My Fruitive Challenge: Day 97 — Orthorexics

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 I misplaced the my The Engine 2 Diet book. I couldn’t find it anywhere, so I looked to see if any audiobooks on hold came through for me. I started listening to Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, which led to a fun coincidence: Yesterday, during my conversation with the restaurant owners after church, the wife mentioned that she used to be 100% WFPB vegan but is now about 85%. She realized that she had become too judgmental of herself whenever she cheated a little on her diet and of others who weren’t eating healthy enough by her standards. 

She learned the word orthorexics—people who have an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. She decided she wanted to back down from that form of eating and thinking.

I asked her to repeat and spell that new word for me—orthopedics.

I agreed with her that there’s such a thing as taking dieting too far. 

Well, last night my jaw dropped when I heard Pollan say the same word, haha! I’m enjoying his perspective on the matter. I attached a couple pages of texts that rang true to me.



I finally found my E2 Diet book under a bunch of kids’ papers and library books. I appreciate what I read today from Esselstyn that echo Pollan’s thoughts. More on that later.

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