You Are What You Eat: Part 2

The best way to eat healthy is to avoid fast food and heavily processed food at all costs. Foods that come in boxes with fun pictures and advertisements like, "Fat and Sugar Free!" may seem great at first. Then check the expiration date. If it doesn't expire for the next year, it is most likely made with chemicals that your body does not digest correctly. Check the ingredients as well. High fructose corn syrup, artificial ingredients, coloring of any sort...these are the kind of things you would make crafts out of. They are not want you want to be filling your body with. A lot of people might hear that and call it liberal hippie crap, but there is a reason that obesity is linked to fast food, sodas, and junk food. IT ISN'T REAL. That's why it's more expensive to eat healthy and fresh foods. Fresh food cannot be as widely distributed because it will go bad. Next time you go to the grocery store, take a look at some of the ingredients in packaged foods. If you ask me, the extra money for real food is well worth it!

Here is day 2 of my food log blog.

Tuesday, June 2nd:

Breakfast:
-1/2 glass of coffee sweetened with Stevia (all-natural sweetener)
-4 hard-boiled egg whites

Lunch:
-16 oz. pomegranate tea
-2 scoops vanilla Herbalife meal replacement
-2 tsp. cinnamon

Afternoon Snack:
-Outshine strawberry fruit bar
-bottle of water
-2 tbsp. natural almond butter

Dinner:
-6 oz. honey-lemon roasted chicken breast
-1/2 cup steamed broccoli and carrots

Evening Snack:
-2 tbsp. natural almond butter
-32 oz. lemon tea
-4 strawberries

**These posts are to help people achieve or begin a healthy lifestyle and lose weight in a nourishing way. This was not written to completely bash processed foods-- our way of life would not be sustainable without the wide distribution of processed and genetically modified foods. However, because we live in a country that has been blessed enough to give us options, we all have the option to eat processed foods or more natural choices. Choosing the natural foods is scientifically proven to produce better health and weight loss results in people who are striving to obtain such goals.