Sluggish

We had a client come in a few weeks ago, who was visiting her family in the area. She lives in Europe with her two small children and husband. She was in town for 2 weeks, seeing old friends and grandparents and enjoying being in Idaho. She had also planned on running a half marathon while here, which is why she came to see us. The flights and strange beds had gotten to her a little. Anyway, she came in again on Monday after the big race.

“How did it go?”

“I didn’t finish.”

“What happened?”

“I got 5 miles in and felt so sluggish that I just bagged it.”

“You must be disappointed.”

“Yes. I trained faithfully for months and was ready. I’m not sure what happened. But I think it is my diet. I eat pretty clean in Europe, but it is so much easier to eat there. So much fresh stuff. And they don’t have so much junk in the food supply. My kids (they are little) haven’t slept well and seem sluggish too.”

This made me wince.  

Just guessing but maybe most of us feel sluggish most of the time and have come to believe this is normal. We don’t even notice. Like with a wedding ring, we don’t notice it or feel it after a while. We become habituated.

We do live in a time and place where we have access to and tend to consume plenty of our daily calories in these processed foods. The shelves of our grocery stores are 90% of this stuff. I’m not sure why the manufactures insist on calling these made-up products “food”. They are just calories and chemicals. Not nutrients. They are truly empty calories.

And calories supply energy. But real food supplies calories and nutrients. Nutrients are what cause your body to regulate, repair, grow, thrive. You really want to base your diet on how many nutrients you can cram into yourself. You will naturally eat less calories if you eat enough nutrient dense foods. Interestingly nutrient dense foods do not typically require a label telling us what is in them. Have you ever seen a label on an apple? A steak? An egg?

No explanation required. Nutrient dense.

Contrast that to a box of Chicken-in-a-Biscuit crackers.  Read the label sometime.  Enough said. (I do wish broccoli tasted like those crackers though!)  All calories and no nutrition.  “Food” like this typically requires some level of detoxification.  

If you feel that you may have become accustomed to feeling sluggish and need to get on track, Abbey just wrote a terrific blog on detoxification. I highly recommend you read it, assess your status, and act. A lot can be done in a short amount of time.

We are here to help.

Cheers,

ks

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