FOOD! FOOD! FOOD!

It's been really bugging me.  Food.  Obsessing about it, ruminating about it, lamenting about it,  always turning "food" over and over in my head.  The reason - how important it is.  Isn't it one of the major reasons we get up in the morning?  If we didn't have to eat - would we have to work?  Maybe not as hard - shelter is the next reason we get up in the morning and go to work.  There are others, but FOOD is our fuel.  Like the gas we put in our car or truck.  If you put in bad gas, does your car let you know?  Oh ya. 

So why would we put anything less than real food in our bodies?  It's our fuel.  We ARE WHAT WE EAT.  And boy do I know.  I'm no different than the average person - when I get busy I get lazy and don't eat the way I should and I PAY THE PRICE.  I feel like crap, don't have any energy, ache, muscles hurt, stomach hurts, bad gas (TMI), headaches, coughing up icky stuff (again TMI), but as soon as I start eating real food, all is well.  Duh. 



NOT REAL FOOD

 What is real food?  Food that has been grown or raised in a natural or organic environment, as close to it's roots or mother it can get, not packaged or preserved.  Organic fresh veggies, organic fresh fruit, organic eggs, organic meat and fish, organic legumes, organic grains.

Eating real food is more than staying away from fast foods, it is avoiding as much processed food as possible and consuming mainly fresh and local food.

In Minnesota we have a relatively short growing season.  So there is a challenge to eat fresh and local during these long, snowy months, but we can and in the relative ease category - it can be a challenge.  All-in-all eating healthy appears to be more expensive and appears to be more time consuming.  At least that has been my experience, but then I am not the most organized person all the time. BUT  if we compare the savings in what we reduce in doctor's fees and cost of medication the initial cost and of eating real food is insignificant.

 BUT (there is that inevitable BUT) the paybacks are huge!!!  More physical energy, more mental energy, better health (I know of this person who dropped her health insurance and saved herself over $100,000 during her life time and has never had to go to the doctor due to the way she eats - she's well into her 80's now), did I say more energy?  Yes endless, boundless energy and health by making a conscious decision to change the most important thing we do every day - put fuel in our bodies.

Fresh carrot juice in the morning along with organic steel cut oats topped with organic blueberries and organic milk, raw if you like.  Then for lunch an organic spinach salad and top your day off at dinner time with an organic black bean, organic sweet potato tostada.  Lots of water, ten 8 ounce glasses!  All those super foods and water to flush!  Ha - no pun intended.

Reorganize, reprioritize and take a step toward a healthier lifestyle.  Like absolutely everything we do - it takes effort, a conscious decision to not be a burden to society or your family, we stumble, we slip, and we fall and like when we were kids we get back up and keep going!  What's important?  Being healthy for the ones you love or owning the newest, fancy gadget you  just saw on TV?  Think what it would be like if when you got up in the morning - you didn't have to take medication, your body didn't ache, and you just naturally bounded out of bed!!!!  FOOD!  Can you see now why I've been rolling it over and over and over in my head?