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10 Minute Thoughts - Food for Thought
Embark on a heartfelt odyssey with me, as we navigate the treacherous yet enlightening waters of nutrition and self-perception. Have you ever considered the profound messages we send ourselves with every bite we take? My exploration draws on a biblical lesson in moderation, shedding light on how the act of eating mindfully can enhance leadership and act as a cornerstone of self-care. We'll sift through the murky repercussions of indulgence, from the seductive grasp of alcohol to the deceptive allure of fast food, and how these choices can cloud our judgment and strain our relationships. It's an invitation to scrutinize the mirror our diets hold up to our self-worth, and to embrace the healing embrace of nutritious food, hydration, and sunlight as foundational pillars of self-love.
As your companion on this journey, I open up about the tug-of-war within us all—the yearning for personal growth versus the siren's call of the comfort zone. Together, we'll dissect why we sometimes hold fast to the familiar, even when the path of improvement beckons. Self-accountability and trust in oneself emerge as the twin beacons guiding us through this introspective voyage. The episode crescendos with a challenge: to reflect deeply, and if needed, to extend an olive branch to oneself. An apology to your own being may just be the key that unlocks a realm of unstoppable progress. So, I invite you to join me, and let's step into a world where our choices nourish not only our bodies but our very souls.
Hello and welcome to Go Ask Sawyer. This is Jamie, your host with our new season of 10-Minute Thoughts Today food for thought. I went out for a walk this morning with my dog and we did a little bit of run-walk. I've just been frustrated with my physical exercise ability recently in the last six months. Physical exercise ability recently in the last six months and today's thoughts just came from the food that I have been putting in my body, and so we're going to dive deep into. What are you putting in your body and what is that saying? What are you saying to yourself through that?
Speaker 1:To start us out, I saw a reel, because I get a lot of my ideas from Instagram a reel, and I can't. I wish I could give credit to the woman who posted this, and I now I can't remember who and of course, I didn't write it down, but she said to every woman who is trying to be an entrepreneur, every woman who is trying to build their own business, be independent. God has written a blueprint in Psalms 31. So I went to it and here's the part that I pulled out that I thought was just interesting Psalm 31, 5 to 9. It is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer Least. They drink and forget what has been decreed and deprive all the oppressed of their rights. Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish. Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly, defend the rights and poor and needy. So what I took from that was in order to be our best selves, our entrepreneur selves, our independent selves, our clearest selves, we should not indulge in, and this specifically says beer and wine. But I'm going to go a little bit deeper today, into just anything that you're overindulging in, that you're putting into your body.
Speaker 1:Food says a lot about how we feel about ourselves, and I want you to think back to times in your life where you have felt the best times in your life, when you have felt the worst, when you have felt the most powerful, when you have felt the most weak. What were you putting into your body and were you paying attention? So food says how we feel about ourselves. The worst we feel, the shittier that we eat. The best we feel, the more we pay attention to what we're putting in our bodies? Are we going to fast food a lot and again, I have nothing against fast food. I love a great Culver's double cheeseburger and everyone knows my favorite place is around the corner from my house. But when I am not paying attention and I'm relying on fast food to get me through, am I really showing myself how much I love who I am? Am I really showing my body how much I love me?
Speaker 1:Overindulging in anything that numbs our mind alcohol, sugar, weed, fatty foods, prescription pills, anything of that sort causes fogginess, causes skepticism, causes overthinking, causes stories that are not there, and again, I love all of these things. So please do not think that I'm saying I'm above because I love all of these things. But when are we overindulging in places of our life? When we're trying to quiet the voices? Overindulging in places of our life when we're trying to quiet the voices, when we're trying to push down feelings? When are we overindulging with things that, in a way, we're telling ourselves, our body, we're not worth it? We're not worthy?
Speaker 1:I'm going to put all of this junk in myself. That's going to make me feel stressed, maybe bloated, my clothes aren't going to fit right, which is going to decrease my confidence. My thoughts are going to be a bit foggy the more I indulge in alcohol. We'll just say I'm going to say things that are not really me. They're coming from a different place. I'm not going to be as focused, I'm not going to be as clear. Prescription pills are really going to put you in a whole different place in and of itself. And why are you doing that? What are you telling yourself? When you are doing that, when you're numbing or shoveling food into yourself, you're telling yourself you're not worth it, you're not valid, your feelings are too big to deal with, or maybe you need to be punished, or maybe you aren't valuable enough to treat with the best foods, the cleanest foods fruit, vegetables, proteins, water, sun, people. Remember, we're all plants, we're human plants in just a skin suit. We need lots of water and we need sun. What are we telling ourselves when we overindulge? We make more impulsive decisions and we don't pay attention to how our words affect other people around us.
