Blow Your Candle Out

Today was a day of rediscovery. It was a day to remind me why I am choosing the "food" lifestyle that I am entering. It actually started last night. Andy and I went to a big awards dinner for the Ambulance service he volunteers at. It was at a beautiful banquet hall. The buffet was a $50.00 a plate dinner paid for by the ambulance service. I was very nervous about going. Number one is that I am not a socialite and being with a bunch, over a hundred, of people I did not know was almost more then I could take. Plus, the food. I knew there would be lots of yummy food that would be hard to say no to. I thought it out before I left and made mental notes in my head of what I would allow myself. I handled it all pretty good. At one point we were waiting for the seating area to open up and the room I was in was very crowded....I thought I was going to have a panic attack but sipped my water and let it ride. The food was awesome. They had some nice fish and a yummy mixed veggie dish (plus a lot of other things of course). I knew I was going to be ok with the food thing when dessert came out and I actually gave Andy my big piece of cheesecake without even having to think twice about it.

So now we come to today. I had nursery at church and it came to snack time, cheese its and animal crackers. I started thinking, almost second guessing myself about diet and foods. I could lose weight eating some of these snack foods. Weight Watchers is a perfect example of a diet that teaches you how to "eat the foods you love and still lose weight". But then I stopped to think about it. I am not just choosing a "Food Lifestyle" that helps me lose weight. I am choosing the lifestyle that not only has the added benefit of weight loss but that will make me the healthiest. It is no longer just all about the weight loss, of course that is a wonderful benefit. I want to be as healthy and make my body as healthy as it can be. I want to fight disease and illness with nutrition, not with modern medicine. I want to feel the best I can feel and I want the energy too. I truly believe that the food lifestyle I have chosen will give me all of that and more. Knowledge is a wonderful thing and I have been surrounding myself with books, blogs and websites that continually keep me on the track I am going and I have an open mind about it all.

Some people may say I am crazy or fanatical. I don't really care. I am doing what I think is the best for me. I hope that my family will see the health benefits and will join me. But for now I am not pushing them. I have family that tends to run screaming when they are "pushed" into something.

That is all for now.


“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”
Katherine Dunham