I Ate Clean, But My Anxiety Didn’t

I thought eating more seafood was the healthy choice. Salmon, shrimp, tuna—lean protein, omega-3s, all the things I was supposed to want. I weighed every portion, swapped out red meat, even learned to like the taste of plain scallops. But then I read about these chemicals—PFAS, the kind that never leave your body. Suddenly, every bite felt like a gamble. I’d stare at my plate, trying to calculate risk, trying to remember if I’d already had shrimp this week. The numbers never matched the comfort I was chasing. I used to think control would make me feel safe. Now I just feel tired, and I still don’t trust my own hunger. #ControlIsExhausting #FoodGuilt #NotJustAboutTheScale #Health #Diet