People often ask me for meal and snack ideas.  "Tell me what to eat!" they might desperately say, or, "Do you have any ideas?  I just don't know what to eat anymore."  

I'm reminded of the quote from the great Jewish philosopher and physician Maimonides

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Telling clients what to eat is usually counter-productive because 1) at the end of the day they need to figure out what and how to feed themselves, 2) the skill of planning and preparing satisfying food is a key part of recovery, 3) what I suggest might not even be something they like or are ready to eat, 4) there's less personal investment and buy in on the client's part if I do the work for them.  

So while I won't tell you what to eat, here are some examples of what I will teach you:

• What normal eating looks like
• What your body needs nutritionally
• Assistance with brainstorming ideas for meals and snacks
• Resources for recipes and ideas
• Suggestions for types of convenience food that make eating quicker and easier
• How to plan a week's worth of menus and create a grocery list from that
• The skill of food budgeting

YOU are ultimately the only one who can decide what you eat.