Eating and Life choices.......

Dinner

Yeah. Dinner.

It's what we need. We all know it.

Choosing dinner is similar to life, isn't it?

Picking dinner can happen many ways:

1. Standing there with the freezer, refridgerator and pantry open, jsut waiting for something to jump out at you. You didn't think ahead or plan. You know you need to eat, you are hungry, but....still, you wait for dinner to miraculously prepare itself and be gourmet at that!

2. Still not planning wisely: you opt for crud. Deep fried, proccessed, full of nitrates whatever is quick and 'easy'. Knowing your body needs much more than that, it is just simpler to pull that out and nuke it.

3. Say forget cooking, I don't 'feel' like it....run to mickey d's, wendy's, burger king, or whatever fast food restaurant of choice. Or better yet, not even leaving your home...oreder in. Then complain that the service is slow, and the food is gross.....nice, huh? Then look in the mirror and wonder why you feel so icky.

4. You can plan ahead. I don't mean to be legalistic about it....give yourself grace for the days that you just don't have enough time, or the unexpected comes along. When you plan ahead you are achknowleding the fact that you know you will need to eat at some point. You also know that your body needs certain things to function properly, so in your planning you take that into account. You actively seek out the things you will need in advance and prepare for the time to come when you are ready to/need to eat. In this active state of thinking, planning and preparing you are working toward the goal of eating.

Now, I do all of the above.

But, 1-3 are rarities.

#4 Should be my norm. It will keep me and my family healthy.

Do you (and when I say YOU I am speaking to myself as well...) view life the same way?

Do you go through life looking at all the things around you hoping that something will just jump out at you and all of a sudden all will be fine?

Do you take the quick and seemingly easy way to do things, all the while having that nagging sense that you KNOW you could have made a better choice?

Do you not even do anything for yourself, but rely on others to make you happy and then complain when they don't?

Or, do you try to make the choices that you know will take more work and planning and doing on your part, but you know in the long run, it is what is best?

I am deciding today, to make #'s 1-3 more rare than they are in my life. I am choosing #4, because in the long run it will be what is best for me and my family.....