Reason #12 to Love My Body: Because Your Relationship is Reciprocal
I love this one because it's so true and because it's something that I think we've forgotten as a society. As we create lots and lots and LOTS of artificial gunk to put in our food (from artificial sweeteners and colors to GMOs), we forget the old adage of "garbage in garbage out."
I watched a fascinating episode of Cosmos last night with my family about evolution and how we have taken billions of years to evolve certain genetic dispositions. And, as I listened to Neil de Grasse Tyson speak so eloquently, all I could think about was how the so called "modern diseases" have expanded so much over the past few decades and how our obesity epidemic is getting out of control. And how much of that is caused by that "garbage in garbage out" philosophy. Our bodies are not yet used to digesting and handling our way of life. Eventually, I do believe that we will "garbage" ourselves into extinction. Confused about what I mean? Go watch Wall-E. This is a scary representation of what humans could be sending themselves to in the future. A world where we are morbidly obese riding around on cars all day long. We are putting garbage such as artificial sweeteners and genetically modified foods into our bodies. To compound the issue, the "fresh" stuff that we are getting isn't nearly as good for us as it used to be. (See part one of this Paul Chek video series if you have some time...it's the first in a series of fascinating talks about why dirt is important.) And the mental garbage that we feed ourselves is JUST as bad!! I've spent the last few blogs talking about the disservice we do to ourselves in negative self talk and the "yeah buts.." and I'm not going further into it in this one. But, that's MORE garbage in!!!
Now, I'm not immune to this. I'm sitting here on my second latte (with splenda) of the day and enjoying myself. I've had all sorts of things today that I would lump into the "garbage" category. Worse, I'm not even putting any good exercise in. (Yes...I consider sitting on my lazy ass at Starbucks part of the garbage in category.) But, it's something I'm keenly aware of. When I eat more fresh fruits, vegetables and lean natural proteins, my body feels better. I have more energy and I enjoy life. The more processed and bagged and boxed foods I eat, the more lethargic I feel and the worse I feel about myself. And the worse I feel about myself, the more negative self talk I do. And that leads to entire cycle of garbage in (physical, mental, emotional) and that's why I feel as yucky as I do some days.
So how do we break that cycle? Pick one piece of garbage to THROW OUT!!! And refuse to allow that garbage back in. You could try to take all the garbage out at once but that might be a bit overwhelming! So, create yourself a garbage bin (no recycle logos on it), and slowly pick things to get rid of. It might be artificial sweeteners. It might be cable TV or video games or even Facebook. It might be that annoying person whose statuses just irk you the wrong way every time. Whatever or whoever it is....THROW IT OUT!!!! :)
NEED HELP? Here's a pic to post on your fridge:
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