Brownvagabonder's Blog

For the longest time, I have been a really great eater. I eat well, and I mean, well. Better than most people I know. I eat healthy, without being crazy about cutting out meat from my diet. I find that eating Indian food in general, prepared at home by my mother is the healthiest way to go. Our family eats out rarely, maybe once a week, and usually we order some Caribbean Heat, which is a mix of Chinese and West Indian food, fried goodness. I eat a big breakfast, as soon as I wake up, in order to jumpstart my metabolism. Usually, whatever’s leftover from the night before, so vegetables, some chicken and rice, or whole-wheat pita bread. Or a big bowl of spaghetti. Something along those lines.

I have a smoothie during the day, with berries, milk, banana, protein powder, and recently, spinach leaves. I have a big lunch, again just leftovers or whatever’s in the fridge, maybe tuna sandwich. Dinner’s usually at seven or eight, and it is similar to the rest of the meals. I rarely eat sweet stuff, not being a fan of it. My weakness is potato chips, but my mum rarely brings them into the house, and I will not go out and buy them, so that solves that problem. I do not like milk, so I take vitamin supplements to balance things out.

But recently, reading the slew of superfoods that have come onto the market (where did they suddenly appear out of anyway?), I feel that my diet is sorely lacking in a lot of nutrients. I do not really get sick that often, but when I do, it lasts for a week, and ruins the whole balance of things in my life. I do not have any superfoods in my diet at the moment, no spirulina, no seaweed, no alfalfa. Reading about all of that, makes me really stressed out. But why? I mean, I am doing well enough, I have great genes and good food habits. I look ten years younger than what I am, my skin’s doing great, my hair’s shiny, my nails are strong, but I do have a weak immune system, or that is what my mother says. Maybe adding in a few superfoods, would fix that problem?

But what about the food combination stuff that is really in right now? Do not eat grains with meat, Do not eat fruit with meals, etc. I mean, I have never followed those rules, maybe following those rules would help with some of the bloating that I experience right after I eat a meal. It just seems weird to me, because I always eat grains with meat, and I always add in a piece of fruit after as a dessert. That would mean changing the entire way in which I have been living for the past twenty-seven years. That is a big change. Do you see why this stresses me out?

The key is to make changes slowly, small changes, slowly. I am going to add in some spirulina and sprouts in my diet, slowly, and then, slowly incorporate the food combination rules as well. Lets see how it changes the way my body reacts to the world. Maybe I will stop falling sick once a year with a horrible cold. Or maybe I will recover faster from the colds that I do get.