FOOD FOR THOUGHT - OA OCTOBER

[MajestyJo]

Monday, October 27, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

A Good Meal

A good meal for us is an abstinent meal. Fancy frills and gourmet delights are not good if they threaten our abstinence. Because we have over emphasized food in the past, we tend to be too concerned about what we will have for dinner - and lunch - and breakfast.

It is a relief to come to the conclusion that whatever we have to eat is good if it fits our food plan. We do not have to spend a lot of time and energy deciding what we will eat today. If what we choose does not turn out to be especially pleasing, we are free to choose something else tomorrow.

Most of us are familiar with the basic principles of good nutrition. By abstaining from compulsive overeating, we are giving our bodies the best possible treatment. By avoiding refined sugars and starches, we eliminate empty calories and choose those foods with the protein, vitamins, and minerals necessary for good health. Whatever we eat, the abstinent meal is a good meal.

Thank You for good, abstinent meals.

When I see the words "abstinent meals" I get a picture of a fancy gourmet meal that you see on the cooking channel." It looks "Ladeeda" but always figured there wasn't much there, all fancy, and almost too pretty to eat and thought more before I even took a bite.

They say attraction rather than promotion, but it didn't work for me, I was a meat and potatoes kind of gal having been raised on a farm, and I wanted my meat, lots of potatoes swimming in gravy and/or butter. The veggies were there too because we grew them, but the farther I got from the farm, the more difficult it was for them to find their way to my plate.

I have trouble eating bread that is full of bird seed and veggies that look like grass that I use to feed the cows.

What I found it was the portion size and making healthy choices. Most things don't come out of a box or a can and if they do, reading labels as to the content. Eating fresh foods and as they say on the Food Network, support your local farmer. An ex-boyfriend gave me heck because I use to go to produce sections to see what was marked down at the back of the store.

Check those food that are white that turn to sugar like corn, that can raise your blood sugar. A treat is good, but don't spoil yourself rotten.

Remember that our disease is four-fold. What kind of food are we food are we feeding that part of our body?