You could call me a health freak. Well, not really. I've never been accused of that before. But one thing has been bothering me lately, and it has to do with food. Specifically eating it (unless there's something else you do with food?). I'm not going to tell you how many calories you should have or any of that stuff. What I am going to tell you is to take food seriously. Yes, you. Yes, food. Yes, seriously. I'm tired of people (especially in authority that are supposed to be our examples) making light of how bad they eat (people from the pulpit talking about how they just eat pizza and steak all the time). Why is it that we expect people to practice self control when it comes to sex, but we can't exercise self control when it comes to what we eat? I'm not telling you to go vegetarian or vegan or on some big diet, but there's so many EASY things you can do to eat healthier. Because yes, the Bible says whether you're eating or drinking (or whatever), do all for God's glory.
1. Put down the soda. I'm not going to go into all the scientific details (come to my speech next week for that), but needless to say, the stuff is horrible. And the average American drinks 600 cans per year. SIX. HUNDRED. Disgusting. Google "coke drain cleaner." Even if you start with dropping to every other day instead of every day, it's a start. Diet is no better either.
2. Don't do that steak challenge thing. Ya know, eat this ginormous steak in however much time, get it free. But actually this is about buffets. You're eating like, 3 meals at once. And it's usually just nastiness. And fried stuff. Don't do it. Go grilled.
3. I try to sneak my vegetables into some kind of soup. Don't avoid them because they're gross. Suffer through. Your body will thank you.
4. Don't bathe your pizza in ketchup and mayo. No seriously, I saw this once. Gross. If you eat something like bacon and/or sausage, take a minute and a few napkins and dry the grease off. It's disgusting how much you don't have to make slide down your throat. And you're not really hungry, so don't do ice cream. Sugar makes you think you're hungrier than you really are and you end up eating more. Drinking water with your meal will make you full faster in a much healthier way.
5. Think. Look at the food your eating and say "how can I make this just a little better for me? or what can I exchange in this meal for something else?"
Now I'm not gonna go all super body builder cray-cray on you. You can have a piece of pizza. Have a soda. Have a chicken nugget. But the times you don't should FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR X 1000 outnumber the times you do. Moderation, yo. Use it. It's in the Bible. Biblical self control is for all areas of life. Even food. And you might even feel better about yourself.
-RST
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