livin' a nutritious, balanced life

Hey everyone! Happy Sunday! I'm really enjoying writing and just speaking to you guys through my blogs and website, and I really pray that you're ENJOYING reading along, and that you're feeling God's unwavering presence through this platform. Today I just want to talk about nutrition and a balanced diet; the struggles and the joys that come from this sort of lifestyle.

Personally, I've always been very passionate about eating healthy. I've always been so excited when choosing nutritious recipes and meals at restaurants or in my home; chicken salads, smoothies, sushi, smoothie bowls.... that's where it's AT! I just really love finding healthier options. Don't get me wrong, though, I definitely loooove unhealthy food, too. Pizza, Parmesan on pasta, ice-cream (especially magnums!). I love all of that.... but, there's just something so... ah! amazing! about how I feel after eating healthy, wholesome foods. After eating a salad... or a lunch bowl (which I will post more about later on), I really feel just so refreshed, so energised, and radiant. Also, there's just those simple advantages of being leaner, fitter and having more muscle. This is why I've just always chosen the healthier option.

Now, like I mentioned in my previous blog post, I can be very 'perfectionistic', and so when being healthy, I started finding myself immediately feeling completely bad after eating something unhealthy. I would spend all day feeling horrible about eating that one unhealthy thing, and would end up binge eating, thinking "Ah, well, I've eaten one biscuit, so I may as well just eat ten biscuits now..." I'd then think, "Okay tomorrow I'll start fresh again with being healthy." Can ya relate?!

Well, just thinking like that is such an unhealthy cycle and outlook on food, because you associate enjoying a sweet-treat with being a 'cheat' or as having 'fallen off the healthy journey' and 'that's it'... and that's so not true. Eating a biscuit does not make you "fat"... God says that what He blesses to our bodies, no-one can curse. In the Bible it says that we can taste and see that the Lord is good, oh the joys of those who live in His presence. God prepares a feast for us in the presence of His enemies. By 'feast', it means anything and everything delicious that you can think of, whether it be salads and smoothies, acai bowls and lunch bowls or pizza, burgers, pasta... everything. God prepares it for us with open arms and blesses it to our bodies in the presence of our enemies.

This is how I have begun combating the unhealthy thought process... every time I eat something unhealthy, as a treat, I tell myself and speak over myself that what the Lord blesses to my body, no-one can curse. He says that I can taste and see that He is good, and I eat that magnum, or that choc-chip biscuit, and then I continue with my nutritious eating, because actually, enjoying treats and sweets here and there helps maintain the longevity of that healthy lifestyle. If you tell yourself that you can never even touch anything unhealthy, it trains your brain to think that if you do eat something unhealthy because you just can't resist, you may as well give up and start again, and you end up binge eating... it just becomes unhealthy.

I'm still working through this journey, I'm not perfect. I haven't yet reached the stage where eating something unhealthy doesn't bother me at all; sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, but I really do just feel such comfort in knowing that what God has blessed to my body, He has blessed to my body... and I really just want to encourage you that eating is beautiful. Eating is fun. God intended for us to eat and we should eat. He didn't only intend for us to eat salad, He gave the people who came up with the donut recipes their minds and ideas, and so we can enjoy all forms of food... it's just about knowing how to find the balance, and knowing that if you eat one biscuit, it's not the end! Juuuust maybe don't eat ten... (been there done that, though!)

That's what I wanted to encourage you with today, guys.

Happy... whatever day it is! #lockdowntime

grace charlotte

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