Listen to your body!

Hi everyone,

I have to warn you: mini rant coming your way. But this is just something I feel so strongly about I decided it deserved a blogpost of its own to increase awareness of this subject! This is something I had to learn the hard way, and that’s listening to your body!

We are constantly bombarded with different diets (many of them completely opposite) and weight loss programs. And it can be really confusing to people. I personally believe that every human out there should be eating a wholesome and real food based diet; but what foods to include or avoid within that concept is completely up to you! And yes, I do think there are certain diets that will probably fit a lager scale of people , just because of the way our human body is designed and evolution ( not going to be making any further comments on this just because I don’t want to argue about such minor things) but that doesn’t not mean it will work for everyone!

We tend to see someone, following a certain diet and hear them talking about how this is the right diet for everyone and we should all be eating this way. They seem healthy, so we automatically assume it’s gonna work for us and drastically change everything we’re doing, trying to get this certain way of eating to work for us? Just because it works for someone else? If a certain diet, lifestyle or way of eating is making you feel good and increasing your health than do it, embrace it and follow it! But if not, than don’t!! I spent years trying to force a certain way of eating on my body and justified it with: “well it works for x, y and z, and the reasearch supports it blablabla”.It doesn’t matter whether science supports this theory or that; if it makes you and your body feel good, that’s all that matters. We are all biochemically individual and completely different. To most of us it’s obvious that we all have different looks and genetic makeup, yet we expect one diet to work for all of us!? We are all just as different and unique in the inside as on the outside and no one diet fits all.

The traditional diet of the people in the rainforest was mostly plant-based with lots of fruit and natural sugars and only small additions of healthy fats and protein here and there. The natural diet of inuit or eskimo people however was mostly fats and proteins from fish and meat, with little to no carbohydrates. These two cultures couldn’t have had a more different diet, yet they we’re both thriving and had reached a level of ultimate health….on completely different diets!

What I’m trying to say is that just because one way of eating works for someone doesn’t mean it will work for you. One thing I think we can all agree on though is that all of these diets are based on real, wholesome food. I don’t think anyone should be eating things like high fructose corn syrup and refined flour. It makes me sad to se how many conflicts and arguments there is in the real food industry. Paleo vs. Vegans vs. Weston A Price vs. Atkins bablbabla…Why can’t we just all get together and combine forces to spread the word on real, wholesome food instead of arguing about such minor things and what you think is best for someone else. Imagine how many people’s live and health we could help drastically improve if we all worked together? Spreading the word of wholesome food and helping people find the right diet for them and their body based on their personal needs.

Credit for JERF goes to the amazing Sean Croxton from Undergroundwellness

Anywho I personally definitely think that EVERYONE can benefit from a real-, whole food diet. What foods to include and in which amounts however is completely unqiue to you and your body. Try different things, experiment and don’t forget to enjoy this amazing journey! Let your body, your feelings and your mental health be your guide to finding what works for you. I don’t know what’s best for you and neither does x, y and z. Only you can know that. Yesm it’s good to see what works for a lot of people out there and looking at research but trusting that blindly? And listening to what someone else sais instead of your body? No! It’s good to find out what works for others, to see if you can implement the same things and rep the same benefits. But in the end effect all that matters is if it works for YOU, and nothing else. And the best way to find out if it does? Experiment!

Have a lovely and healthy day guys, xxx

Yasmin