Are you sure you are eating healthy?

veryone around me is drinking
I was sitting in a meeting the other day, and everyone around me was drinking soda and monster and eating candy…..

Most people seem to complain about not being able to lose weight….

Do they know? Is it the will power or lack of knowledge? Is it mindset? Emotional eating?  Or maybe not realizing that whether it is a drink, or food, it is still sugar.  I mean, I didn't used to realize that.  

It could be all of those things…. but yet I think there is an element of thinking we are eating healthy when we aren’t.  For one,  because we don’t really know what healthy actually is,
and two, because we are fed untruths through advertising.  Maybe we don't know what healthy is because of advertising. 

Some of us know that high-fructose corn syrup is bad…… but did you know to look for it in bread? We are taught to read that chart on the product above the ingredients. Carbs, sugar, sodium. But do we read ingredients?  Both are important.  There are things hiding in food that you would never expect.

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​Sometimes, reading the ingredients can be frustrating because we can’t pronounce the words and don’t know what to look for. Those words that we can’t pronounce, we shouldn’t eat…… simple as that.



​Did you know that if you read ingredients, you can find many similar items where one product has lots of words we can’t pronounce, and another that may have as little as 3-5 ingredients and is healthier.

Sometimes eating healthier is as simple as that. It doesn’t always, or should not really ever mean dieting or being deprived. It just means being smarter and more educated about our food.  I realize this reading ingredients on everything takes time, and is inconvenient, and needs practice to create a habit.  But going to the doctor, and not being able to find the problem, or constantly trying to lose weight and being frustrated about it takes time as well.  I am happy to help anyone with ingredients, or answer any questions on what brand or products are a better choice.  I am not sure if this is helpful, I hope so.  So the bottom line is that we really need to look at ingredients.  And also, one thing that really effects our health, that many people do not even think about is sugary drinks, such as soda, and most juices.  And I realize cutting these things out may be difficult, but if you drink more than one a day, maybe cut down slowly, by one, or a few.  How about searching for an alternative with a little less sugar......That also brings me to another topic for another day, .....if you are looking for alternatives, please don't think that artificial sugar is better.  There are all kinds of side effects with these, and even though it may not make sense to us, these artificial sugars because they are chemicals, and the way they are processed, can even prohibit weight-loss.  Yes you heard me.....prohibit it.  They are not better.

Here's to your Health!
Theresa

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