🟣 "Don't eat that..." (a generational story)

Well if it isn't my saucy little cinnamon roll! 🧁

Ever catch yourself saying something about food and think "bloody hell, I sound just like my nan"?

Those little phrases that get passed down through families like recipe cards:

🗣️ "A moment on the lips..."

🗣️ "Should you be eating that?"

🗣️ "No carbs after 6pm!"

But here's the thing...

Your nan wasn't trying to mess you up.

Your mum wasn't trying to give you food guilt.

Your aunt wasn't trying to make you fear bread.

They were just sharing what everyone "knew" to be true at the time.

The 80s? Magazines were screaming that fat was the enemy.

So eggs, butter, and cheese were all off the menu (how depressing). 

The 90s? Carbs were suddenly public enemy number one.

So your aunt binned all the bread and lived on eggs and determination.

The 2000s? It was all about eating like a caveman.

Because obviously our ancestors had access to £15 bags of fucking coconut flour.

Just think about what each generation had to work with:

Celebrity diet books that belonged in the fiction section.

Government guidelines that changed more often than I change my bedsheets.

Women's magazines sharing utter nonsense about nutrition. 

When you think about it…

Everyone was just doing their best with information that was about as reliable as a marzipan dildo. 

The amount of incredible women I work with at Team Henley who start our chats with:

"I grew up being told..."

"We always believed..."

"In our house, it was a rule..."

And every single time, these "rules" were just the diet culture of the day dressed up as facts.

See, the people who passed these rules down to us weren't wrong.

They weren't trying to cause harm.

They were sharing what they thought would help.

But now we know better.

And that's proper exciting when you think about it.

Because you get to be the one who changes the story.

You get to be the one who breaks free from decades of diet nonsense.

You get to be the one who shows the next generation what a healthy relationship with food actually looks like.

Not through restriction.

Not through guilt.

Not through rules made up by some magazine in 1987.

But through balance, strength, and the occasional slice of cake just because it's Tuesday.

Ready to write a new chapter?

>>> Join Team Henley

Let's write some new family traditions.

Big love,

Rachel 🥰