You are what you Eat

so what are you feeding your brain?

How often have we heard "abs are made in the kitchen."

The good PTs will tell you the formula to losing weight or building muscle is 70% of what we eat and 30% of how we train.

For one cannot work without the other, they work in tangents.

If we want to achieve the desired results, we must make sacrifices.

That beach body for a holiday, or perhaps just wanting to live a healthier life.

The food we consume is generally the product of how we look and feel.

But not only do our digestive system and bodies need fuel to survive, but another part of our body, and somewhat more important, is our brains.

What are you feeding your brain?

What information are we taking on board daily?

From the books we read?

The news we watch?

Conversations we have?

To the people we tend to be around?

For all of these are so important to living a healthier life mentally.

To educate oneself in living a happier and more positive way.

There are more personal development books than ever on the market and different ways of viewing life differently than we have possibly been told before.

There are so many to choose from, different voices, personalities, or use of language until we find the ones that make sense to us.

Unfortunately, it takes more than just reading these books.

But within each of these books, there are many lessons to take, many practices to try, and so much information to digest.

And unlike fiction novels or other story books, these all have a different ending.

These books all have different stories inside them.

Even though the words inside are all the same, those who absorb the information and try them out on themselves will rewrite their own story.

This here is the work, and this is the development.

Unfortunately, a quick repost of a quote doesn't have more use than a few views or likes on social media.

Reading and studying the quote, or book of the page, sitting with it and understanding it, and putting it into practice, is where we will see the reward.

The morning mantras we read and forget by the time the next photo comes up on our feed need to be read over and over throughout the day, which allows us to believe them honestly.

The brain needs to be fed over and over.

Unlike our stomachs, who know when it has had too much, the brain will keep taking the information we feed it.

We all have been told fairytales growing up, believing that we would one day become a prince charming or princess that lived happily ever after, but these are fairytales.

Beautiful stories nonetheless, and probably wouldn't be so appealing had they read.

The princess, after years of addressing the trauma that troubled her for years and met the brave prince as he rode in on his horse after a session with his therapist.

This newfound awareness they discovered helped them live happily ever after.

I gave up the idea of me being Prince Charming after my only experience on a horse.

Let us say it didn't end well.

And I certainly did not act brave.

Those social media posts we consume ourselves in, where we block out the fact they are filtered or changed to make life look perfect.

Those hateful forums where people spread negativity about others, allowing opinions to be formed of people we do not know.

To the group chats where we witness others in a friend group commenting on someone's photo or outfit, this is processed food for the brain.

When we have patience and trust in the change in our diet and the training program, we see the results, and we see the hard work is worthwhile.

So to understand ourselves better, for us to see happier results in our lives, we must too need patience.

It will not happen in one chapter or after one book, and it will not happen with a repost.

This work also takes time, takes a lot of feeding of the same foods (information, language, people)

And in time, just like in the gym, the results will show for themselves.

As always, thanks for reading.

Marcus