I Read Every Ingredient. I Still Ate It.

I used to stand in the grocery aisle, phone in hand, searching every dye and number on the label. I told myself it was about health, about being informed. But really, it was about control—about feeling like I could outsmart the things that scared me. Even when the news said dyes were being banned, I felt a strange emptiness. Like I’d lost another excuse to be afraid of food. I still read the labels. I still hesitate before every bite, waiting for the guilt to pass. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever eat without checking, calculating, or second-guessing. Or if the real poison was never in the food, but in the fear I swallowed with it. #Health #Diet #FoodGuilt