Speaker 1:And although we all, as I've literally been talking about in the last, however many episodes how people treat us is how they feel, it is the same for us, especially when we are putting things in our body that are allowing us to just project, that are allowing us to throw words out and not see how they are affecting other people and, yes, those people can pick up the words or put them down, but we are still responsible for what we're saying. I used to know a girl who would just spew everything she had in her face and she wouldn't think about it. She'd be like, well, see, I'm being open and vulnerable and it's like, no, you're not, you're just throwing out words but you're not actually even taking responsibility for what you're saying. It's one thing if you throw out a bunch of words and really stand on them and they're your beliefs and they are your values, but when you're just throwing them out there and not even taking responsibility, that's not being vulnerable at all. That's being do, I want to say weak, and a lot of times, food or lack of the right food, lack of water, lack of sunlight too many things numbing us. Too many times we've pushed feelings down, force us to make those decisions.
Speaker 1:Think about those people in your life that emulate light, beauty, shine. And I'm not talking about sexy, like ooh, that girl's super sexy, or boy, but I'm talking about when you get together with that person and their thoughts, their feelings, their inside just radiates. How do you think? Or maybe this how do those people show up, how do they speak, how do they treat themselves? How do they care about themselves? Why do they have such a light? What are they doing? That is, why do they have such a light? What are they doing that is creating that kind of light?
Speaker 1:So I've been thinking about this recently because I have been overindulging in many things Fast food, pinot grigio anyone that knows me knows I love it fries and I've been noticing I'm just I'm less motivated or I'm foggy, or I put more things off, I procrastinate more, and I've been trying to figure out why I've been doing this and how eating the right foods really starts that cycle of how you show up for yourself and how you trust yourself, how you build that trust. So what I want you to think about is what happens on those days or the days after when you are unintentionally eating, unintentionally drinking, unintentionally laying on the couch all day long. How do you feel the next day? Are you getting things done? Are you proud of yourself? Are you feeling clear-headed? Are you feeling whole? How does it feel differently when you eat good, when you have your balanced meals, when you've had enough water, maybe you've gone for a walk. How are you thinking differently?
Speaker 1:I feel like when I'm putting the right foods in my body, I'm telling myself I am worthy. I am worthy of every single thing I want, and when I am not, I'm showing people that, although I want to be treated to the highest level, I don't even treat myself to that highest level. So why would I expect them to? What are you saying to yourself and I'm not saying like the outside world, but like literally to yourself in the relationship with you when you're not paying attention to how you're fueling this one body we have for as long as we're here on earth? When we're saying, ah, it's okay, I'm going to put this in my body, even though I know it's not going to make me feel good. I'm only on the couch for two days straight, even though I know my hips are going to hurt tomorrow and I've gotten nothing done?
Speaker 1:How are you showing up for yourself, starting with your nutrition, and as simple and like it's just food, as simple as that sounds, that is really the whole cycle of where it starts. How you treat yourself is how you show the world how to treat you when we tell other people I want you to treat me well, yet you don't treat yourself well and you don't even stand on what you want. You're telling other people I'm going to accept subpar because I treat myself poorly and I accept it. If we don't treat this one body this one being that we have, to the highest level, how is our first relationship, which is the relationship we have with ourself, how is it strong? What food are you putting in your body?
Speaker 1:And it doesn't need to be a diet or vegan or paleo or any kind of crazy stuff. I've done all the things. It doesn't need to be that. It's more of being intentional. You can have taco bell three times a day and then go out drinking at night, but I can guarantee you you're not gonna feel great and you're telling yourself you're second. You're telling your body and your mind yeah, you're second, because whatever I'm trying to numb is more important. Whatever I'm trying to push away is more important. Start with you. Start with building that relationship with you and a lot of that I promise you is going to start with water and sun, because we are all plants, and then it's going to start with what we're putting in our body.
Speaker 1:Pay attention, it's again, not even just alcohol, it's sugar. There is sugar in everything. That could be a whole different episode, but it is sugar which spikes all sorts of things in our brain and then causes us to crash. How are we over indulging in things that we don't need to be? And I am not immune to this popped in my head today, because I am doing this right now and I'm trying to figure out why.
Speaker 1:The why behind it is because I know when I walk the correct way, when I really am living the life that I want to live and I step into there, there's other things that are going to have to go away, and there are certain things about this comfortability that I'm not ready to get, that I'm not ready to give up yet, and I think the question there is why, if I want better, I need to do better, but why am I still hanging on to something that's comfortable? So, as you leave today, as we wrap up our episode, I just really want you to think about what are you putting in your body? What is that relationship Like? How is that building a strong relationship? And maybe you might need to circle back and apologize to yourself and restart, because once you show up for you and once you build that trust with you, you are just unstoppable. Have a great day. I hope this 10-minute thought resonated with you. If not, maybe next week. Bye.