eat this way requires breaking old habits and readjusting one’s mindset toward a more balanced, plant‑centric diet.

I always say self care starts in the kitchen.
Self care starts in the kitchen. I love that.
When you look down at your plate, you want to make sure you see that it's plant focused and then you want to have a good quality protein and a really good quality fat. So this is things like olive oil, coconut oil, nuts, seeds, avocado. When you have that good balance one, you've got the fiber. Fiber flushes toxins from our body. It helps with bowel movements. There used to be this conditioning from society. We thought that most of our plate had to be meat, right?
A side dish.
It's a side dish, right? You call it a condimeat, right.
Kind of meat.
That shouldn't be the main focus and it's almost like a readjusting, right. Once you learn how to eat differently, you get accustomed to eating that way, right? It's breaking the habit.
I.