Bad Eating and Lack of Exercise = Bad Results

The last few weeks have been pretty tough for me; I have been having some difficulties with my daughter who is 17, yes that fun age.  I am obviously not in control of her like I once was and this is nerve wrecking because I am so used to guiding her and her just accepting it and following my lead. 

As a result, I ate horribly for a few days there, unable to control my urges and just made bad choices with food.  Although I continued to workout I felt bad both mentally and physically, I felt ugly.  

I woke up with headaches every morning, felt lazy, unmotivated and even began to consider just giving up my healthy lifestyle all together (yup it was that bad).  The bottom line is that I felt unable to dominate the situation with my daughter therefore causing me to lose control in other areas of my life and so depression began to crawl its way in.

Fast forward to this week when I decided to go back to eating healthy, the headaches vanished and suddenly that burst of energy and positive thinking reentered my body and I felt encouraged again. The situation with my daughter has not changed and yet I feel strong enough to deal with the issues without losing control.

This morning on my drive to work as I was “shoulder dancing” to Kelly Clarkson’s Heartbeat song (my favorite for the moment) I had an epiphany, I made that correlation yet again and it’s basically that what I eat is directly connected to the way my body will function and respond to life in general.  I know we hear that a lot and we nod our heads in agreement whenever we hear it but when you experience it it’s an entirely new ballgame.  I believe the longer you live a healthy lifestyle, the more you understand just how much food affects you in more ways than one and while I may slip every now and then, I am in control of my life now.   

This journey is a never ending one for me, I continue to stumble, learn and relearn many things and I am excited to do so because I know it is for my benefit.  I’m not perfect but I continue to push through the tough times because of that skinny state of mind I have. 

Bad eating and lack of exercise equals bad results, “but I know that already” is probably what you are saying as you read this and my response to that is…then why are you not making a change?  #foodforthought