Nutrition: Part 1

Keeping track of your food and having awareness to what we put in our body is essential for our health. Logging your food intake, even for 3-4 weeks, is one easy way to keep track of what you are feeding your body, and understand the motivations behind eating. You would be surprised at how many times you go to eat out of boredom, stress, emotional state or just habit. But are you really hungry?

We prioritize eating for so many things that are unnecessary – social events, celebrations, and more. There are so many habits around food, especially here in the United States – it’s such a cultural thing. When people talk about doing cleanses and prioritizing food, they also talk about up-coming holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, summer BBQs, etc. They have to schedule their nutritional efforts around pre-existing commitments.

Furthermore, the more natural and unprocessed the food is, the better. Everything that has been on this planet and not transformed into fried chips and put into a plastic bag – if your food has been handled, processed, bleached, painted, dehydrated, packed and bagged, you probably don’t want to eat too much of it. Generally, the closer the food is to its original form, the higher the nutritional value. And when things are natural, they are usually already in their natural serving sizes. We as Americans just like to Super Size our meals, and don’t think about proportions at all.