Food, our social connection. The one thing that can support our desire for instant gratification is food. We use it to celebrate, to suppress emotions, to entertain, to somehow prevent boredom, but why does food control so much of our emotions? I find that fear controls much of my eating and life choices. The fear to diet and fail or the fear of being miserable on a diet or not belonging socially if I eat differently. We let our emotions dictate our eating habits and unknowingly we are stepping into a shorter life expectancy. The food we decided to consume today will effect the rest of our lives and we aren't taking that truth seriously. We have a cure to the leading cause of death in America and we mock the thought of changing what we eat. So how do we change? I don't have an answer yet. All I can say is we can't let the fear keep us from pursuing a healthy lifestyle. We have to eat to live not live to eat because in the end we want to develop meaningful relationships and not let our food choices render us from doing so. I have seen how diabetes and heart disease can completely hijack your life and keep you from being able to enjoy simple everyday living. So lets make a change. I say let's go live, throw caution to the wind, eat right for yourself, and make a change to better you! So here's to living!!!
Love always,
Keli K.
You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.
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