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!