Day 170

So, I come home from a long day and go to the fridge and also peek into the pantry looking for something.....an answer. But food is not the answer to the question.

Day 169

WFG focus's on our spiritual relationship with food. We seem to have lost this connection because of our technological pace. Frankly we move to quickly. One-Hundred years ago our lives centered around food, plowing the fields, planting the seeds, weeding, fertilizing, harvesting, storing etc. And then at the end praying thanks for the gift of its nourishment. This was a tough and simple way of life.

Now technology has made food so accessible in the first world, I feel like I am forever fighting the vending machines who are ever present and calling my two children as if these machines were food temples. Imagine if we replaced the vending machines with prayer stations--the aethists would go crazy but I wonder how much it would effect obesity?

I think we should have 3rd world countries filled with vending machines, but the food would be free and of course healthy. That would go a long way to end starvation. I would like to calculate how much all the vending machines could help countries that are starving.

Getting back to the point. The author of WFG is really calling us to see the Eucharist in food. She does not say that. My assumption is that using that word would not be PC. But I will use that word. Food is the doorway to the soul. Food used to be a celebration. Now meals are an inconvienance, an inturruption like going to the restroom. It is another task that we need to get done to get to the next task of the day.

And folks, that is not healthy. Meals are the first place we need to find our souls, our families. Family is what we measure our lives by, especially when we die. Family is the only tangable physical thing (being) we leave behind. Family transcends time in the physical world and meals are the alter, the unifier of the family. Meals are where we are a family. We learn about eachother's days. We help eachother. We teach each other about transformation. We love.

Day 168 The Eating Guildelines via WFG

Here are the simple Guidelines:

1. Eat when you are hungry.
2. Eat sitting down in a calm environment. (This does not include the car.)
3. Eat without distractions. Distractions include radio, television, newspapers, books,
    intense or anxiety-producing conversations or music.
4. Eat what your body wants.
5. Eat until you are satisfied.
6. Eat (with the intention of being) in full view of others.
7. Eat with enjoyment, gusto, and pleasure.

Plus one that I add (for now):
8. It's OK to leave food on the plate and even throw it away.

Day 167 I Have Returned

Yes, I am still alive. Where oh where did William go? I have been distracted and failing with my goal. I have had to take another approach. The last go around stopped much to short of the goal.

So yes I finished Women Food and God (WFG). And I have been working through the book bit by bit, chapter by chapter reviewing and typing out all my highlights and making personal notes to myself about subjects, lines etc that strike a chord.

Bottom line is that the book opened up my eyes to things that must change in my life in order for me to get back to where I belong--health wise.

WFG ends with 7 Guidelines which I am committing too. You will see them tomorrow. I am writing them out as one blog so that you can see them and focus on them.