Out To Lunch

If you work at a regular job, say 8 to 5, and you go out to lunch every day, what choices do you make? How many times do you have a co-worker come up to you and ask, "Where do you want to go today"? If you are like our office, we basically have the same choices for lunch that are in our vicinity. You know, like pizza, hamburgers, sandwiches, salads, and of course...fast food. After a while it becomes boring eating the same thing over and over again.

You could change it up once in a while by bringing your lunch. Maybe you had some leftovers from the weekend and you pack it up and bring that. If you don't have leftovers and you want to bring your lunch then that means you have to go to the market and buy stuff to bring. In that case you buy something that is simple to put together so you don't have to make a whole thing of it. The downside to that is that you are probably eating your lunch at your desk or in the lunchroom while everyone else is going out. The easiest thing to do is grin and bear it and go with everyone else.

I often wonder if anyone who goes out to lunch every day ever considers the health of the food they are about to consume. My first guess is NO. Seriously, who is going to consider what their putting in their bodies when it is such a social hour? After all, you can't go out to lunch and not eat with everyone else, can you? It is almost like peer pressure to eat food that could end up doing serious damage to you now and in the future. Even if you are pretty conscious of what you eat it still defies nature to find something that will truly benefit your insides.

I shook things up a little while back because I treated myself to the "7 Day 100% Gluten Free Super Food Challenge". On this challenge I decided to give my body a break from processing gluten and chemicals and ate strictly gluten free food for 7 whole days. What? "What did you do when it came time for lunch with your co-workers? You must have had lunch with them?" I cannot tell a lie so, yes I did go out to eat and had lunch with them. No matter where we went I tagged along for the ride, but since I made a commitment for 7 days to eat nothing but nutrient dense super food, I brought my own super food.

I know it is hard to believe and if you try to visualize that it is so out of the norm. I would bring my delicious favorite meal replacement bar with me. That is correct, I would sit there and have my awesome tasting meal replacement bar while they would eat whatever the restaurant offered. Most of the time what the restaurant offered was less than healthy. So you get the picture? Is it hard for you to imagine not eating what every one else is eating? For most people it would be impossible to do what I do, or is it?

It really comes down to the importance of your health. How important is your health to you? What would you sacrifice to gain better health? If you know you should eat better foods and exercise then why don't you? All of the questions are good ones and the only one that can answer them is you. What is stopping you from getting healthy? My suggestion is to try the "7 Day 100% Gluten Free Super Food Challenge". Anyone can do anything for seven days and you never know, it might end up changing your life. It did mine because now I can go to lunch with everyone and happily have my bar and be totally satisfied. I know I'm on the right track because of the way I feel. That feeling is what it is all about and one I want the rest of my life. How about you?