I love food. I love talking about it. I love learning about it and I love tasting it. Over the last few years I have also learned to value it in a way that I hadn't before. I want to know how food makes me feel and what kind of lasting effects it has on my body.
As a yoga teacher I have trained myself to be attuned to the mental and physical fluctuations of my personal health and to become my own little mad scientist. I have an experimental spirit so it comes easy to me to play with food combinations and observe my physical reactions to them. Plus, there are some things that I already know about myself that I have known for a long time, like No Jalapeños! However sometimes, I still ignore my own hard-won knowledge and have a second cup of coffee or add a couple dashes of hot sauce. The thought is so exciting it is irresistible, but inevitably it is a Bad Idea.
This kind of close attention to your body can get you pretty far in terms of learning what your body needs and what it only begrudgingly digests. But you are not on your own. There are plenty of sources of wisdom to guide you including your doctor, Ayurveda (the ancient Indian health science), innumerable websites and your aunt Sally. Much of the time these sources all happily agree and sometimes they totally don't, which is why the first step is to get to know yourself first so that you can follow your internal compass and lay off the jalapeños!
As a yoga teacher I have trained myself to be attuned to the mental and physical fluctuations of my personal health and to become my own little mad scientist. I have an experimental spirit so it comes easy to me to play with food combinations and observe my physical reactions to them. Plus, there are some things that I already know about myself that I have known for a long time, like No Jalapeños! However sometimes, I still ignore my own hard-won knowledge and have a second cup of coffee or add a couple dashes of hot sauce. The thought is so exciting it is irresistible, but inevitably it is a Bad Idea.
This kind of close attention to your body can get you pretty far in terms of learning what your body needs and what it only begrudgingly digests. But you are not on your own. There are plenty of sources of wisdom to guide you including your doctor, Ayurveda (the ancient Indian health science), innumerable websites and your aunt Sally. Much of the time these sources all happily agree and sometimes they totally don't, which is why the first step is to get to know yourself first so that you can follow your internal compass and lay off the jalapeños!
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