
Your Relationship with Food is Dictating Your Life’s Progress and Future
I read an article that caused me to think about it all day long. Actually, it has been a few days and I am still thinking about it. The article wasn’t mind blowing, and I didn’t even agree with some of the statements, but one sentence grabbed me. It basically stated that we all have relationships with food and that relationship has a major impact on our lives. I had never thought about the fact that I myself have a relationship with food, but I do.
We all develop perceptions, good or bad, about food. It starts with our youth and to this day we can recall eating certain kinds of candy that brings back memories of fun and joy. We can smell familiar comfort foods and be at ease before we have even tasted them. We also can associate certain foods with a longing for the past. Haven’t we all longed for that one meal at a restaurant that no longer exists? Don’t we all have that one thing that someone made like no one else that we long to taste one more time?
Food can become entertainment or a path to being social. Food can be what we use to give us energy to tackle more hours in the day when what we should do is stop and rest. Food can make us healthy or unhealthy. Food and our relationship with it can either be setting us up to succeed or putting us on a path of failure and actually a shorter lifespan.
Choices of what to eat or not to eat, when to eat or not eat, or the quantity of food to consume is all dictating our life’s progress.
I want to be healthy and I want to be successful in all my pursuits. I want to live a big life and have adventures and life experiences. I want to see the young ones in my family grow and prosper and I want to set myself up for all the things I want in life through the right choices and I there is no denying it, my relationship with food determines a lot of whether what I want will happen or not.
Through that one article I was led to others. I discovered that I should be widening my choices of foods. I should be cooking at home more to have control over the preparation. I should be visiting farmer’s markets and trying new things. I should be discovering new ways to prepare old favorites and expanding my exposure to healthier foods.
I became excited about trying new things. I was excited about making choices about food strictly because it would benefit my health rather than provide a quick pick me up. I was excited to make food choices for the right nutrition instead of because it was familiar or because it was convenient.
In choosing to simply evaluate my relationship with food I could be starting a cycle of evaluating other relationships with the things I simply take for granted in my life that are also impacting my future. It may be something small, but the choices I make can be more mindful and with more intent, and that will make me a more focused and disciplined person in other areas of my life.
I’m so looking forward to the changing of the season and all that the harvest of autumn will offer in new tastes, smells, and a healthier lifestyle. I hate to see summer fade, but I’m energized to create a better, healthier, and positive relationship with food. Hope you will consider to do the same. Let’s make it happen and set out to have a brighter, healthier, and longer future ahead of us.
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