Personal Meditation No. 163

“It may not be your fault but it is still your problem.”

Embrace the Within.

Our brains love sugar and salt. And during this cold and dark time of the year, our bodies want to pack on the added layers. Food companies make certain to market foods that hit our sugary and salty receptors. Hooking us on eating things based on a biological process that was beneficial hundreds of years ago BUT today is a detriment to our health.

None of this is your fault. You didn’t create your body with this biological impulse. You didn’t take advantage of that biological impulse to sell processed food. BUT it is still our problem. The problem is not going away and the problem is not going to get easier to fix.

BUT, you can change the way you address the problem by thinking about the problem and critically approaching how to solve that problem. The fact that despite all the amazing advances in medicine and health that Americans are the unhealthiest they have ever been metabolically is disturbing. Obesity is an epidemic that fuels many other problems in American society.

Talking healthy eating is not attractive. Sometimes even advocating for healthy eating is considered shaming. And it is everyone’s choice to eat whatever they want. Just know that your body is fueled by what you choose to use to fuel your body. Your brain, your heart, your lungs, your liver, your kidneys, everything is affected by the fuel you choose.

Folks like to look for an easy way to get around the simple choices of what they’re putting into their bodies. They look to exercise, to pills, to surgeries, to any alternative that does not involve changing their diet. It’s human nature to just want the easy way out of the problem.

BUT, the easiest way out is changing how you eat. It gets no simpler than just buying better food. When I quit smoking, I had to change my routine in order to stop buying cigarettes. It is really difficult to smoke cigarettes if you don’t have any cigarettes. It is equally difficult to eat bad food if you don’t buy it. Both cigarettes and bad food are addictive. They light up the pleasure centers of the brain. And they are both poor choices that we can easily choose to change.

There are a lot of problems out there in the world today. Most of them can get changed from changing ourselves. We are not going to help anyone if we’re a mess. So, I encourage you to consider looking at when and what and why you’re eating. Critically looking at our eating habits is a first great step toward getting mentally and physically healthy. Give it a try and see how much better you feel about yourself, about your journey, about your life?

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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