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When the first bite is the last...
It has happened so many times. Typically during the holidays, but sometimes just everyday life. I will go out to lunch or over to visit friends or family and I will be faced with a choice. To eat and "be like everyone else" or make the healthy choice I know I need to. Usually, I am doing well and loving my raw goodies with no cravings or suspicions that I am teetering on a ledge. So I reach for a piece of bread with butter or order that pasta dish I love so much, thinking one bite, one meal, just one won't matter. I enjoy my meal, sometimes not feeling quite so great afterrwards and sometimes feeling fine. I leave completely committed to returning to my yummy raw food but the next meal comes and somehow it is easier now to reach for the old food, and easier even the next time. The first bite of cooked food was the last bit of raw for a day, or a week, sometimes months. Has it ever happened to you?
Or maybe with a workout? You have a great routine, exercise you love and are dedicated and then one day - WHAMMO life hits you and you don't exercise again for the next week, or month or longer? And you left your workout that last day not having any idea that would be the last time for so long?
Maybe you talk to a dear friend on the phone and truly enjoy your conversation and the blessing of their friendship and then because of schedules, or children, or work or all of the above, you don't visit with them again for ages it seems.
As I reflect on my crazy whirlwind life, I am struck by the times I forget to truly value, to really appreciate each moment with people, activities and yes, even food that I love. So many times I have a conversation with a dear friend with one eye on the clock and two thumbs on my Blackberry. I workout completely distracting by all the other things I "should" be doing rather than enjoying the blessing movement and fitness doing something I love. I eat without thinking - forgetting momentarily the bliss of living enzymes infusing my every cell with life and energy and getting lost in habits of the past.
This holiday season I will consciously appreciate each moment, focus fully on each conversation, savor each bite of life giving goodness that passes my lips. Won't you join me? Leave the past to the past, the future where it belongs and remember always that we are creating our "good old days" right now! This day might be the day you remember with fondness when you hair is gray (or blue teehee) and you are chatting over tea with your friends about "remember whens".
All my love from the Pure Market kitchen to you and yours this Thanksgiving! We are grateful for YOU!
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