Just Eat!

Should I eat carbs, should I only eat low-fat foods, should I eat after 6pm, should I eat only vegetables?  I think we spend so much time worrying about what we should and should not eat that we forget why we are worried about it at all.  There is so much information out there and we all are inundated with new nutrition, fintess and body image stuff on a daily basis.  Who knew eating healthy would be so stressful.  Well, in my opinion there is one thing that works, it is forgetting about all the media, the hype and just trust your instincts.  What I mean is that we all know the things that are healthy and the foods that are not.  We have been taught from a young age that fruits and veggies are good and fried foods should be consumed sparingly.  So why not change the way you look at eating, instead of worrying so much just eat.  That is, just eat the things that you know are going to make you feel healthy.  Fresh stuff, lots of water, home cooked meals these are the things that good eating is made of.  Can we change our thinking enough to just think what the consequences of eating fried food is and choose not to do it?  I think we can and every now and then we can indulge and have that forbidden fruit. 

We have enough stress in our lives why must we be so preoccupied with food.  The answer is because it is something we can control in our lives.  There are a ton of things in our lives that are out of our control so we feel like it is the one thing we can obsess about and it will give us a feeling of control.  If we can give up control and just eat the things we know are healthy, we can feel good about our choices and thus feel in control in a positive way instead of a stressful way. -Lauren Lorenzo