How to get Ultra-Processed Foods Out of your Life

Hint: It’s a physical demonstration of self-care

It’s Monday morning, the start of a new week. You glance at the clock, you have one hour to get dressed, grab breakfast, and get to work. You’re up for this; it’s your routine, and you’ve been at it for a few years. Since the pandemic is over, you no longer work remotely, so you’re going into your office. The traffic, as expected, is annoying, but you’ve got this figured out too because your first stop before jumping on the freeway is to stop at the drive-through coffee shop for your first cuppa of the day, and since you’re a healthy eater, a cuppa oatmeal too. Now you’re set for the morning crawl. You switch on the news radio because you don’t want to be the one in the office that doesn’t know what’s going on, but as you adjust the radio, you spill your coffee, not on you, but all over the passenger seat, ughh. Then as if that’s not enough, your phone rings just as you’re spooning the food. It’s your bestie, and you want to get in a “good morning;” you push the answer button while simultaneously trying to get a mouthful of oatmeal, but the spoon misses your mouth and drips down your shirt. Great! What else can happen?

What if you could rewind and return to the weekend before this miserable Monday started? What if you wake up on Saturday and, after a leisurely breakfast, you walk over…