Eating mindfully
I love eating good food. Starting from a good, saucy, cheesy pizza to a fine dry-aged steak.
Now, I would be lying if I said that I don't eat food to make me feel better. I do. And sadly, that happens quite frequently. If I have a stressful day, there's nothing better than a good old pizza.
But what happens then? I feel like shit. In this case, I feel like shit because I've consumed my daily intake of calories in one take and I've consumed a lot of carbs and fat in one go. I call this reward-eating, where you are "rewarding" yourself for a productive day. And that's not good.
Then, there's also mindless eating, which in many cases happens while I'm working on something or doing something in general. My mind is deep inside the task I'm doing, but my body, on autopilot, orders takeaway or grabs snacks from the shelf.
In many cases, the food I'm ordering/snacking mindlessly, is food that is a shitty source of energy.
So why am I writing all of that? Because it's easy not to notice what kind of food you are ingesting. And food is pretty much the fuel for our body, nothing more.
If you put gasoline into a diesel engine, you won't have a fun time. So why do we constantly put shitty fuel in our bodies?
It is important to distance ourselves away from cravings we get for good food, and start looking at it as just food, or even better, fuel.
Imagine the store, your fridge, your shelf being like a gas station. You arrive at the gas station with your new Porsche. You won't pick the same fuel that goes into an old VW Golf. You'll pick the best there is because you know you'll get the best performance out of your Porsche with it.
That's the way we should start treating our bodies as well. When you enter the grocery store, search for the fuel that gives you the best performance. Don't settle on subpar quality fuel because there is zero benefit in it. And in the end, it might cost you expensive maintenance bills & in some cases, the loss of your highly-admired Porsche.