How I Learned to Eat Less Bad

McKeany on his evolving relationship with food. Rather than chasing a perfect diet — keto, paleo, intermittent fasting, the next protocol — he describes the slow, unglamorous work of slightly improving each meal: a vegetable he didn't have before, a sugar he replaced, a portion he made smaller. The not-so-simple trick is giving up on "eating well" as a binary identity and embracing "eating less bad" as a long, forgiving project that compounds quietly over years, especially for someone navigating parenthood, work, and the energy his daughter's care requires.