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Is "eating healthy" hard for you?
I hear this a lot.
I'll be honest, "healthy eating" isn't difficult at all.
I can think of at least 20 things immediately, off the top of my head that is much more difficult.
On a side note, I'm relatively picky with words and tend to not say "healthy eating" as it looks different to each of us.
For example, I'm in a reasonably intense training phase and tend to treat myself as an athlete. Therefore, my nutritional structure is much more dialed-in compared to someone who just wants to feel good, and have good health.
But anyway, enough semantics. Back to "healthy eating."
Don't let yourself slip into that limiting belief.
"Healthy eating isn't difficult." What makes "healthy eating" difficult is everything else.
Your emotions, relationships, business, and stress, among many other things, make "healthy eating" difficult.
"Healthy eating," in conjunction with those other everyday entities of life, becomes even more difficult when you refuse and/or avoid to settle the various conflicts that sprout up in those different life categories.
90% of food problems aren't food problems. It's merely life problems using food as its disguise.
The 10% of food problems include having gene variants that skew your appetite and satiation hormones crazily along with having variants in neurotransmitters like dopamine that need closer eye-inspection.
Now, I have no research on this, only real-world experience and observations. But when I had clients or readers who told me they had a "sweets problem," that "sweets problem" was a mask for them being stressed and having some underlying conflict that needed settling.
This is one of the big reasons why many are struggling with their health and fitness during this quarantine.
When you're experiencing lots of stress, negativity, and uncertainty, you'll inevitably throw out a distress signal. This distress signal typically arrives in the form of comforting foods. Hence the "Quarantine 15", "Pandemic Pounds," and "COVID Curves" are born.
Everyone knows not to go crazy on the sweets, the slices of bread, the sodas, and [insert your go-to vice], but they do it anyway.
Not because they don't care about themselves. But because people's minds and emotions are all over the place.
Again, I have no "official research" on this. This is just based on observation, talking to people, and further getting to the root cause of their situations.
You aren't just what you eat. You are what you digest. The more I listen to people talk, monitor conversations on social, and observe people when I'm out—achieving optimal health is way beyond "clean eating" and squats.
It's much bigger than that.
You digest not only food but also emotions, thoughts, people's energy, and the information you give your attention to.
If you have weak (and erratic) digestion, then your life becomes erratic.
And then the unpleasant life moments arrive, and the sweetness of life becomes more bitter. Finally, you need to sweeten up life, and that's where comforting foods come into play.
"Healthy eating" isn't difficult.
Life makes "healthy eating" difficult.
Settle the conflicts lurking inside your head and life.
As Rumi states: "It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."
But if you want help on this journey… to move through it as quickly, and painlessly as possible while developing an infectious swagger for icing on the cake…
I can be your guide.
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Stay awesome & be limitless,
- Julian
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