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If we choose our food by the amount of time it takes us to prepare it, what lessons are we passing on to our kids? Do you agree that this model might lead to bad habits? If healthy eating is not a priority, then it will not make its way into your life in a sustainable way. Here is one tool you can use today to start shifting the stories you are passing on to your kids about food: Planning.
I want to be clear that what I am about to share is not to complain. Anyone who knows me knows that whining is not my style. But I wanted to share some recent experiences as an observation of where we are right now as a society with food and family, and how even I, a healthy family advocate, I can let moments slip by with out speaking up. I writing this so that you can hold me accountable, and perhaps find inspiration to hold yourself accountable for the impact that we moms can make on the current state of the standard American diet.
One of the basic principles that well-meaning health practitioners have promoted for years is that weight loss always comes down to calories in versus calories out—that whether you eat a balanced, health-promoting diet of vegetables, fruit, whole grains and lean protein or a bunch of processed junk, as long as the calories are right, you’ll lose weight. The truth I’ve discovered contradicts that long-held belief. Not only should you eat a healthy, whole-foods diet because it boosts your energy and reduces your risk of disease, you should also do so because a calorie is not, in fact, just a calorie.
Have you ever had a gut feeling? Or felt butterflies in your stomach? If so, then you have experienced the gut-brain connection. Some experts once believed that issues in the brain should be handled separately from the gut, but more research is showing that if you want to improve your moods, memory, and brain function, look to the health of your gut.
When you give up, you give your power and your strength away, reinforcing the belief that “you are not capable”, that “you were not made for this world” and that “life is too hard and is not worth living”. There are many other beliefs that might be connected to the root of the issue, but recognizing and acknowledging this “powerless” mentality is the first step towards the light at the end of the tunnel.
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