Breakfast: Bacon, eggs and steamed green beans. (My go-to ratio is three strips of bacon and two eggs, by the way!)
Now, be forewarned: This is going to be a serious post.
I realize I’m extremely lucky that I have all the time in the world right now to focus on healthy eating and cook my own meals. Practically no one has this kind of time! It would be much, much harder to transition to Paleo eating while working or going to school or staying home with children.
There are plenty of people who don’t have time to eat healthy (or exercise). Those who do these things don’t magically have extra time; they go out of their way to make the time.
It sounds much easier than it is. I’m not saying it’s easy at all. But I’ve come to realize that it’s so, so incredibly important and it is unacceptable to brush it off by saying, “I don’t have time.”
The way I look at time is this: We have time in each day and in each week. Then we have our lifetime. The way you spend the short-term time is a big factor in determining the amount of time in your lifetime.
If you don’t take the time now to take care of yourself, you will probably live a shorter life. If you don’t put healthy, nutritious foods into your body, it will not last as long as you’d probably like.
(It doesn’t have to be Paleo food — I won’t presume that I, as someone who has absolutely zero formal education in health and nutrition, could tell you what is the ideal way to eat — but it does have to be more real food and less processed, sugar-laden crap.)
It is no small task for your body to continue functioning on a day-to-day basis. If you don’t give your cells and tissues and organs the vital building blocks they need to thrive, they will break down sooner rather than later. It’s that simple.
Do you want to look back at the end of your life and think, “If only I’d taken the time to… [eat right, exercise, etc.]”?
To me, it’s not, “Oh, but I’d rather eat these crackers and chips because they’re quick and easy and vegetables take too long.”
It is life or death.
And, once again, I realize that I am incredibly privileged right now to be able to buy good food and cook it and take pretty pictures of it. There are way, way, way too many people who work very hard and either can’t or feel like they can’t afford the money and time it takes to eat real food. It is not fair in the slightest.
But there are many of you who can do it with some extra effort. You have to realize the importance of it. You have to make the time.
It is life or death.
Dev on Running 