Do the Body Right

My weekly fruit haul. When you eat a lot of this, it leaves less room for a lot of other stuff

You can’t get away from yourself.

No matter what you do, where you go, what types of behaviours you indulge in, or what you think about all day long, there is no escape.

You come into this world in a body and, although it changes constantly, you will be in it until you are gone.

Is there any reason to make this an unpleasant place to live? If you are going to be in the same body every single day, wouldn’t you rather it be a pleasant relationship?

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Rewarding Ourselves

Reward, don’t punish. Fruit and berries with coconut yogurt, granola, nuts, and seeds hits the sweet spot

I had a hard day. I deserve to have dessert.

This has been a tough week. I really need that glass of wine.

It’s just a couple of doughnuts. Tomorrow I will eat better but right now I need this.

Sound familiar at all?

It’s natural to want to reward ourselves for surviving when times are tough. And these days, just by the way society is set up, times tend to be tough a lot.

But when we reward ourselves, are we doing something that helps us or puts us further in the hole?

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