You would think that most of this blog would end up relating to fitness and physical movement. Interestingly enough I feel like the majority of my posts for some time will actually relate to nutrition so here goes:
Let’s start with the basics: Food is Fuel. Let’s now follow that metaphor a little further, I was putting gas in the Jeep today when I thought about the consequences of not actually using gas. What would really happen if I decided to put sand/water/Extra Virgin Olive Oil/Etc. in my car? The result is that it would not work, not simply run poorly or maybe run, maybe not. The car absolutely would not work. We must therefore have the same imagination about our body. There is God-given natural food, supplements that have been constructed to aid food and then stuff that only passes for food because it technically has food building blocks and can be calorically measured. Given the choice between a nice lean piece of chicken breast and a twinky it should be no surprise which one I would rather taste, but which one was designed from the ground up to make my engine run and which one will not only be “not good” but make my engine stall?
I’m not going to lay out a special eating plan during this post or even begin to meddle in your refrigerator (well, not yet), but I simply want to invite you to expand your imagination of what food is and does for you. The old paradigms of Good food = Taste Bad and Bad Food = Taste Good simply no longer apply. Rather I want you to imagine food as either making your engine run or stall, no in-between. So go ahead and enjoy that Bear Claw in the morning, scarf all the pizza you want down as you watch football this afternoon, but start to think about the food you are eating as you do, no guilt, just think.
