I’ve thought a lot about food in the past few months since I set out on this dual quest for weight loss and a healthier body. The two are not necessarily compatible if you spend any time online. There are SO many “quick and easy” weight-loss plans. Far too many supplements. Lots and lots of misguided advice.
I’ve concluded that very few people are willing to do what it takes to actually have a healthy diet that sustains and strengthens them. That’s not a judgement, just a fact. The proof is in the menus of popular fast-food restaurants and the proliferation of products that are “edible”, but barely qualify as “food”.
Many people cook and eat for entertainment, not nourishment.
Most people are apt to feed their own children the same foods they ate as children, thus passing on the same bad habits and health risks they’re now struggling to change.
The sin of gluttony doesn’t just refer to eating large quantities of food, but also to the excessive desire for food that leads to eating the wrong things at the wrong time and for the wrong reason.
Most of us are ignorant of what our bodies need for optimum health. As a society, we seem to care more about our pet’s nutritional needs than our own.
Human’s are addicted to sugar. It’s the “acceptable” drug, in spite of its harmful effects.
I’m not offering advice. I’m still working on my own diet flaws. I’m reading, reading, reading. Thinking. Tasting. Experimenting. Eliminating some foods and restricting others.
We only get one body and it has to last a while. I’m sorry that I didn’t realize how fragile mine was until I began to reap the consequences of my earlier neglect of it. Trying to take much better care of it now.