Food Fight!!!

Creature of habit, that's me. Get up, have a coffee, do a work out, have a bite, go to work (job or household), come home, lunch, back to work, come home (again), relax, supper, bed, repeat. Sounds monotonous right, wrong. It is the life I have chosen, it is comfortable, it suits me, But that doesn't mean I am not open to a little change now and then. actually, this is a fairly big change, I speak of food.

Food is everywhere. Let me rephrase that, bad food is everywhere, good food not so much. I can go out right now and eat myself to oblivion on crap, burgers, pizza, ice cream, chips, you name it, it is a 5 minute drive from my door to my belly. Even worse, I can now pay someone to bring it right to my mouth, just open my wallet and they will deliver it right to my colon (almost 😀), anything I want, no questions, no judgement, just pay them to slowly kill you. And don't forget the tip! And then we wonder why obesity is running rampant.

Good food. What is good food? Do we speak strictly of taste? Or where it falls on the classical 80's food pyramid, or what a pro athlete eats, or what your Nana used to make for Sunday dinner?? Or worse yet, because it is expensive it must be good right? If you want to hurt your brain and bowels, ask the internet, I gained 2 pounds binge eating while reading about the benefits of only eating watermelon on a full moon. Sorry, I'm going off topic and starting to rant, probably the cheesecake I had last night taking hold of my brain stem. Back to my topic.

I have changed one aspect of my daily routine. Instead of toast with honey for breakfast, I am now eating a mixture of fruit and vegetables, it consists of (usually); a banana, an apple, some strawberries, some grapes, cucumber slices, diced carrots, yellow or orange bell pepper slices, celery, and some blueberries. Sounds like a lot, but really it isn't, it's a bowl full at best. And I absolutely love the flavors in the morning. And the energy it gives me, oh baby where have you been all my life?! I'm not even going to mention what it does to my digestive track, oh wait, I just did, sorry.

I guess all the rhetoric I have been fed (pun intended) throughout my live may have some merit after all, you know, "eat your vegetables, those are empty calories, you eat too much sugar, limit your portion size, etc", it has been drilled into my brain since I was a kid and I always thought I knew better. Boy was I wrong. Now at 51 years old, I know my body can no longer sustain eating just because, I must eat with a cause, to live as long as possible and as healthy as possible. This is going to be one off the hardest challenges I have ever given myself, I hope I am up for it.

Don Bjorkquist