Is Eating Right All The Time Causing You Stress?

Stress can stop your weight loss goals about as much as eating a
family size bag of Nacho chips and a 2-Liter bottle of pop can
My approach to weight loss was in gaining my health Losing 300
pounds was not the first thing that occurred to me, but rather
“what could I do to get healthy and eat right” It was a very
strange approach given that I was obviously clinically obese and
immediately needed some quick weight loss
I had no idea that our body used food in a very specific manor
and that we could improve our energy levels by working with the
body, not against it There were some very specific rules to
follow, so being the good student I followed them It became a
religion for me and as I preached it, I made many people quite
crazy I became an outcast because I had to prepare my food
differently and would not eat with the gang at meal times My
food was prepared differently, eaten differently and eventually
I even came to ask food servers to use different spatulas to
flip my “veggie burger” from the grill
I followed the rules and I increased my energy I began eating
better and my energy levels increased enough that my weight loss
began and I started to become lean and healthy
Then the stuff hit the fan
Well, it hit their fan, not mine
Friends began to talk behind my back about wanting the old Rob
back In one instance, I was held down on a couch while cola was
poured into my mouth against my will They wanted their old
funny, fat, life of the party friend back, not this health nut
with all these food rules
I think I first became aware of being stressed about food at a
birthday party I was asked to attend It was a time of
celebration, but do you want to know what I was thinking?
“Do I or don’t I have a piece of cake?”
“This is totally processed, unnatural food No fiber, no
wholeness and it contained sugars, lard and all kinds of other
crap”
I had a whole bunch of thoughts about how this would affect my
weight loss goals, my health and my eating habits
I was weighing the thoughts of being socially acceptable against
the health choice of having this one little piece of cake I
thought about losing them as friends if I did not accept the
cake and weighed it against the impact this poor food choice was
going to have on my body I had already lost friends because of
my food choices and I really did not want to lose more
I’m sure you’ve been there yourself, having to make a decision
based on your social status vs your health It’s a very quick
thought process, but you notice that your blood pressure goes
up, your heart begins to beat faster, you begin to sweat… you
know what I mean?
I ate the cake
I felt like crap
I felt like crap on many levels and I was stressing about this
excessively I felt bad that I had to make that choice in this
manner I felt bad because the sugar was surging into my blood
and I felt bad because I “thought about this way too much”
At some point, you need to let go of it all
There is energy in food; in the love and people around you that
prepared the food and the circumstances in which it’s eaten
Never eat a meal when you are upset or sad because you should be
enjoying the meal and taking in all the goodness in what the
earth has brought to your body Take in all that goodness and
let go of all the stress
Eat naturally as much as you can and increase the amount of
whole foods in your diet Make a choice to remove processed
foods and beverages such as cola’s, fruit juices, coffee and
traditional teas Eat with a smile on your face and give thanks
to everyone involved in bringing the meal, the nutrition and
that energy into your body
Then when the time is right, have fun and enjoy the health
you’ve created
There was a very dramatic shift in my life, my health and my
weight loss when I made the choice to enjoy some foods again I
began to break my own rules and live my life I began to have
fun with food and fun came back into my life
Let go
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