1/10/14

Days 5-7

Progress not perfection.  Cliche, yes.  But even fairy tales have rhyme and reason sometimes.  I fully intended to jump into this plan of completely healthy eating and press through the entourage of enticing flavors.  I caved.  Oh well, my path will look more like a maze.  I"ll still make it to the end, the path will just look a little different from what I originally had in mind.

I definitely notice the difference, though, from when I'm eating healthy and when I'm consuming junk.  My energy level, my intention, my motivation, and my overall sense of well-being are diminished when sustaining the latter.  It can be fun, though.  Which leads me to ask myself if health is sometimes balanced by tipping the scales a little.  Not the scales with numbers, but the one that reflects the balance between good and evil.  Sometimes being too far on any one side may have the reverse effect if you overcompensate for it later.  It' s possible that easing into the change of lifestyle is all part of the process.

Then again, I only made it to day 5.  I want to experience what it's like to make it past the point of craving unhealthy things, and just be completely and totally healthy.  Is there even such a thing?  People who have progressed to that level are often referred to as "granola munchers".  It's funny how at any given point in life, someone on the outside could attempt to classify you into a group so definitive as to be simplified by one descriptive term. Or when the so called experts bombard you with contradictory evidence that each side arguing a potentially harmful or helpful ____ (fill in the blank) is right.  Sun is good-sun is bad, carbs are good-carbs are bad, prescription drugs are safe-prescription drugs can kill you.  I think the key is moderation.

And God.  Maybe I am trying to do this too much in my own strength.  Maybe I am not leaning enough on God, and stumbling is a way to show my weakness, so that He can shine through and show His strength.  Well, only one way to find out...