Eating Isn’t the Problem, Wrong Eating Is

Food is not just something we consume to fuel ourselves anymore. Food is an art, an emotion. With various food items in the market, people now have access to more and more kinds of food that satisfy their cravings. Even though food is a gateway to joy, one has to be aware of determining what they are feeding their body. It is not just willpower that makes us overeat and gain weight. Most often, it is that recurring bad habit we develop without even realizing it, like rushing out the door some mornings without breakfast or snacking on chips in front of our favourite TV show. The next thing you know, one little bad habit can equal a lot of weight gain. The sad part is that we might not even subconsciously realize what we are doing to our diet. Bad eating habits can even hurt our brain and not just our waistline. Understanding our bodies is something most of us tend to take very lightly. If we don’t listen to the signs and symptoms, our body health is compromised in the long run.

Signs of Wrong Eating

Listening to our body implies what foods we react to positively, what foods don’t make us feel the best, and trying to eliminate eating the wrong things for our bodies. Here are some signs that indicate that your body is in serious need of a change of diet:

Feeling Bloated
Unable to Sleep
Mood Swings
Feeling Hungry
Feeling Constipated
Constant Pimples
Prone to Infections

People often confuse clean and healthy eating with a bland and tasteless eating experience. Eating healthy doesn’t mean we have to restrict ourselves to only vegetables. Eating a well-balanced diet and enjoying everything we like in moderation is better for our health. A balanced diet generally includes a long list of food items to provide all our body’s nutrients. The principles of ‘clean eating‘ are based on the advancements in current nutrition science. Eating clean and living well boosts our energy levels and optimizes our health, making it more than a diet. It is a way of life with built-in flexibility, which means it can be adapted to fit almost any kind of routine.

Some Core Principles of Clean Eating are:

Take it easy on fat, salt, and sugar
Eat small portions of food every 2 hours.
Stay physically active.
Choose unrefined natural food over packaged refined food.
Minimize processed food as much as possible.

The struggle is only in the beginning. Once you make clean eating a lifestyle choice, you will start to notice incredible changes in your body, which change you for the good. It is easy not to think about what we feed ourselves throughout the day to fill our stomachs. But we should be very well aware of the nutritional value of everything we eat. Because we cannot clean our inner bodies, our food choices do it for us. It depends on whether we cleanse it with flowers or fire.