Fake Food Non-Sense

For years I have been searching for "the thing" that will make me healthier and rid of those extra pounds once and for all. While many diets are successful for a time, they are hard to maintain and unfortunately I would crash and burn resulting in a few extra pounds than before I started. I've come to realize that what we deem as healthy and what is marketed as healthy may not be so healthy. This time around I really believe I have found "the thing" and it was right there all along!

So what makes me sure this time is different?? Well, it just makes sense this time, let me explain. I have finally settled on a new mindset about food; "food is fuel" and food has a very distinct purpose. Food is the fuel for my body to function, it is the fuel for my mind to run efficiently and it is even fuel for my soul. Since food is to nourish my body, mind and soul then I should seek out foods that provide the nutrition my body needs and wants.

In an attempt to live what I preach I have started my family down the path of what is known as "real-food," a concept which is at odds with our modern-day convenience driven society. Real-food in it's simplest form is food our ancestors ate. Food consumed for nutrition not convenience-honest food. It seems our entire society has been permeated with the idea that pretending to be the real thing is actually better than the REAL THING. Pretending to have more money, pretending to be someone we're not, and pretending to be perfect. We are so fake that even our food is fake!

Don't believe me…take a stroll through the grocery store; I challenge you to find even 5 items in their original state. Easy you might say? So NOT true. Take something as simple as milk, that should be the only ingredient right??? Wrong, check your favorite supermarket brand and see the added ingredients to your milk. I could go on and on with examples of foods which used to be pure, but are now chock-full of fake ingredients. Foods that we think are healthy choices are perhaps making us sicker.

Now before you think my soap box has become too high let me reassure you it is a process. There are things in my cabinet which I LOVE and sadly could not be even remotely called real-food. So here's to living a more honest lifestyle and for me that begins with food.