Today! With the Food Coach

Looking your best isn’t about how well dressed you are. It’s about how attractive your skin and hair are, your smile and how alive your eyes are. Looking our best involves preparation. Yes, we have to comb our hair and more, but we look better if we have a healthy appearance. We can enhance our looks with the food choices we make every day. Being healthy and attractive is part of what draws people to us and people are really interesting to know, aren’t they? 

Do you feel good today? No matter how I may “feel”, I tell myself that I feel great! I want to feel great at all times, don’t you? We know we are affected by what other people say to us and do to us, but we have the ability to overcome those outside influences with thoughts of what those who love us think of us. Who loves us more than our Father God? We are physically affected by the thoughts we think and also by the food we eat. The good news is that we are in control of both of those. Isn’t that great news? 

It would be great to have fewer symptoms and illnesses. I feel sure none of us want to be sick. It’s hard to enjoy anything or anyone when we feel less than great. Wouldn’t it be great if things like colds, allergies, fatigue, headaches and all the rest, would just go away and never return? It’s good to know that symptoms can be minimized and maybe eliminated, never to return.  

Is it truly possible to eat delicious food that builds our health, is satisfying (no hunger), and keeps us at a good weight? Eating a good meal doesn’t mean you will have a tasteless, dry meal with teeny, tiny portions that don’t fill you up. No one wants to be hungry. Our meals can be absolutely delicious, fill us up, give us energy and also keep us healthy. The foods designed for us do that automatically. That’s a plan I can live with and stick with. Could you? 

What if you’re at a restaurant, at a friend’s home, at a potluck meal and want to make good choices. On what do you base your decisions? Each situation requires a little different approach but given two food choices one will usually be better. Is it possible to easily know which to choose and what to do? Yes, by knowing what the Bible says and by good research we can always know what to choose. It could be that easy. 

That’s a huge question and a personal one. For many people even minimal changes can result in positive differences. I always feel that it is worth it to try because I may just lose an unwanted habit. I need to know two things to make a change. One is to know my personal reason for the change, and another is to be certain that it will move me in a helpful, honest and good direction. If things aren’t in place the old habit will resurface. But if it does and I still believe it’s worth changing, I will try again and never give up. Making a firm decision and never giving up on it will eventually bring permanent change. 

This is personal, but for myself, it is worth it to prepare my meals with health in mind. I seldom cook things that require a lot of preparation, a lot of ingredients or a lot of skill to make. The less we manipulate (process) our food, the better it is. Even mistakes are usually edible and enjoyable. Sometimes I even discover something new. I enjoy playing in the kitchen and creating meals. It’s well worth it because it’s fun to feel good.