When Oreo Cookie Pizzas Are Healthy

“Healthier” is more important than “healthy.”

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I saw a tweet the other day that irritated me.

It shared an Instagram post of a high-protein Oreo cookie Pizza and said:

“The state of Flexible Dieting Instagram. Disgusting. Eat a piece of chicken.”

Do I suggest having Oreo Protein Pizzas as a regular staple in your diet?

No.

But after seeing this tweet, I felt called to defend Flexible Dieting because it can be a liberating and life-changing dietary shift for many.

In this post, I’m going to discuss the following:

• What “flexible dieting” is
• Why critiques like this tweet are naive and potentially harmful
• How flexible dieting can help people
• A better definition of a “healthy” diet

Flexible dieting often gets misrepresented as a way to fit as much junk food as you can into your diet.

But that’s not how I look at it.

I see flexible dieting as stripping away your narratives about “healthy” and “unhealthy” food and looking at food objectively.