The ideas in this area will explore healthy eating. We may look at how we eat, or search out healthy recipes, and restaurant choices. Let’s look at how to make eating a better or more fun experience.
- What is Our Relationship to Food? Let’s take a look at our relationship to food. Why do you eat? Is it to feed your hunger? Are you eating because you are bored or lonely? Is food a means of comfort for you? My mom died several years back, and I found myself eating chocolate-chip cookies a lot. For many reasons, they reminded me of her, and for a while, after her death, I allowed myself to overindulge. One day, I realized that though the cookies might remind me of Mom, they weren’t helping me in the weight department. I realized I needed to cut this back to a very occasional event, rather than the daily, or several times a week indulgences I was allowing. I acknowledged the early support this had given me to work through my grief, and also, that I needed to release it for my own health.
- Make Healthy Choices! Making healthy choices in the foods you eat can jumpstart your journey to better health. Use the opportunity to energize yourself. Look in magazines for healthy recipes. Consider choosing favorite family recipes that go back decades, and probably used cleaner ingredients. Take a special trip to a farmers market for fresh veggies, or take time to enjoy a trip to the grocery store with a specific meal in mind, look at fresh produce, screen product labels for less healthy ingredients, like corn syrup, sodium content and other chemical additives.
Making healthy choices of fresh produce can also be stimulating for many of your senses. Feel the firm texture of zucchini squash. Can you smell that bunch of bananas or that grapefruit? Do you see all the bright colors in the produce section? When you tear up a head of Romaine lettuce, you may even hear how fresh it is, if you stay in the moment.