This week was a very unexpected interview with Angela Bicos Mavridis, the founder of TRIBALÍ foods. We started with Angela’s journey from living in Greece to moving to the US and becoming a vegetarian when she was 13, then starting to have some health issues later in life and transitioning to eating meat and even creating her own grass-fed, organic meats company.

But then, we moved on to talking a lot about food freedom and how to get out of the whole30 danger zone between whole30 season and margarita season, our thoughts on cheat meals, cheat days, and cheat weekends, and how those create guilt and shame before you even eat those cheat foods – and finally, how to listen to your body, and make foods not-so-forbidden when creating your own food freedom.

We also talked about:

How to learn to listen to your body at any stage in life, and accept what’s working for you right now might not work for you in the future.
Her advice to young vegetarians to make sure they’re getting a complete nutritional profile
The best thing anyone can do for themselves is to start on your health journey, on your n=1 experiment.
How to make foods not-so-forbidden
What Angela’s Food Freedom looks like now, and how she got there

**Food Freedom = finding foods that you enjoy that also serve you – that make you thrive, and then leaving room for indulgences and memories with food without losing control by making those foods not so forbidden.