Realistically Good

Do you like to indulge?  A lot?  Do you like to keep healthy and always do the right thing for your body?

I currently wave through both of these, my alignment to the healthy becoming more balanced and less strict so that when I do indulge it’s not always so fierce..  We’re human, we have many parts to us that need satisfying, much like our tastes in foods; sometimes we need salty sometimes we need sweet.

Especially if one is a woman and has a monthly cycle of hormones to contend with, the potential ups and downs, feeling perhaps the need to take in more calories during one or 2 weeks; our bodies go through a lot of changes constantly (male or female) so it’s important to listen to the signals for what our body and perhaps our minds may need in terms of nourishment or release.  We LOVE dark chocolate in my home, it’s our main vice, but for 1 week of the month I don’t need it, for another week I crave it, and thus consume more to keep in alignment with what my taste buds and body are calling for.  Yes it contains sugar (although not too much in 90% dark) and lots of fats but these help me fight the pangs of potential PMS and it feels nice (check out the science on that..).  In my opinion, so long as it’s not every day we scoff what’s ‘bad’ for us and that we still eat our fresh fruit and veggies; maintaining a good vitamin and mineral balance; it can be beneficial to give in and accept what we crave at times.  There’s value in EVERYTHING we do, relaxing into it ensures we can potentially find out a bit deeper why we desire certain things; watching these desires is sometimes also key to releasing them IF they don’t actually serve us.

Regret serves no one, if you ate those several chocolate bars, drank that wine, smoked, didn’t exercise, whatever; relish in the comfort it bought you so you can choose more what serves you best in the current moment; regrets about the past simply takes you out of your consciousness about being here and now, how else can you tune into what it is you need in this moment?