Pizza, McDonald’s, All-You-Can-Eat Sushi...
They say that you are what you eat, and thinking back over what I have been eating makes me feel pretty sick. My favourite food was anything that included carbs, specifically pasta, and it really has been doing nothing positive for my health. I constantly felt sluggish, lazy and unmotivated to do anything, and I am pretty sure that the disgusting amount of carbs and sugar that I had been consuming might be to blame. It also didn’t help that veggies were my enemy and I was lucky if I got a single serving of fruit or veggies each day.
What I needed was to rethink my approach to food. Sure, all that junk I was eating before tasted good, but it definitely wasn’t good for me. The life changing idea for me was to recognize that food should be used as fuel for my body, not to comfort myself after a bad day.
The vitamins and minerals in foods like lean meat, leafy greens and colourful fruit would provide my body with the energy it needed to get through the day, without needing an energy drink pick-me-up at noon.
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I began to make gradual changes to my meals throughout the day. My favourite and easiest change so far has been making an energy packed breakfast smoothie and changing up the ingredients so that I don’t get bored. Frozen fruit such as mangoes, peaches, raspberries, strawberries and bananas are excellent additions to any smoothie.
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