Loving Your Life Means Loving Your Food
This is a guest post.
Life is a wonderful journey that is meant to be enjoyed. Food plays a big part in the enjoyment of life: from eating for pleasure, to fueling your body with energy to partake in fun activities.
Food is one of Life’s Pleasures
Many of us, myself included, enjoy eating things that taste good. Flavor, texture, and even memories impact how much we enjoy eating certain foods.
Remember eating watermelon with your family on that hot summer day, sweetness dripping from your chin?
That’s pleasure.
Every time you bite into a slice of watermelon you’ll be reminded of life’s great joys.
Sometimes though, we can get a little too attached to certain foods that aren’t serving us. Eating too many processed foods can lead us to develop degenerative diseases, and drain our energy.
In the end, we cannot let our taste buds rule us entirely, or we’d be eating nothing but chips, steak, and ice cream. Those that profess choosing early death (via heart attack) over eating bland food are often startled to learn that they could end up suffering for many years with a degenerative disease instead.
How to Love Food (Even the Healthy Stuff)
Fear not, there is a way to enjoy food that is healthy! It all comes back to basics, and eating the way nature intended us to. Lots of fresh raw fruits and vegetables pack a ton of flavor!
Making dietary changes to improve your health and energy levels isn’t as daunting as it seems. It’s all about taking baby steps, and choosing recipes and foods that you will enjoy.
Take for example the idea of green smoothies. Everyone knows that we should be eating more fruits and vegetables, but it’s hard enough to get out the door on time every morning without worrying about our daily intake.
With green smoothies you can throw some fruit and leafy greens into your blender, hit the button, and have a delicious drink that is insanely nutritious and healing. A basic recipe is made up of 60% fruit, and 40% green leafy vegetables.
You won’t even taste the greens, and you will be getting tons of fiber and minerals all in one easy to consume drink.
Make Eating Healthy Fun
If eating healthy isn’t fun for you, then you’re doing something wrong. Eating healthy has a learning curve, but it doesn’t need to be boring (like carrot and celery sticks!).
Although you can certainly lose weight with raw food, it is important to focus on the journey and not just the end result. That’s also why I’m not an advocate of a 100% raw food diet, since it can lead to too much pressure and become unhealthy emotionally.
Remember that you need to enjoy your whole life, not just the next few years. So choosing to invest in your health will actually pay back in spades over time.
Written by Nathalie Lussier
Nathalie Lussier is known as The Raw Foods Witch, because she takes the spookiness out of Raw Food so you experience the Magick. Learn the 5 Witchy Ways to Eat More Veggies by signing up to The Cue and you’ll also get the Feel Light – Take Flight ecourse that makes eating healthy FUN!
Article photo by D’Arcy Norman
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Great food is everything.
I have found that when you eat a regular diet of unhealthy food (processed foods, too much meat, fats, junk food) you don’t even notice what it is doing to your energy levels and general health.
Now that I have largely cut out meat and eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, even a little junk food wrecks havoc on my body. Over indulging in unhealthy food can leave me feeling heavy and sluggish for a couple of days. It really destroys my energy levels, not to mention what it does to my skin.
I can feel in my body when I have had too much fatty foods. The sad thing is that so many people live their whole lives with that heavy, lazy feeling and they don’t even know there is another way.
You’re so right John! Congratulations for eliminating these foods that make you feel sluggish. I’m the same way, if I do eat something too heavy or processed, I feel it right away.
Thanks for sharing your story, it always helps people to see how others have managed to change and how they feel now.
I know, I know eating right does make you feel great! But man that food that is bad for you just taste soo good, but the aftermath isn’t so great.
I know when I do eat well with veggies and fruit my body and my mind feels great! I just have to make eating well a habit.
I just feel so much better.
thanks for the insight!
You’re welcome Pedro, glad you liked the insights. You hit the nail on the head: food that is bad for you tastes good, but the aftermath isn’t so good. It’s just a matter of finding foods that are healthy and arranging them in a way that tastes great too.
Though it’s a tall order since most “bad foods” come with addictive substances that make you crave them.
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