Relationships.

Today is one of my favorite days, it's rainy, cloudy, and cool while I'm writing this. Neil Young is spinning on the turntable and I got to workout with Paula and Jeff this morning. Throughout life we build relationships. You build relationships with family, friends, your spouse, your dog, just to name a few, but one of the most important relationships you will ever have is the one with yourself. Emotionally, physically and every other aspect of yourself. Having healthy relationships, especially with yourself, can determine how successful you are in anything. Let's take food for example, knowing that in order to live you must eat. But you want to look a certain way and that can lead you to making choices that might not be the best. My pregame meal the night before a football game in college was 5 Qdoba Steak Queso burritos. At that time I wanted and needed to be as big as I could be while still be in "shape" for football. My relationship with food was not a good one, I would justify anything I wanted to eat for the cause to bigger, faster, and stronger. All too often we look at food as the enemy, anytime we have enemies our guard goes up. This automatically makes the experience a negative one and then we have an unhealthy relationship with food. This leads to eating too much, not eating enough, or any other scenario where it's not positive. I'm thinking back right now in my house growing up where my mom was very overweight and struggled with eating. Drinking whatever drink she could to help her lose weight. Struggling everyday to get through life and never once thinking that maybe working on her relationship with food could solve the issues. Not trusting the food that could help her body to be healthy and fight disease but a drink that was magically going to do it. Eventually that toxic relationship won. Imagine how hard it must be to fight with food, something you need everyday, and have a bad relationship with it. I want you to think about your life and the good relationships you have. What makes those relationships good? Trust is probably a big factor. Think about the food you eat, can you trust that food? Can you trust that it will nourish your body and help you live a healthy life? If not, think about what you could replace it with that you could trust. Be more aware of what you eat and how it will affect your relationship with yourself. Find the foods you can trust and let them help you build a healthy relationship with yourself. You deserve to be happy with who you are. The older I get the more I realize how important your health is and being able to enjoy life with the people you love.