10 Minute Thoughts - Food for Thought

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Embark on a heartfelt odyssey with me, as we navigate the treacherous yet enlightening waters of nutrition and self-perception. Have you ever considered the profound messages we send ourselves with every bite we take? My exploration draws on a biblical lesson in moderation, shedding light on how the act of eating mindfully can enhance leadership and act as a cornerstone of self-care. We'll sift through the murky repercussions of indulgence, from the seductive grasp of alcohol to the deceptive allure of fast food, and how these choices can cloud our judgment and strain our relationships. It's an invitation to scrutinize the mirror our diets hold up to our self-worth, and to embrace the healing embrace of nutritious food, hydration, and sunlight as foundational pillars of self-love.

As your companion on this journey, I open up about the tug-of-war within us all—the yearning for personal growth versus the siren's call of the comfort zone. Together, we'll dissect why we sometimes hold fast to the familiar, even when the path of improvement beckons. Self-accountability and trust in oneself emerge as the twin beacons guiding us through this introspective voyage. The episode crescendos with a challenge: to reflect deeply, and if needed, to extend an olive branch to oneself. An apology to your own being may just be the key that unlocks a realm of unstoppable progress. So, I invite you to join me, and let's step into a world where our choices nourish not only our bodies but our very souls.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to Go Ask Sawyer.
This is Jamie, your host withour new season of 10-Minute
Thoughts Today food for thought.
I went out for a walk thismorning with my dog and we did a
little bit of run-walk.
I've just been frustrated withmy physical exercise ability

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recently in the last six months.
Physical exercise abilityrecently in the last six months
and today's thoughts just camefrom the food that I have been
putting in my body, and so we'regoing to dive deep into.
What are you putting in yourbody and what is that saying?
What are you saying to yourselfthrough that?
To start us out, I saw a reel,because I get a lot of my ideas

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from Instagram a reel, and Ican't.
I wish I could give credit tothe woman who posted this, and I
now I can't remember who and ofcourse, I didn't write it down,
but she said to every woman whois trying to be an entrepreneur
, every woman who is trying tobuild their own business, be
independent.
God has written a blueprint inPsalms 31.

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So I went to it and here's thepart that I pulled out that I
thought was just interestingPsalm 31, 5 to 9.
It is not for kings to drinkwine, not for rulers to crave
beer Least.
They drink and forget what hasbeen decreed and deprive all the

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oppressed of their rights.
Let beer be for those who areperishing, wine for those who
are in anguish.
Let them drink and forget theirpoverty and remember their
misery no more.
Speak up for those who cannotspeak for themselves, for the
rights of all who are destitute.
Speak up and judge fairly,defend the rights and poor and

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needy.
So what I took from that was inorder to be our best selves,
our entrepreneur selves, ourindependent selves, our clearest
selves, we should not indulgein, and this specifically says
beer and wine.
But I'm going to go a littlebit deeper today, into just
anything that you'reoverindulging in, that you're

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putting into your body.
Food says a lot about how wefeel about ourselves, and I want
you to think back to times inyour life where you have felt
the best times in your life,when you have felt the worst,
when you have felt the mostpowerful, when you have felt the
most weak.
What were you putting into yourbody and were you paying
attention?
So food says how we feel aboutourselves.

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The worst we feel, the shittierthat we eat.
The best we feel, the more wepay attention to what we're
putting in our bodies?
Are we going to fast food a lotand again, I have nothing
against fast food.
I love a great Culver's doublecheeseburger and everyone knows
my favorite place is around thecorner from my house.
But when I am not payingattention and I'm relying on

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fast food to get me through, amI really showing myself how much
I love who I am?
Am I really showing my body howmuch I love me?
Overindulging in anything thatnumbs our mind alcohol, sugar,
weed, fatty foods, prescriptionpills, anything of that sort
causes fogginess, causesskepticism, causes overthinking,

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causes stories that are notthere, and again, I love all of
these things.
So please do not think that I'msaying I'm above because I love
all of these things.
But when are we overindulgingin places of our life?
When we're trying to quiet thevoices?
Overindulging in places of ourlife when we're trying to quiet
the voices, when we're trying topush down feelings?
When are we overindulging withthings that, in a way, we're

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telling ourselves, our body,we're not worth it?
We're not worthy?
I'm going to put all of thisjunk in myself.
That's going to make me feelstressed, maybe bloated, my
clothes aren't going to fitright, which is going to
decrease my confidence.
My thoughts are going to be abit foggy the more I indulge in
alcohol.
We'll just say I'm going to saythings that are not really me.

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They're coming from a differentplace.
I'm not going to be as focused,I'm not going to be as clear.
Prescription pills are reallygoing to put you in a whole
different place in and of itself.
And why are you doing that?
What are you telling yourself?
When you are doing that, whenyou're numbing or shoveling food
into yourself, you're tellingyourself you're not worth it,
you're not valid, your feelingsare too big to deal with, or

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maybe you need to be punished,or maybe you aren't valuable
enough to treat with the bestfoods, the cleanest foods fruit,
vegetables, proteins, water,sun, people.
Remember, we're all plants,we're human plants in just a
skin suit.
We need lots of water and weneed sun.
What are we telling ourselveswhen we overindulge?

