What it means to Redefine Your Hunger:

Food isn’t what we think it is, mostly because we think food is either good or bad – applying some moral value that doesn’t exist. It can be both a drug and medicine depending on how we treat it. Food was created for our utmost sustenance and we can abuse it really quickly in these modern times or we can use it to our utmost advantage. What we think about eating has to change, because change is our birthright and our privilege. This is what I call redefining our hunger. Some change is out of our control – like aging – but other changes are – like how we live until we die. So what’s in your control? I’ll lay out a few of them and the rest we can discuss in person because you’ll come to see that your relationship to how you eat and your relationship to your body is very much like all your relationships and once you see how malleable one is, you’ll see how all of them are:

␥ You can control what you put into your mouth, who you surround yourself with and what kind of lifestyle you lead

␥ You can control supporting big industries who’s only incentive is to make money off your your addictive tendencies – and we all have them

␥ You can shape your appetite by ensuring that you eat regularly. Binging happens out of deprivation – same goes with spending; even for the frugal and saving, the excess shows up as compensatory elsewhere

␥ You can work a job and make the money it requires to afford the kind of nourishment you desire: if health is wealth then wealth is also health

␥ You are not a victim to the food industry or your parent’s habits – this is the beauty of epigenetics.

All bodies require a simple breakdown of fat, carbohydrates and protein in a fine but not overly complicated balance. Additionally we need antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and fiber to help sweep unnecessary substances from our digestive tract. These things aren’t hard to acquire if we eat colorful foods. Some foods cause irritation in some people so it’s important to be attuned to what those irritants are, dairy, gluten, excess fat and sugar are big offenders. It’s much wiser to address your nutrition before masking your symptoms with pills and prescriptions. Fads come and go and leave us either scarred or inspired. The literal definition of diet is: the sum of food consumed by a person. Weight Watchers, Intermittent Fasting and the Zone are trends that may help to inspire you to change what’s become habitual – they’re not panaceas. When we change how we eat our bodies and minds change in tandem – this is a synchronistic science. When we begin to feel better we begin to choose better. Which is why we should be open to redefining our lives whenever change beckons and that might happen often so live for yourself and not to appease anyone else.

– Katie