Fat? Tired? Moody? Choices have much more to do with these than you know

FOOD not only shapes your body, it shapes your mood, perception and choices.  The old adage ‘You are what you eat’ is way truer than most of us realize.  Your eating habits are not a matter of discipline; they are a matter of choice.  Every time we eat we are making a choice to either fulfill our primal needs for nutrients or satisfy our hunger cravings properly or eat what tastes good at the moment and leaves us feeling like crap later.  Each feeding is a new choice much like LIFE is basically a serious of choices.

Hundreds of times per day we are making choices whether we realize it or not.  Choices that will affect us positively or negatively.  Make no mistake, you may be saying to yourself, I rarely make choices or I don’t make choices they are made for me. 

Repeat this out loud:  I MAKE CHOICES EVER DAY.

To get on a successful path you have got to start making positive, healthy life choices.  Let me give you some examples of simple choices that we all face everyday that impact our lives.  

It starts early in the day; we choose to get up when we should (around 6-6:30am) or we choose to sleep in late.  We choose to eat a healthy breakfast before we leave the house as opposed to skipping breakfast or God forbid-eat breakfast at a fast food place.  We choose to pack a lunch and snacks for ourselves and take it with us for the day or we choose to leave snacks and lunch up to fate and buy them out of the vending machine or at a fast food restaurant or even worse we just skip them.

We choose to work-out after work (because it is our scheduled work-out day) or we choose to skip the gym because we just don’t feel motivated to work-out today.  We think maybe tomorrow will be a better day.  If we chose the work-out path, we also choose to take our BCAA's and recovery drink while we are working out and then we get a solid meal in us within 30-45 minutes after workout.  We then choose to head home and prepare for wind-down and the next day.  We choose take our calming supplements, get our stuff ready for the next day and relax before bed.  We then choose to be in bed by 10pm at the latest, because we love regimen and we know what lack of sleep does to ourselves.

If we chose to skip work-out our night might be like this:  we choose to go out to eat and watch the game.  We have some nasty restaurant food that does not satisfy our nutrient needs.  We choose to let a friend talk us into having a few drinks, which is horrible for us and expensive.  We choose to stay out later than we planned, simply by choosing not to go home when we should.  We then choose to go home and watch some TV to unwind before we fall asleep.  We choose to fall asleep in front of the TV around midnight and then we don’t want to get up in the morning because of that stupid choice last night.  Of course we did not choose to get ready for the next day, or take our calming supplements because we were a little buzzed and off regimen.

See where I’m going with this?  It’s all about little choices that add up to good days or bad days.  So many times I hear people say “I had the worst day, I had bad luck all day today.”  Since I’m guessing no one else has said it to you, I will say it. 

YOU ARE MAKING BAD CHOICES, BAD LUCK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!         Dawn