Family Diet

As I have mentioned before in my blog, proper nutrition is important to me. I think what we eat and how its prepared is important, may be more important, than we think. What we eat makes who and what we are, diet effects metabolism, brain chemistry, and a host of other things. If your brain chemistry is out of whack how can you even be competent to know it. It's a bit troubling to think about really. If I feel depressed because of the food I am eating I will most likely be uninterested in improving my diet, or doing the research to find out how to, leading to further depression and an even worse diet. People that are depressed aren't as likely to feel like cooking up a nutritionally complete meal, more often it's back to the box or T.V. dinners, causing a further downward spiral.
Diet is a four letter word to a lot of folks, but all it really means is the food you eat. It shouldn't represent the shackles manifested in the mind at the mere thought. It would most likely serve us well to avoid the word all together if we can't separate it from our preconceived notions of its implications. Extracted from its much boasted, feared, and commercialized hype I use it here out of convenience.
If we pay a little attention to our diet we can, in a lot of cases, eat as much as we like, instead of making ourselves suffer what we perceive as a form of torture, or martyrdom. In fact I will go so far as to say, by making ourselves suffer we only heap more problems on ourselves. What I mean here is, the human body still "remembers" its primal roots, it responds to hunger by storing up fat, eating muscle, and slowing metabolism. Several of us fight courageously day in and day out to do what we think are the "right" things only to be discouraged time and again with the results. (roller coaster diet anyone) For some reason we seem incapable of seeing the insanity of doing the same things over and over again expecting different results. We operate out of what we believe to be true without proper evidence to support it. Freedom is knowing why you believe what you do because it's your choice. Not something everyone else is doing or programmed into your mind by clever marketing hooks.;)

Continue educating myself

Using what I learn I can provide a better standard of living, and health to my loved ones, those whom I live with, and others. I find the unique advantage of being a stay at home is, I can control my time. If I had a regular job I would have to focus my time and mental effort there instead of here. I enjoy the ability to concentrate on the things I think of as important instead of following some arbitrary (to me at least) company policy. As long as I do things that contribute to the life of myself and others not having a regular jobby-job is justified. It all comes down to whether or not I am making myself and those around me happy.

Life is a journey not a destination