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I Memorized Every Nutrient. I Forgot How to Eat

Spring vegetables became my scripture. I could recite asparagus's vitamin K content, peas' fiber grams, radishes' antioxidant profiles. My cart looked like a nutritionist's wet dream. But I'd stand in my kitchen, surrounded by perfect produce, paralyzed. Was the spinach organic enough? Did I need exactly 1.2 cups of broccoli for optimal sulforaphane? I'd prep elaborate meals, photograph them, then eat three bites before anxiety took over. My body knew things my brain had forgotten. It knew when it was tired, when it craved warmth instead of raw perfection, when it needed comfort over vitamins. But I'd trained myself to ignore those signals, to trust charts over intuition. The irony wasn't lost on me. I'd become malnourished on the healthiest foods on earth. #CleanEatingTrap #OrthorexiaRecovery #ControlIsExhausting #Health #Diet