So, here we are again. I am not sure of how much more I can blog about, before I really start to sound like a health nut over here. I assure you though, I am NOT a health nut I struggle right along with everyone else, however when one looks in my shopping cart at the grocery store, then they may think otherwise.
I have come to that point where this will be my last and final blog on nutrition. (unless I come across anything so crazy and neat and nutritious that I must tell you about!!) I will move on to....... well I'm not sure, I guess more mommy things.
I do hope that you take, what little wisdom I shared, with you throughout each meal. There are no magic words. There is no counting points. There is no counting calories. It isn't about having a frozen dinner for lunch and then a salad for supper. It isn't about starving yourself to get into that size 7. It isn't even about losing weight. (this is an added bonus to what you are doing) It is, however, about counting the good, and always making sure it outweighs the bad. It is about counting the nutrients, and always making sure it is more than the junk. It is about always drinking enough water in a day to wash out the bad toxins your body is holding on too. It is very much about portion control. Your stomach should be as big as your fist, so don't eat a whole cake and expect that to go well. Put in good and get good out...... good energy, good attitude, good weight, good skin, good hair, good teeth. Everyday isn't going to be sunshine and rainbows; but let me tell you, I am having a lot more sunshine than I use to, and that's good enough for me.
I crave foods with the rest of you, but it is so much easier now to fight it. When my body isn't use to getting that sugar, or greasy fatty food, then it makes it so much easier to say, " no". Also knowing what all that grease is going to do to you helps me say, "no" as well.
I cannot say it enough, KNOW YOUR FOODS!! Know what is in them, everything down to the spices. What is it going to do for you.......... How is it going to help your body function? What part of your body is it going to help function?? What do you need to eat more of in order to solve the way you are feeling?? Is what your eating going to benefit you in some way? If the answer to this question is "it isn't" then don't eat it...
There are so many great cookbooks out there. Do some research and find one that works for you. Want to get more veggies in your diet but you really don't like the whole idea of eating them??? Well I have a son just like you. His speech was delayed, and he just wasn't where he should have been for his age. I was the mother who had no idea what her kid was saying. I mean really, you have to know how frustrating that is. As a mother, watching your son get angry because he knows what he is saying why don't you??!!!
I took notice to what he was eating and there were weeks that went by that he wouldn't touch a single vegetable or fruit on his plate. I searched out the cookbook called, "Deceptively Delicious." Each recipe has pureed vegetables or fruit in it. My son ate them up. He didn't even know what was in it. It was about a month into this "experiment" other people started to understand my son. As a mother that is huge. He still isn't where he should be but he is making great progress.
These foods where put here for us from the beginning of time. They are what was intended for us to eat. If God had intended for us to eat nothing but hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and chilly cheese fries, then I really think that those foods would one, not give us bad things like, heart burn, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and clog our arteries, and two, I think that they would have been included in that Garden.
So please, eat as "natural" as you can afford, I know it is costly, but make cuts in other places. I have three kids with one income and we homeschool. One, now maybe two, of my kids need medicine and see a specialist on a regular basis. You don't have to tell me about being broke. I am, however, very important in my kids eyes, and here lately, I have become very important in my own eyes as well. I will not neglect my body and buy the best laundry detergent out there because it makes lots of bubbles and my clothes always smell fresh (which might I add, use to be on the top of my list) Instead I save money by making my own laundry detergent. It doesn't make a lot of bubbles and it isn't as fresh as Gain, but I have a 5 gallon bucket of laundry detergent that cost me $20.00 to make and will last me for 9 months.
We are all here for a reason, a purpose if you will. If you neglect your body and it's needs, how will you ever complete that purpose? Your life is a gift. A gift that can be taken way at any given moment, due to wrong choices. There are choices like, getting into your car and going to town at the wrong time. Or choices like eating a deep fried stick of butter vs. eating a meal packed full of everything your body needs. Some choices we have no understanding on how it will all end......but others we do......please make the right choice....you won't regret it....
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