You open the fridge and stare blankly at what's inside. There are so many choices! Or, if it's the day before grocery day, many...um...creative options. But nothing jumps out at you and your mind finally forms the question your stomach was growling all along: what do I want to eat?
What do you want to eat? Really? If you could have anything right now, what would it be? You're probably of thinking something sweet like jelly donuts or cheesecake. Or maybe a rich steak dinner. Yes, yum.
Now, what you will feel like after you eat it? Will your triple fudge chocolate brownies turn to roiling indigestion? (Pop a few Tums!) Will your extra rare steak sit like lead in your stomach? (Not to mention add a few pints of extra blood.) How about if you've just crammed a "super healthy" meal down your throat and it's threatening to come back up?
You know the drill: eat X amount of servings of dairy, grains, meats, vegetables and an itty bit of sugar a day. But what the food pyramid and any diet plan can never tell you is just how truly unique you are. Absolutely unique. Your body is not one of a cookie-cutter set of duplicates programmed to follow a set of rules, it is an intricate and beautiful work of art, a home for your self. What you eat does not make you who you are, but it can help or hinder the shining of the you who's inside.
What you do and do not want to eat matters. What your body, your deep, inner, nutrition-craving body, wants to eat really matters. Listen to your body. It knows you quite well enough!
