Nutrition 101: The process of taking in food and using it for growth, metabolism, and repair. Nutritional stages are ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, assimilation, and excretion. FRICKING BORING RIGHT!

🥑🍗🍆🍳🧄🐟Foods that naturally are nutrient-rich include fruits and vegetables. Lean meats, fish, whole grains, dairy, legumes, nuts, and seeds also are high in nutrients. OF COURSE, DON’T FORGET THAT ALOT OF NUTRIENTS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM HERBS AND SPICES! LIKE WHY AM I HERE LOL?!

🤔So much of the information we see and hear about nutrition and “healthy eating” revolves around the nutrient content of the foods we eat. While I don’t want to suggest that that doesn’t matter at all, nourishing our bodies well is about SO MUCH MORE than that. It honors our whole being, not just our physical self. And, limiting our understanding of “good nutrition” to vitamins and minerals, types of fats and quantities of added salt/sugar, can actually interfere with our ability to take good care of ourselves.

🥰MY APPROACH TO BEING HEALTHY IS MORE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FOOD.

🤩As a former behavioral teacher/therapist I highly believe in food as a REINFORCER AND NOT PUNISHMENT.

🧐Explore new foods, new ways of preparing foods WITH SPICES , new restaurants, and different cuisines. Approaching food with curiosity and wonder rather than fear and rigidity can really transform how we feel about and relate to food. GIVING ourselves PERMISSION to approach food as something to LEAN IN TO rather than something to control can mitigate the judgment and guilt that we associate with food and open us up to new foods, even “healthy” ones, we never knew we could or would enjoy!

Love more and Laugh alot.
Eat well and Move around.
Life is a Blessing so Live it right!

XoXo Patty your Spice Coach and Lupus Warrior