Simplicity is Sweet

Simplicity is Sweet: Finally satisfying that sweet tooth is a huge accomplishment. Once you realize that it's possible the effort to get there is worth the price. Some of us have a hard time with sweet things. We walk by and they seem to call out our name. Those little morsels of fried dough and sugar with all the colorful flavors hidden inside just waiting for our mouths to explore. Is your mouth watering yet? Relax and have another cup of coffee while we explore the idea of "Satisfying that sweet tooth". We have all heard this common saying and yet have any of us ever really thought that it was possible? To be able to look those sweet temptations right in the eye and be able to say, "today you no longer tempt me and I can with great ease chose to not pick you up".

At our church on any given Sunday morning you can come in and be welcomed by warm smiling faces and have a cup of coffee, a doughnut or two, and or some fruit. I noticed a few weeks ago that as I stood there in the welcome area that all those tasty blueberry doughnuts were staring at me. I knew from past experience that those little sirens of temptations were singing there songs to me. But this time there songs feel silent on my ears. There in that silence as people all around me were talking, laughing and sharing life together, I felt this great sense of freedom. I felt that my life had actually become less complicated and that was a eureka experience for me.

In my quest for a more healthy lifestyle and changing my eating habits I came to realize that I had actually made my eating habits more simple. It was and still is a learning process to figure out what is and is not healthy to eat. But as it becomes more natural and just more of my own DNA it actually becomes, well, "Simple". I'm not eating things I don't like just so I can loose weight and on the flip side I'm not depriving myself of things I want. Actually I just started to make decisions about my food intake based on what I want out of life not just what I wanted out of that doughnut. I found out that there are things I normally eat that are healthy and then there are things that I normally eat that are not as healthy. All I really did was decide to eat the healthy items 90% of the time. To actually make those healthy items my "Go To" food choices. I really did not have to "Find" foods that I could stomach just so I could loose weight. I'm not "Depriving" myself of things I enjoy. I'm actually eating as many times a day as I want and I'm eating what I want. I would call that a "Simple" diet.

In this complicated world we live in it's nice to find some simple things that will actually improve your life. For me simplicity is the sweetest treat of all. When I feed my body what it "Really" needs it's not screaming at me to eat the things I used to eat just so it, "my body" can try to find something in there that it can live off of. I asked my doctor one time, "why is it that sometimes I have this uncontrollable craving for chocolate?" His answer, "Magnesium, you body is trying to find it and chocolate has a lot of it in there". My body was not craving "chocolate" but the substances in it that it remembered, where to get it. I told it that it could find "Magnesium" in the foods I usually ate. Now, my body finds what it needs in different things.

My advice, keep it simple and there you will find your sweet spot and actually satisfy your sweet tooth. If you need some help getting started check out my website, www.BeachBodyCoach.com/paulh

Just my thoughts

PH