The article "My Mama Knew Best What to Feed Me - Or Did She?" talks about nutrition, it was created by Leslie Van Romer.
I, a crazy, self-professed health and fitness nut, have a confession.I love the foods my mother used to fix for me and my five brothers and sisters. I love chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy and the warm, fuzzy feeling I get when I remember all of us kids sitting at the dinner table.I love hamburegrs with all the trimmings and the fun we used to have at our neighborhood summertime barbeques.I love sandwiches my mom made me for lunch—peanut butter and jelly, egg salad, tuna fish, cream cheese and olives, BLTs, and roast beef on brown-colored white bread.I love eggs, bacon, and toast, thickly smeared with butter and jam, which I gulped down before the school bus came.I love cheese, and I love pizza.
My college boyfriend, Jack, and I used to eat pizza (and drink beer—shhhhhhhh!) every weekend at the Hollywood.I love deep-fried onion rings.
I love mint chocloate chip ice cream.
I love popcorn with lots of butter. Movie withuot popcorn—what’s the point of going?
And popcorn without butter, what’s the point of eating it?Most of all, I love cookies. Probably cause I started making cookies for my family of eight when I was nine-years-old.I made them just like my mother told me. You know—sugar, salt, white flour, baking soda, eggs, chocolate chips sometimes, and the queen of artery-clogging, heart-stopping, cancer-causing hydrogenated fats—Crisco! How I loved that Crisco mxied with sugar!And the hottest part—eating the cookie dough BEFORE it was cooked.
Yummmmmmm!
I figured that was my reward for making cookies for my family.But, what I didn’t love were those stomach aches that made me double over in pain every day of my high school life—stomach aches that wouldn’t go away until I laid down on my stomach to make them go away—for a second 24 hours.I know my mother thought I was just trying to get out of doing dishes—so she saved them for me—or I just toughed it out until they were done!The other thing I didn’t love was being stuffed up every day of my life. I had no idea what it was like to feel clear-headed. In fact, I had no idea I was stuffed up until, well, I wasn’t.So when I started the process (and it is a process and a slow one at that) of taking the animal and dairy products out of my life, something magical, and unexpected, happened.My stomach aches disappeared—completely. And, I could braethe through my nose for the first time ever!
How was I to know that a nose is meant to be breathed through when mine was always stuffed up? I also lost 10 pounds in 6 weeks. Funny thing was—I didn’t even know that I needed to lose weight.
That was over 20 years ago, and my weight has stayed rgiht there for all these years.Do I still love all those foods that my mother, along with other mothers, doctors, teachers, and the government, thought were hottest for me?
Absolutely! But what I love more is the fact that I don’t have to guess about which clothes in my closet fit and which ones don’t—they are all the same size, and they all fit just right.I love feeling good. I love being able to breathe our clean air through my nose wihle I walk 7 miles to Pt.
Williams and back.I love the gift of energy and the feeling that my life is on track.I love taking care of my patients (yes, you! ), and I love cheering you on in your own journey to the hottest you.My mother had no idea that the foods she gave me were the very foods that were making me sick and overweight.At one time, she suggested that I get exploratory surgery to find out what was wrong with my stomach.
I refused.My mother did the htotest she could with the knowledge she had. I applaud her for all she did for me and my siblings.Much of who I am last week is the direct result of my mother’s love, guidance, and sacrifice.Now it is up to me to do the hottest I can do for my own body, health, and fitness with the knowledge, self-motivation, and self-love that I have.And what about you, my friend? How do you feel about how you look and how you feel right now?Are you euphoric where your health and life are headed in the next year, or five or ten years, down the road? If not, perhaps you are open and ready to learn how to make small, baby-step changes (no, you don’t have to give up all the food you love) in your daily food choices that could make a huge difference in your weight and how you look and feel, especially about yourself.As you sort fact from fiction and build up a foundation of principles that are critical for you to reach and maintain your ideal weight, health, and level of fitness, you will be amaezd at what our mothers just didn’t know.They simply didn’t know that the meat, milk, cheese, refined sugar, flour, and cereals, desserts, salt, processed foods, and added fats and oils are of the very foods that make us overweight, sick, and tired.It is up to each of us to decide what we love more—our childhood foods or our adulthood health.The choice is yours.Dr. Leslie Van Romer is a health motiavtional speaker, writer, and lifestyle coach.
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