{"id":1010,"date":"2017-03-01T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spccrochester.wordpress.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2019-06-06T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:43:24","slug":"the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spcc-roch.org\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"The Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Shared with us <\/em>by: Clarice Lazary, LMSW (Outreach Coordinator for SPCC’s WIC Program)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Journey<\/h4>\n

March is National Nutrition Month. So, naturally, a WIC Nutritionist would be the logical choice to write the blog.\u00a0 A Nutritionist knows how to \u201ceat right\u201d and \u201cbe healthy\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 We have all heard it before\u2026eat less, exercise more, and make it a life style.\u00a0 But, eating and \u201cbeing healthy\u201d is harder than it sounds.\u00a0 In today\u2019s complicated, busy, hectic world it can be so overwhelming that we tend to decide \u201cI just can\u2019t do it\u201d, \u201cI don\u2019t have time\u201d.\u00a0 But, I have a feeling, like so many other challenges we face, \u201cbeing healthy\u201d is a multi-layered, life long process.\u00a0 So, at the risk of offending our professional, well educated, very experienced SPCC WIC staff, I am going to share with you my views.<\/p>\n

Living healthy is a commitment, an activity, a lifestyle, a group activity, a personal goal.\u00a0 It can be about eating right, cooking right, exercising, just moving, clearing our minds, taking a slow and mindful breath, breaking bread together, eating our guilty pleasures and ENJOYING them occasionally but more often than not, getting back on the \u201cgood food\u201d wagon, again.<\/p>\n

All my life have I struggled with weight\u2026but WAIT – that is a WRONG statement!! I used to be skinny!\u00a0 So skinny, that my family called me \u201cbeansy\u201d (I think that means tiny).\u00a0 And then, puberty and all the emotions and doubts that come with it, enraged itself upon me. \u00a0I had an average body in adolescence but thought I was fat (when I look back at my high school yearbook I think \u201cWhat was I thinking?!\u201d).\u00a0 But my family controlled my food.\u00a0 Where I ate, what I ate, what kind of foods I ate, how much I ate, what I was \u201callowed to eat \u201c (no soda except on Sunday with Pasta, only homemade cookies and only 2 a day, and no candy).\u00a0 All good choices, mind you, but not the environment that could be sustained for a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Then I went away to college and started eating on my own.\u00a0 Oh boy\u2026I was NOT prepared!\u00a0 So much \u201cbad\u201d food to indulge in!\u00a0 I remember a lot of pizza, fried foods, cookies and candy!\u00a0 I attempted to eat healthily and ate a lot of salad, but with tons of dressing which tends to defeat the purpose. Ever since then, I have been on a twisted and turning journey of weight gain and loss.\u00a0 Each time for a different reason.\u00a0 But, each time I learn a new coping mechanism or new trick that I like or a way to avoid an old habit, or introduce a new one.<\/p>\n

Being healthy, for ME, is a journey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are many people I know, where \u201chealthy\u201d is a lifestyle.\u00a0 Call it genetics, self-control, smartness, but I have had to take the long road.\u00a0 I am still on the trip.\u00a0 I probably won\u2019t get there for another many years to come.\u00a0 I have hated a lot of it, but I really love some parts a VERY lot!<\/p>\n

I know that I am not alone in this journey.\u00a0 Our lives are filled with challenges and choices that we all make.\u00a0 Some come easier to others.\u00a0 I have chosen to nourish my life with loving friends and co-workers and a giving husband and healthy happy children.\u00a0 I have learned to accept what comes my way.\u00a0 The good and the bad.\u00a0 I have learned to enjoy \u201cgood\u201d foods and figured out ways to share them with others and break the cycle of \u201cover eating\u201d at holidays and at social gatherings.\u00a0 I appreciate that moving and exercising with people that you like, makes the torture of working out a better thing.<\/p>\n

But back to this complicated hectic world and National Nutrition month. We will feel better if we nourish ourselves, nutritionally, physically and spiritually.\u00a0 We have to prioritize health over the other chaos in our lives.\u00a0 Baby steps.\u00a0 I am at the toddler stage in my life, and I only have about another 30 years left!\u00a0 I better start running soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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