Photo: Newstead Park, Brisbane.
Right & Wrong & Food
There is Dr Phil playing in the background, and oh, what a bashing and lashing are going on there. Right and wrong, good and bad. There is a lady who’s on a fruit and raw diet only, and there is a guy who eats raw meat only, and then there are scientists and nutritionists to prove how Wrong they really are.
As said before, science is built on research questions; there are questions never posed, and there are lots.
They look happy. The only worrisome thing is by keep proving their rightness – it’s a double-edged sword…; they might bring trouble for themselves. She has her husband and 2-year-old, who all are on a fruit diet. That’s a bit scary, but it’s probably just a rigid point of view. The safest would be to give children all the choices, and when they are ready, they will make their pick of lifestyle.
Here are people in the world that are living on prana. How wrong are they? Or are they? They can be that because they are ready for that mentally, emotionally and physically, like Australian lady Jasmuheen that I met while in Europe many years before moving here.
When will come the time when science says, ‘Yes, all bodies are different; therefore, they require individualised/holistic approaches’? That would destroy the whole structure that everyone is used to.
Until then, you are the one who has to pay attention, take care, prevent, and make aware choices.
Tip: You always know actually what foods are making you feel good and which ones make you feel sick and which ones you tend to overeat. This is your measure, or get tested for it.
Anyway, the show is about being a victim: what I saw on social media, the recipes they give, what they did to me, putting me on a strict diet, making me exercise that made me sick, etc. Who chose it?
Like with everything else in life, there aren’t right or wrong foods. Finding your balance is a journey. For example, if you know you love sweets too much, then cheat yourself and make sugar-free treats. Still have carbs and sugar, but to cut them back, you have options for that.
Self-talk: do not tell yourself, ‘Well, everyone in our family is like that.’
My dad was slim until he turned 30.
He had decided that after that men would get fat and, of course, the genes. All their family were kind of roundish, so he had decided there was no way around it. Interestingly, the next generation, all 11 grandchildren, we didn’t have that gene?!? 🙂.
Diet, perhaps, is something to begin with; it gives some awareness about different foods and the feel of the food. However, no diet is sustainable, but a lifestyle is, which involves exploring and being actually interested in what is good for you. If you know you’re intolerant to something, then stay away from it. It’s all overcomplicated; once again, what if change is easy? We have never, ever had so many food options before as we have today.
Compare yourself to You one great thing Dr Phil said.
My habit of nostalgia is watching t… TV at times, and there is one even worse TV show… lol.
OK then, I have been planning to write about feeding yourself and not knowing where to start. It’s started!
Whatever you have, enjoy it! 🙂 No guilt, no blame, just happy!
P.S.. Update about my 90-year-old friend. She’s back home. Do you know that the first sentence she said was, ‘It’s so depressing there, and everyone is so old.’? She realised what she had said and smoothed it out with the next sentence, but I can’t get over this one! 🙂 🙂 🙂