Why is that we human beings - especially Americans - feel the need to stuff ourselves to the point of being sick? I love food... love, love, love food. I have my favorites and when I have a hankering for one of them I just don't know when to quit. I've actually made myself sick from eating so much and what's the point? The food tastes amazing going down and you're happy while you're eating it, but as soon as you stop you feel like crap. You feel like crap because you're overstuffed (never a pleasant feeling) and you feel like crap because you know this will lead to a couple more pounds that you're just going to have to do battle with in a couple of weeks, months, or years. Well I'm sick of feeling like crap.
My goal today is to eat when I'm hungry... and only when I'm hungry. To eat the best foods I can find for myself and to enjoy every single bite. It sounds so simple... but my crazy schedule, and working overnights at a gas station can very easily lead me to eat crap. Imagine... getting 3-6 hours of sleep a day and then going into work (from the hours of 10pm-5am usually) at a place that surrounds you with every possible junk food you can imagine... candy bars, ice cream, chips, dip, energy drinks.... it never ends.
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." What an amazingly simple quote. When did we stop eating to live and to heal and start eating processed crap that destroys us from the inside out? I've always been jealous of my husband who has the incredible ability to eat for sustenance and for no other reason. If he craves something it's usually no worse than a can of mushrooms. He craves healthy food, and I've always wished I could eat like that. For sustenance and not for fun... maybe eating mindfully will be the key to that habit.
Goal #2 for today - meditate.
For ages and ages I've been trying to find time to meditate on a daily basis. I recently saw an amazing video
that said "If you don't have enough time stop watching TV"... well there's a novel idea.
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