Kim May's Fitness and Nutrition

We are literally being terrorized by our food these days. Everyone is confused about what on earth is really healthy for them to eat. Many people are simply giving up and resorting to eating whatever they feel like eating, others are starving themselves half to death, and then there are those who are doing their best to sift through the conflicting information and make their choice based on what they intuitively feel is best for them. This latter option would be my recommendation for sure. Of course, the only really bad foods for you are those foods that you “BELIEVE” are bad for you, because then, they are.

As Paul McCartney once said, “All we need is love,” and he was right. It may sound cliché, but I truly believe that there is simply nothing that cannot be resolved through the process of love. Abraham taught me long ago that there is no dark switch. In other words, we do not expect to walk into a room and flip a switch so that dark, inky mist will remove the light. Of course not … there is only a light switch or the absence of light. The same is true of love. There is love present or there is the absence of love. There is not a power of evil. There is love present or its absence. There is no power of disease … there is the presence of health or the absence of health. It was a monumental point in time when this truth really sank in, and I could actually embody it. I found it to be a life-changing event.

Many of us look into the mirror and our eyes seem to go right to those areas of our bodies that we are least content with. I’m unclear as to whether this is simply a human characteristic or if we have trained ourselves to focus on the negative while disregarding the positive. In any case, it has been my experience that any time my habit is to focus on the negative, it will serve me greatly to find a new way of viewing things. It’s a new year and a perfect time to re-evaluate our fitness goals and the way we view our bodies. Certainly they do not revolve entirely around how we want to look on the outside, but there is a little vanity in all of us, and that’s okay. Allow me to offer a few suggestions as you embark on a new year of fitness training.

Our bodies are amazing, magical and brilliant mechanisms that are communicating with us all the time. The question is, are we listening? It may sound ridiculous, but I'm not kidding … we can feel how well our bodies are ingesting our food by the way we feel a few minutes after we finish. Are you feeling stuffed, content, bloated, sleepy, energized, relaxed, or do you experience heartburn or acid reflux ? Do you feel revved up, only to drop like a stone an hour later? These are only but a few examples that come to mind, you get the idea. These examples are messages from your body to your brain, communicating its reaction to the foods you are eating. I really believe that if we make a concerted effort to listen to what our bodies are saying to us, we can learn a lot about what fuels (foods) our bodies most prefer. We can learn this and so much more if we become willing to retrain ourselves to listen to the clues being sent.