I'll be honest, I don't really eat Cheetos anymore. It's not that I don't like them, but I no longer over-exercise, and they're just not what I typically crave as my indulgence. But I'm glad that I got out of that trap of needing to workout in order to burn off what I ate the day before -- that's an awful cycle to be in. Now, I move my body because I feel like it, and while I don't eat everything that I sometimes want to, I found another secret of being a balanced eater: I don't find my joy in my food.
Not that I don't believe that food is something that is meant to be enjoyed and appreciated--I do. But people who are able to say "no" or, as my twin sister and I did when my dad was pouring us milk as kids -- "when" -- know that happiness will never be sitting there waiting at the bottom of an empty ice cream container. And that's the real thing to address: is food something that we are enjoying, or has it become a frenemy?
After a long time of being outright enemies, and then frenemies, I made peace with my diet; my diet that I can't outrun or out-lift or out-Pilates. Sometimes the simplest answer is the one that works. For me, this was true. Food will always be there tomorrow. So will second chances. So today was a day of choices you wish you hadn't made? The great thing about life is that each day is a new beginning; every day is an opportunity to become a new "best.
The problems that I carried inside moved with me to New Mexico. I had to address them there, unless I wanted them to move with me again, when we got married and moved to Pennsylvania. Eating too much, running too much, drinking too much: these are all covers for what is going on underneath our surfaces. Self-discovery isn't always fun -- it's not always pretty and easy to deal with -- but it's necessary, if we want to ultimately like ourselves.
I reached a point in my life years ago, where I got tired of hating myself and tired of having a bad relationship with food -- so I said "when. The funny thing is that when I stopped fighting, my relationship with food healed almost naturally -- that's why having "scary" treats around the house helped: food wasn't actually my enemy, I was.
My heaviest weight at the end of my final year of high school. About lbs. Having been both obese and anorexic and , I know what it takes to really have a healthy relationship with food.
Observing the people around me though, would lead me to believe that not many people actually possess a healthy relationship with their food. Full blown anorexic, abusing laxatives daily, never ate before dark, only drank coffee during the day. Still struggling to get a healthy relationship with food. I often starved myself all day and then overindulged at night. Based on these parameters, I can come to the conclusion that pretty much everyone I know in real life and on the interwebs has an eating disorder.
This all turns into unhealthy relationships with our food and ourselves. Truly the only way to have a healthy relationship with our bodies and our foods is to commit to our own goals and live in the present moment.
Commit to goals for yourself, be it a physical goal or a mental goal, both are of utmost importance. Or just accept the fact that the path is a meandering one and not a straight-away. Achieving simple goals on the way to bigger ones gives you a more optimistic view of life. Did I have a healthy relationship with food here? My own personal beliefs and goals get me through life, they make my marriage amazing, they make my relationships with my kids a wonderful thing and the positivity flows because of it.
Being okay with the fact that nobody is perfect, including yourself, is a great achievement. The major reason I wrote this post was because of this image I posted on my social media over the weekend:. Some people chose to get rather heated in their comments because this was a picture of a doughnut that contained sugar, flour, gluten and many other horrible poisons!
Mostly, that people are judgemental, critical and hurtful when behind the keyboard and monitor. You see, that would never happen in real life! I think we all know that it comes down to what can only be called, the human condition. Some people thrive on negativity, or have no self-control and choose to blame others for their shortcomings. Every one of us is different. There are no right ways for us to live, eat, run, walk, shit, party, raise children, garden, mow our lawns, drive our cars, vote, buy groceries, exercise, talk, move, etc.
Can we all just take a second and remember where the name of this blog came from… Guilty Kitchen. I became anorexic, abused laxatives, over-exercised and underate, drank only coffee before dark, drank too much booze, gained weight over and over and then finally learned what it means to be healthy. I love my body, my strength, my curves.
I love eating fresh local produce and fruits, grass fed meats and pastured chickens, but I also love doughnuts and cake and pie and cheese and cream and butter. I strive to have balance in my life and I hope that you do as well. If we all just spent a little more time trying to balance our own lives and cared less about what others were doing in theirs, I think we would all have a much healthier, happier life.
Setting goals around your food, health or fitness will help you determine what, when, how and what you need to eat and what you need to do to achieve your fitness or health goals. Want to be a marathoner? Want to be the next strongwoman? Want to lose weight but are not sure how? Look up local dieticians, doctors or coaches in your area who have viewpoints similar to your own.
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