On your best days, you might have brought a frozen "healthy" dinner or maybe you grab a salad from Panera. On bad days, it's popcorn out of the office vending machine (the light kind!). Diet Coke in the afternoon and then it's time to head home. On soccer and dance class nights, you grab another energy bar or drive everyone through the local fast food restaurant. You order off the light menu - that's healthy, right?
And, still, you are dragging tired as soon as you stop moving (which is usually when you take a seat to watch that night's practice or game). Piles of work - whether for your corporate job or for your household - are waiting. Where are you going to find the energy to get through it all?
Have you lived this day - maybe even over and over again?
Here's a secret (credit to JJ Virgin): your body is not a bank account; it is a chemistry lab. What you put in is not all equal, and it all causes a reaction. The reaction you want is for it to create more energy. With your diet, it probably isn't. But who has time to fix it? Doesn't that take lots of time and studying?
Sure, it can. Or you can use a few very simple rules and stick to them always. Try these for a week diligently (and I mean no exceptions!) and see how you feel.
- Eat real food. Limit your packaged food to almost nothing. Your goal here is to get off the chemicals and preservatives. No matter how healthy the option is, it is still processed so it has been altered.
- Eat more volume. This doesn't mean eat more period. You are actually probably not eating a tremendous amount - you are just eating the wrong stuff. Load up on veggies and fruits. Put lots of spice or lemon juice to flavor it up. Plain ol' veggies can be a little boring.
- Drink more water. I am not going to tell you to get off of caffeine. Just drink more water too. I cannot live without my morning (and afternoon) coffee, so I don't expect you too!
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