Body Matters

For the past two days I’ve been grappling with a cold—stuffy head, sneezing, coughing—you get the picture.  How quickly our bodies get our full attention when something goes awry! When everything is in good working order, too many of us take our bodies for granted.  But cut a finger, break a leg, or catch a cold and boom! we awaken in an instant.

For the past seven weeks I’ve become more aware of my body and its needs than I have been in years.  That’s because I’ve changed my diet and my lifestyle because it quite suddenly was no longer acceptable to me to lug around extra weight, feel groggy after meals, and not have the energy to do all that I love to do.  So I developed a plan, set some very specific goals, and because successful change necessarily involves changing one’s mindset, began my quest to learn as much as I can about the body’s needs, nutrition and exercise.  My education has already paid off handsomely—I’ve lost 21 pounds healthfully, am training for a 5K walk, and today, day three of my cold, am feeling like I’m mostly over it.

It took me many years to get real with nutrition and exercise, but I truly feel that there’s no stopping me now.

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”—Thomas Edison

“Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise.”—Mike Adams

“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” –Hippocrates

Enjoy your day!