How and where do I do research?

I talk to all kinds of really great people as I am doing self research.  I know what happens when you stop eating something for 2 weeks because I have tested it out.  I also listen to a number of podcast.  The biggest hurdle I find that people have is that I think they along with me feel like they are walking the line alone. For this reason I feel that support groups and your biggest assets.   I too need a great support group.  I search out people that I can learn from and you never know where you are going to learn that gold mine bit of information.  If you think you will only learn great thinks from the experts you are missing out on a great support system.

I am all about concepts so when I talk to someone I really listen to what they are saying and keep asking how are they doing that?  I write this blog so I hope you can learn something from me.  Am I an expert? no!  I would like to be considered a doer but most of the time I am still a learner.  I am trying to figure out how the brain works and why do we think the way we do most of the time.  If I could figure out why we drown our sorrels in things like ice cream.  In the perfect world we would turn to our workout shoes when we have a rough day.  Is there a way to rethink things?  I keep thinking   there is.  I want my last entry to this blog to say I figured it out. 

I have to say I sure have had a great time talking to and learning from, I want to say that again, learning from.  I have learned from everyone and everyone has something to say.  One of the things I would to bring up is that I think we all have a problem listening.  We want to fast track what someone else is saying and we are not really listening or learning.  I have found that if the information someone else isn't directly bring us some kind of instant gratification we put it to the delete bucket in our brains.
I have to get to work so I can get to the gym tonight.  It is small changes that effects other things in our lives.  If I get into work at a better time I get out at a better time.  I just have to think of what my goals are and how I can reach them.  

What am I up to?

I am writing for my new book, finishing my research.

Let’s talk about what we can learn from others.  Never close your mind except for those people that just say everything in moderation as they live at the gym and are power lifters and still hang out at the bar half the night.  Are you seeing a couple of patterns in this statement?  Look at patterns for what they really are.  Some of them talk about how you can eat whatever as long as your workouts outweigh the calorie intake.  It is still a form of binge and purge.  This can be done with both food and liquids or liquor.  Really look at what the person stands for.  If your moderation limits sweets to 1 a day, this is not the same as eating pizza in moderation followed by ice cream, proceeded by a burger and fries.  But it was all within moderation and under calories.  Please tell me the nutrition level is in this list.  As I talked to someone at the gym she shared with me what works for her.  It is a small change for her but it is a change for the better.  It is what works for her.  My input was, keep it up.  You make changes as you see fit.  If you don’t have a reason to change things then you really don’t change.  But you lose weight so it is good right?  No!  This is one form of a yo-yo.  You want to be thinner for a vacation so you do it and gain it back, why?  Because you don’t have a real reason to change.  Her reason is for her health.  She is looking at what she eats because if she is putting this much effort into working out she isn’t going to do self-sabotage by eating crap.  You make changes when you have a need and not when someone else wants you too.  You do what works for you and you need to stand up and say, this works for me!  As long as it follows high nutrition I am on with it.

 I look at any addiction to be the same. Some people may say but you have to eat food as to drinking alcohol.  Let’s look at things again.  I say this a lot.  Let’s look because I want to look at things from a real objective point of view.   I want your input too.  Please e-mail me your thoughts.  I don’t just want you to read my opinion, I want you to think about what I am really trying to get to or say.  I want you to think.  It’s not until you see things for what they really are will you change you thinking and the statement of green chocolate candies have to be healthy because they are green.  With this thinking also healthy would be the stuff that has been in the refrigerator for more than a couple of weeks.

But you have to eat food is a real valid point.  I want you to have some fun by changing out the word food for nutrition.  You have to eat nutrition.  Now please look at the foods you eat and put them into categories of high nutrition, pretty high nutrition, mostly pretty good, just taste good, all out fun food.   Are you seeing where I am going with this?  Read your labels and make sure you are really looking at what’s in these items marketed as food here in our stores.  Another way we could look at food items, the TV tells us this is good for me, the TV tells me I deserve a break, the box says it’s healthy, or someone else that doesn’t read labels tells you it is good or you are missing out.  There is no “just tell me what to eat”.

Am I really hungry or could I just eat more?  I am having an opinion on this.  Think about how you eat most of the time, do you eat till you are 80% full, full or so stuffed that you have to take a nap?  Can you eat more? Should you eat more?  Should you go do something?  How is that life cleaning going or that I need to get done list?  You should eat till 80% full and do something.  Most of us in the US where I am seeing real health problems, mostly because I live in the US we follow the rule of eat till you can’t eat anymore.  I believe this is most of the time followed by I am never doing this again followed by I am starting my diet in the morning.

This is all a real head scratcher.  This is sounding like the pucker that says, I will never do this again only to be at the bar again the next day.  But you have to eat food.  No!! You have to eat nutrition.  Rate the nutrition in your meal are you eating nutrition or stuff? Stop eating stuff and eat nutrition but don’t get mad.  You have to either cook or really search to find nutrition but it is out there.  Write it down and remember what and where you ate.  I also want you to remember how you feel after.  Yes!! Track how you feel after you eat and refer to it so that every time you want to feel this way you learn how you have to eat.  You are missing out on nutrition to keep the body strong.  It all keeps coming back to really thinking at your goals for your health.  

I need to go get something done. Have a great day and replace food thinking with high nutrition.