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Life Treasure Hunt
If you think about food often, is that what you treasure?
Bible – Matt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Where your pleasure is, there is your Treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
Why do we eat? If food is plentiful eating for the pure pleasure of taste seems to be the norm. If you are an athlete eating for performance. If you are pregnant eating for the health of your baby or to satisfy a craving. Why should we eat? To only nourish our bodies…
Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better then we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent Van Gogh
Eating is more than food for the body we are all culturally connected to food. Hence, why are some foods called comfort foods, we are connected to our food more than for nutrition. It was quite a deep dive life treasure hunt this week for me to locate reasons other than for nutrition why people eat.
“Why do we have to listen to our heart?” the boy asked. “Because wherever your heart is, there is where you will find your treasure”.
Paulo Coelho
Self-Improvement
I enjoy a meal the most when it is with friends and family around a large table with good conversation. If I only eat one time a day this would be the time I would choose. So, I thought why not make meals more memorable. I set out to have planned meals with people I care about. I also, began intermittent fasting, not for days, but just eating less in the day; saving most of my intake for more important moments, when having a meal matters to me. If I got hungry before the main event, I only eat if my stomach makes too much acid or is growling a lot. I try to keep the meals before the main event snack size only apx 200 to 300 cals (I do not actually count it out with detail) with a protein and a fat to hold me over until the main event. My main meal is not a glutinous over load, but a meal that has color and variety and will sustain good health. I look for what food is most calorie dense, with the most nutrition. I often add chia seed, or flax seed or nutritional yeast to add to the nutrition and of course green vegetables where ever I can; often spinach is my go-to for green. I chose carefully the time and place I will eat. Cool thing is I am losing weight naturally and happily; not feeling like I am being punished while dieting any more.
Perspective Challenge
Consciously plan and make your personal best livable diet, that fits your bodies needs, your life and your culture. If your diet (the way you eat to be healthy) has in the past made you miserable, you are not on a positive path. Enjoy life! Eating is a necessary thing. The word, ‘DIET’ should not be a negative four-letter word. Do not waste your time always on a restrictive diet with all the “NO do not eat that” rules. Why let how you choose to eat feel like torture your whole life? Make how you eat fit into who you are and your culture. A book that helped free me and adapt this perspective was ‘Eat what you love, Love what you eat’ by Michelle May.
Resources for todays post:
The 1970 we ate on a schedule, listen to Dr. Jason Fung, he explains why Americans got fat in his presentation: to How to Lose Weight Automatically (3 Key Strategies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A33eMFcud04
Weight Loss Solution (Step by step) | Jason Fung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgmFEb0b0TI for his book with the “>click here
Ways to visualize calorie density https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/chr3GW
Per Wikipedia: The term comfort food has been traced back at least to 1966, when the Palm Beach Post used it in a story: “Adults, when under severe emotional stress, turn to what could be called ‘comfort food’—food associated with the security of childhood, like mother’s poached egg or famous chicken soup. In the Wikipedia psychological studies section it says: “Consuming energy-dense, high calorie, high fat, salt or sugar foods, such as ice cream, chocolate or french fries, may trigger the reward system in the human brain, which gives a distinctive pleasure or temporary sense of emotional elevation and relaxation.[5][6] When psychological conditions are present, people often use comfort food to treat themselves. Those with negative emotions tend to eat unhealthy food in an effort to experience the instant gratification that comes with it, even if only short-lived.”
Hidden significance of what we eat https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190222-the-hidden-significance-of-what-we-eat
What Is Food Culture And How Does It Impact Health? https://www.thewellessentials.com/blog/what-is-food-culture-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-our-health
What food tells us about culture by Chau B Le January 7, 2017 https://freelymagazine.com/2017/01/07/what-food-tells-us-about-culture/#:~:text=On%20a%20larger%20scale%2C%20food%20is%20an%20important%20part%20of%20culture.&text=It%20also%20operates%20as%20an,they%20move%20to%20new%20places.
The Factors That Influence Our Food Choices https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/the-determinants-of-food-choice
NOTE: May is Mental Health Awareness Month our mind can encounter issues just like our body gets sick check out this important link to learn more
