Eat To Live, Don't Live To Eat.

Lately I've been reading a lot about food, and nutrition, and I've been getting a lot of questions about what to eat to lose weight, as well as how to fix achy joints, and low energy levels. 

This post is all about what you put into your body and how it effects how you feel. 

Ever heard the saying, "You reap what you sow?" This applies to your nutrition as well.

When you eat fast food, you're putting huge amounts of fat, sodium, and calories into your body. When you ingest sodium, your body produces urine to get rid of it. When you ingest too much sodium, your body can't handle it and it stays in your system. This can cause tons of problems like high blood pressure, heart disease, weight gain, stroke, and it can even pull the calcium out of your bones making them more fragile. 

After you eat fast food, your body puts all it's energy to digest it and doesn't get much of a reward. Not a lot of vitamins and minerals are digested which help give you energy and help regulate your bodies systems. When you're not getting those essential nutrients, your body keeps losing energy with no way of replenishing it which slows down your metabolism, which means of your food is stored as fat. After eating a huge hamburger with a plate of fries and a soda, have you felt sluggish, tired, and lazy? Step away from the fried starches and start eating some clean, raw veggies! :)

As we get older, our bodies start to ache and sometimes we can't move the way we used to high school, but when you're still in your 20's and 30's and you have constant aches, muscle soreness, and headaches, something is wrong. Soda and/or diet soda drinker? 

Please, if you are having health problems and have gone to the doctor numerous times and come up empty handed. Just take a look at your diet. What you put into your body DOES effect how you feel, look, energy levels, and most importantly, your HEALTH. Take care of your body because it's the only one you have. 

When you're feeding your body with foods packed full of nutrients, you're going to feel better, look better, have a TON more energy, and you will live a longer, healthier life! I don't know about you, but I plan on being the 80 year old going to yoga class still, and I know that that's not going to happen if I don't take care of my body now. 

Make the promise to yourself that you are going to respect your body, and take care of it. YOU are responsible for your health, and YOU are in charge of your future. Make it a future full of happy memories, and not one full of misery and doctor's visits. 

Eat to live, don't live to eat.