Conscious Inner Transformation

I love fruits and veggies and was a vegetarian for seven years before I got back together with my now husband and we had a son.  Since then, I’ve pretty much eaten what was easiest to cook and as I know my husband loves meat and rice dishes, we had a lot of those over the years.  Along with that, I’ve got the tendency to overeat what really isn’t the best for my body (sugary, starchy, fatty foods) and gradually stacked on excess weight.

As I said in my post Eating Transformation, I’ve recently wholeheartedly started to choose foods based on their nutritional value, especially micronutrients.  Dr Joel Fuhrman has written some great books around the science of this, and I’d recommend them.

If you’re like me, you’ll just love Fuhrman’s recipes as they are.  However, if you’re more of a meat person, a salt person, or a kid who likes chips and biscuits – or you’re cooking for one, then you might be interested to see how they can be enjoyed by even the most staunchly resistant person!

I want to add here that I recognize that some people are quite resistant to change and when it comes to food which is known and loved, changing a diet can be quite challenging, even when one knows that the alternative is healthier.  I don’t believe in pushing change.  This can be counterproductive and where someone may be slightly open to slowly experimenting with a new way, shoving a whole new paradigm in front of them – whatever area that may be in – can have the effect of putting the person off, and in some cases seeing them become more entrenched in their old patterns.

For me, changing to a predominantly plant/fruit/nuts/seed based diet is like coming home.  The difficulty for me is producing it for family members who at the moment prefer something else.  A part of my individual makeup is a deep emotional desire to see people around me happy.  So if I’m going to introduce a new eating plan to those who I love, I want to do it slowly enough that they are happy with the changes – 1. so they accept them and move to greater health and wellbeing and 2. so I sense this change as a smooth transition.  Obviously I’m learning to live with the discomfort of actually being able to sense other peoples’ discomfort, rather than trying to keep them happy – but that’s another area of discussion, that I’ll write about in another post!

Long term we all know eating natural foods as per a Nutritionist (term by Dr Fuhrman) is a better choice.  In practice, it is a little more of a delicate operation!

So, in the next post, I’ll share some of my experiences of feeding my boys (husband and son) with the dreaded greens!