good eating vs. the environment we live in…the never ending battle
It’s been three (3) months and I feel as if I am now mentally prepared for the for the battle or task of living every day life where calories, exercise and the time continuum come into play. Many of us can acheive the short term gains of extreme diets, short term gimmicks or a week/month long exercise regiment, but what about the rest of the time? How can we achieve a balance without going underboard (not eating) on the food we like or worse, overboard on the foods we love and have become used to eating? Many of today’s foods are addictive based (by design) on cravings for a particular ingredient in a food or the simplicity of eating whatever is available in a particular place (work or home) at a particular time (whatever we have time for). What is even more difficult is how to avoid or go against the grain of the environment we live and thrive in on daily basis.
Good, bad or indifferent, many of us dont have a choice (or think we dont) or havent developed the ”will power” tools to ignore the surroundings that influence our daily routine. In lew of not using our will power, we fall victim to our environment and simply follow what’s easy, convenient or simply do what others do. The solutions to all of these issues are available if we practice and train ourselves to use the tools that have been stripped or lulled away by fast food restaurants, marketing gimmicks and the influential media.
For everyone its different, but there is one common denominator that groups us together; we are all very creative when it comes to fabricating excuses as to why we “cant” change the way things are in our lives. As a race, we have become who we are by the people we surround ourselves with and our influences (friends, family, support groups). And, as long as there seems no reason for change then we continue to exist in these groups until we wake up one day and dislike who we’ve become.
This “victim of our environment” mantality can be changed if we choose to change it. Its not easy, but it can be done with superior attitude and superior state-of-mind to break the mold that we’ve poured ourselves into. One moment, one day and one person at a time we can change…I’ve proven it in a short period of time and will continue to evolve the new me.