Dear Rebecca,

I've followed you for a while and love your encouraging words and enthusiasm, but I miss your nutrition information! Can you bring that back?

Dear Valued Friend,

Thank you for your longtime support! I can't tell you how much it means to know that you find my post and content encouraging and notice my genuine enthusiasm for your good health. But you won't find detailed nutrition information that gets off in the weeds here on my feed anymore. Let me tell you why it's a NO for me.

I tried to combat fad diets and "gimmicky" nutrition info out there for years by pouring my heart into an "educational" post or video. I took great care in those details as if I was teaching nutrition to a dietetic major.

But, it dawned on me.

It wasn't working.

It was only adding to the confusion.

And, YOU ARE NOT A NUTRITION MAJOR,

And you DO NOT NEED A DEGREE IN NUTRITION to take control of your health.

The general public is educated well above their level of obedience when it comes to health and wellness. I promise you, more information is not the most significant problem when it comes to our declining health status, yet rising eating disorder rates.

Getting hyper-specific about things that don't matter takes the focus off factors that influence your health and happiness. SO much of the internet nutrition jibber-jabber is fighting over the <1% of food and nutrition science that matters, without giving the 99% of lifestyle factors that have value and meaning adequate attention.

Your "health" isn't where you'd like it to be because you can't name the essential amino acids or lack understanding of bioavailability of heme versus non-heme iron, or don't choose the wheat bread brand with the most fiber or protein-fortified pancakes.

Good Health - the kind that carries you through your decades with grace, enjoyment and allows you to thrive is NOT a series of simple choices or understanding complicated processes like the Kreb cycle.

Good Health - (the kind you want whether you realize it or not) considers an INDIVIDUAL'S lived experience, personal values, genetics, their current phase of life, past traumas, chronic diseases, food intolerances, and preferences, etc. But most importantly, the non-negotiables that bring them joy.

There are plenty of bad @$$ dietitians fighting the fit of detailed scientific information. But I've decided that detailed nutrition education will stay between my clients and their individual needs. If you need to know my broader food philosophy, I shared those in Mind Over Fork.

But I hope you stick with me here on the world wide web! Let me be the voice that challenges your mindsets, not your food choices, who wants you more focused on your "why" than your "how" and the one that will keep encouraging you to be in the driver seat of your life and health, and with great enthusiasm wants you to realize your self-worth and salvation have nothing to do with your food choices or ability to lose weight.

Love you, mean it.

RT

PS - this is me in my cluttered and disorganized office. one of the best things that have come out of hosting Good Things with Rebecca Turner radio show - is being reminded of ALL the amazing people and topics of interest that are out there, doing God's work, and bringing joy, that has ZERO to do with weight or wellness. It is SO refreshing to be reminded that there is a great big world out there that doesn't give a darn about the size of my thighs or how many vegetables I ate today.