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We make more impulsivedecisions and we don't pay
attention to how our wordsaffect other people around us.
And although we all, as I'veliterally been talking about in
the last, however many episodeshow people treat us is how they
feel, it is the same for us,especially when we are putting
things in our body that areallowing us to just project,

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that are allowing us to throwwords out and not see how they
are affecting other people and,yes, those people can pick up
the words or put them down, butwe are still responsible for
what we're saying.
I used to know a girl who wouldjust spew everything she had in
her face and she wouldn't thinkabout it.
She'd be like, well, see, I'mbeing open and vulnerable and

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it's like, no, you're not,you're just throwing out words
but you're not actually eventaking responsibility for what
you're saying.
It's one thing if you throw outa bunch of words and really
stand on them and they're yourbeliefs and they are your values
, but when you're just throwingthem out there and not even
taking responsibility, that'snot being vulnerable at all.
That's being do, I want to sayweak, and a lot of times, food

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or lack of the right food, lackof water, lack of sunlight too
many things numbing us.
Too many times we've pushedfeelings down, force us to make
those decisions.
Think about those people in yourlife that emulate light, beauty
, shine.
And I'm not talking about sexy,like ooh, that girl's super
sexy, or boy, but I'm talkingabout when you get together with

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that person and their thoughts,their feelings, their inside
just radiates.
How do you think?
Or maybe this how do thosepeople show up, how do they
speak, how do they treatthemselves?
How do they care aboutthemselves?
Why do they have such a light?
What are they doing?
That is, why do they have sucha light?
What are they doing that iscreating that kind of light?

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So I've been thinking about thisrecently because I have been
overindulging in many thingsFast food, pinot grigio anyone
that knows me knows I love itfries and I've been noticing I'm
just I'm less motivated or I'mfoggy, or I put more things off,
I procrastinate more, and I'vebeen trying to figure out why
I've been doing this and howeating the right foods really

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starts that cycle of how youshow up for yourself and how you
trust yourself, how you buildthat trust.
So what I want you to thinkabout is what happens on those
days or the days after when youare unintentionally eating,
unintentionally drinking,unintentionally laying on the
couch all day long.
How do you feel the next day?
Are you getting things done?

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Are you proud of yourself?
Are you feeling clear-headed?
Are you feeling whole?
How does it feel differentlywhen you eat good, when you have
your balanced meals, whenyou've had enough water, maybe
you've gone for a walk.
How are you thinkingdifferently?
I feel like when I'm putting theright foods in my body, I'm
telling myself I am worthy.
I am worthy of every singlething I want, and when I am not,

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I'm showing people that,although I want to be treated to
the highest level, I don't eventreat myself to that highest
level.
So why would I expect them to?
What are you saying to yourselfand I'm not saying like the
outside world, but likeliterally to yourself in the
relationship with you whenyou're not paying attention to
how you're fueling this one bodywe have for as long as we're

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here on earth?
When we're saying, ah, it'sokay, I'm going to put this in
my body, even though I know it'snot going to make me feel good.
I'm only on the couch for twodays straight, even though I
know my hips are going to hurttomorrow and I've gotten nothing
done?
How are you showing up foryourself, starting with your
nutrition, and as simple andlike it's just food, as simple
as that sounds, that is reallythe whole cycle of where it

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starts.
How you treat yourself is howyou show the world how to treat
you when we tell other people Iwant you to treat me well, yet
you don't treat yourself welland you don't even stand on what
you want.
You're telling other people I'mgoing to accept subpar because
I treat myself poorly and Iaccept it.
If we don't treat this one bodythis one being that we have, to

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the highest level, how is ourfirst relationship, which is the
relationship we have withourself, how is it strong?
What food are you putting inyour body?
And it doesn't need to be a dietor vegan or paleo or any kind
of crazy stuff.
I've done all the things.
It doesn't need to be that.
It's more of being intentional.
You can have taco bell threetimes a day and then go out

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drinking at night, but I canguarantee you you're not gonna
feel great and you're tellingyourself you're second.
You're telling your body andyour mind yeah, you're second,
because whatever I'm trying tonumb is more important.
Whatever I'm trying to pushaway is more important.
Start with you.
Start with building thatrelationship with you and a lot
of that I promise you is goingto start with water and sun,

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because we are all plants, andthen it's going to start with
what we're putting in our body.
Pay attention, it's again, noteven just alcohol, it's sugar.
There is sugar in everything.
That could be a whole differentepisode, but it is sugar which
spikes all sorts of things inour brain and then causes us to
crash.
How are we over indulging inthings that we don't need to be?

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And I am not immune to thispopped in my head today, because
I am doing this right now andI'm trying to figure out why.
The why behind it is because Iknow when I walk the correct way
, when I really am living thelife that I want to live and I
step into there, there's otherthings that are going to have to
go away, and there are certainthings about this comfortability

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that I'm not ready to get, thatI'm not ready to give up yet,
and I think the question thereis why, if I want better, I need
to do better, but why am Istill hanging on to something
that's comfortable?
So, as you leave today, as wewrap up our episode, I just
really want you to think aboutwhat are you putting in your
body?
What is that relationship Like?
How is that building a strongrelationship?

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And maybe you might need tocircle back and apologize to
yourself and restart, becauseonce you show up for you and
once you build that trust withyou, you are just unstoppable.
Have a great day.
I hope this 10-minute thoughtresonated with you.
If not, maybe next week.
Bye.