Finding yourself #8

         Healthy and happy looks good on you!

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In one of my last blogs I touched basis on trauma issues. Today I would like to talk about ways that can help heal from truma and mental illnesses. Its not always easy for people to understand their feelings and trauma they might have, but once you dig deep into your thoughts and issues your experiencing you will start to see the change inside of you which might be easier to get the help you need.

Once I have overcome my thoughts and realized that I might need a little more help than I'm receiving now, I have been able to accomplish and see my goals changing in life.

 

I wake up everyday not wanting to be sad and miserable, theres so much life to live and I don't want to miss out anymore than I have. After going through a hard separation of 11 years, I was able to get into therapy and seek the help needed to be able to move forward in life. I was able to learn that i was in a abusive cycle with my partner. Since opening my ears, mind and eyes I wake up each day looking forward to my day and knowing that I'm able to accomplish anything that comes to me.

I have started to find myself and enjoy doing things that I want to do; painting, reading, drawing, singing, dancing, skin care. Things I lost sight in when I had mental illness holding me back. Every person is diffrent and it might not be as hard or easy to over come situations as it would someone else, try to remebem,er that. Because how you heal may not be the same as someone else. I once heard a quote that stuck with me "The magic you are looking for, is in the work you are avoiding!" 

Now I'm able to start building different relationship rather thats with healthy family, past friends, or new friends. Im now able to maintain a healthy relationship with them as well, because I'm not always in my head or feeling like such a burden. It's okay to pick yourself before anyone else, it's a beautiful feeling to be able to love yourself. It's a beautiful feeling to be able to start to feel the relief and hope, you start t o see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

The convenience of food #9

                 Time Management is key

This week we will be talking about food and being able to find some great resources, tips and tricks. I’ll be sharing some ways I can make sure to keep mindfulness in what I eat to maintain and healthy lifestyle.

As we all know time gets away from us so sometimes it’s easier to be able to just stop at a fast food restaurant, or convenient stores to grab a meal, snacks, drinks, or anything else we may need.

 I know that with a full-time jobs, school, and being able to do things I enjoy like; going to the gym, spending time with friends and family, reading, and going on small dates with myself. I have to have a very structured schedule, that’s why I make sure Fridays after work I go to the grocery store to do my shopping for the week and Sundays I spend inside getting ready for my work week, I will be sharing some of my favorite tips, tricks, meals, and snacks I prepare in order to make my weeks more smooth. Sometimes it use to feel like a chore having to dedicate my Sunday to meal prepping and I found that you shouldn't look at it in that way, take breaks or separate it within the day its not due right away. Have fun!!! Dance around, listen to music, and find the enjoyment in making your meal to fuel your temple! 

 

As I know everyone is different and may not be able to take my advice, rather that’s timing issues, financial issues, or even different dietary issue, this is just what I do for my week.

I like to pick 2-3 meals to switch up for lunch and dinners for the week. I start by picking 2 main meats,  my go to is chicken and sausage or brats, you pick a veggie you enjoy, and then a carb I go with rice a lot of time (that’s just my preference). Throughout the week  you can add different sauces, or toppings you enjoy through the week. I will then pick out 2-3 fruits and veggie to have as a snack, I will allow myself to enjoy a soda or sugar free soda with lunch or dinner. This will help me from grabbing unneeded foods or snacks when I lose time of track and things start to become inconvenient because that’s usually when people find themselves falling out of line.

 

However I recently have found a website called Factor, Factor is a website that helps you meal prep for your entire family or just an individual person. You will go to this site and answer questions, they will ask you things about your goals you want to achieve and your body type. Then it goes into your dieter issues, or allergies you may have. Once that’s done they will have you discuss things that you may enjoy more than others or even things you don’t enjoy. They will make meals to your liking and be able to ship to your home, this is a good option for people that don’t want or cant meal prep, this is also a great way to stay focused on eating better without the inconvenience part.

There are other places like Hello Fresh , Flexpro , there are also places around the valley that you can walk into and build your own meals for the week. Those are for the people that don't have time to take the day for meal prepping. 

If you have the time to meal prep there's many way's to find amazing ideas  for your weekly meals a lot of free websites like Budget Bites , Atkins , and so much more if you google. However there are also a few places that you can buy weekly/ monthly memberships from that send you meal prep ideas with a grocery list. For that option you'll have to find your favorite place, since I have personally never used that. 

Fresh #7

                                              Fresh Video 

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The fresh video is wanting people around the world to see just how how much has changed in the farms, crops, and food sold in the stores. The farmers now have to use potent chemicals thats not good for the economy, people, for food. However this has to be done, because if you try to do it the natural way you wont be able too grow fast enough and the huge farms that was forces into factories will out grow and sell your product. Before they relied on natural traditional methods and manual labor, now with he advance technology thats how they are able to produce and provide a lot more, They use things such like; Drones, machinery, data analytics to optimize their operations.

With the animals they have to put antibiotics in them to help promote growth and prevention of infection. They also have changed their food that provides them with everything they need because better feed means bigger animals. They started too feed dead chicken and cows to their cows, when this happens theres a diseases that happened thats called “mad cow diseases” but thats not all when animals start eating their own kind or even other there many issue that come into play as in; E.coli, salmonella, A&B flu many more. They try to cover up the bad taste with sweetener and molasses in it, they do this because it's considered cheap feed.

Processed food are so bad and dangerous for you and your health, but its very advertised rather with healthy foods. Processed foods are extremely high in corn syrup, soybean oil, and many more bad ingredients. But because its convenient for people they much rather that, but they don’t see the bad behind it. This is causing many health conditions, and obesity around the USA and no ones doing anything to stop it, or care what they are eating. Not to mention that if they wanted to eat better foods, they many not have access to it, or because its natural It could be a lot more expensive. 

Before this video I had a big problem with certain meat I eat, iv been thinking about going vegetarian for a long time, I don’t eat read meat as is. After watching this Fresh video it makes me want to stop eating all meat completely. There is a problem in the different prices from healthy foods to processed food, its sad because there might be no other option to feed a family, some might afford a box of Mac and cheese an hot dogs then a fresh salad. To hear from the video and from a co worker of mine that fresh meat taste and look a lot different then the kind sold in stores scares me because you know they have to add color and steroids to display it in the store. 

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