—Meredith Novak
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Joyfully health-filled
"It's often more helpful to kids when parents step back from focusing on the kids' health and focus on their own. Focus on being joyfully health-filled rather than grimly health conscious."
SandraDodd.com/meredithnovak
the quote is from the middle of this Always Learning post
photo by Sandra Dodd
SandraDodd.com/meredithnovak
the quote is from the middle of this Always Learning post
photo by Sandra Dodd
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When my naturopath urged me to go on a very limited paleo-like diet to help with some long-term metabolic disfunction I've been experiencing, I hated it. I spent about three weeks grimly following it, feeling deprived and crabby. Finally, I realized that it was more important that I be happy than eat perfectly. I began to eat small amounts of a grain or dairy or other "prohibited food" if I really wanted it.
ReplyDeleteThen I ran across a blogger's challenge to eat the full 8 food-pyramid-recommended servings of fruit and vegetables each day. It was so much lighter and more fun to think about creative and tasty ways to eat more fruit and veggies. I ended up on almost the same diet but with a much happier experience of my day.
As a side note, my 13-year-old daughter and I discovered that we loved sharing a giant artichoke every evening. How fun is it to eat a flower?!
Eating in sorrow is never good for digestion. :-)
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Nice post. For a bit of light relief you might enjoy this cartoon about the food pyramid. http://caroleschatter.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/food-pyramid.html
ReplyDeleteCarole's cartoon. It's worth seeing.
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