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Food and Anxiety · Lavender Mind

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  Hey. Welcome to Lavender Mine podcast,
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  have.
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  Hey. Welcome to lavender mind. I'm your host,
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  Katie Bo blanc.
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  review.
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  I don't know about you, but I love
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  food. Love it so much to start running
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  because I'm 4 foot 11 and things out
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  up quick,
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  and it just kinda helps me
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  keep
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  all the stuff and balance.
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  Today's episode is all about how food can
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  affect our anxiety levels,
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  I'm gonna give some tips on how to
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  deal with that, even if you are a
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  lover of food and you're used to traditional
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  cooking,
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  Which is not always the cleanest.
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  A few tips. I'm also gonna talk about
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  what foods have good properties for our bodies.
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  To not cause anxiety and the ones that
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  we should avoid. Today is all about just
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  feeling your body because Our bodies are connected
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  in our mind, our body and spirit. We
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  can't disconnect that. It's 1 system, and what
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  we eat really does. Matter, but we can't
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  just rely on food to manage our stress
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  and anxiety. We do have to use regular
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  exercise, sleep
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  meditation, prayer, all the things that help manage
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  our stress, but food does make a difference.
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  Anxiety causing foods are usually processed foods like
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  chips, cookies, frozen foods,
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  sugar is a big 1, It hangs out
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  in a lot of our foods, 9 teaspoons,
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  for men is the allotted amount of sugar
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  in a day, 6 for women. You'd be
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  surprised how much and how quickly it adds
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  up caffeine in excess
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  also causes anxiety, fatty food, soft drinks, candy,
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  and just lack of hydration can cause anxiety.
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  Well, we are stressed. A lot of times,
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  these are the things that we go for.
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  You know, it's what we turn to when
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  we're having a really rough day. But in
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  the long run, it actually increases our anxiety
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  and depression,
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  research shows that high sugar, high processed foods.
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  Cause increased cortisol levels, which is the primary
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  hormone for stress.
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  Research also shows
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  an increase in stress and cortisol
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  have been linked to increase in developing obesity,
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  metabolic syndromes, cardiovascular
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  disease, type 2 diabetes,
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  depression and disorders of the brain. So what
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  can we do to combat that? I'd like
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  to list a few food she probably
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  no, but I think it's always really good
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  to have a refresher or so that next
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  time you go to the grocery store your
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  grab for these. Foods that reduce anxiety are
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  also
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  high in omega 3 fatty acid, like your
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  fish,
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  salmon,
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  tuna,
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  sardines,
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  nuts and seeds, almonds, walnuts,
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  fl,
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  chia seeds, avocados,
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  vegetable,
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  leafy greens,
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  strawberry, citrus, papaya, can, apr cuts, lean, proteins,
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  like chicken fish eggs, and also
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  for minute food, dark chocolate,
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  avocado,
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  broccoli.
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  There are so many more I didn't wanna
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  bore you with the list, but that's a
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  very good list to keep in mind next
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  time you're at the store. And you so
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  I know that personally, I have 14 teenagers
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  and sometimes there were things in my house
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  that I don't love, even though my kids
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  know where I stand with food, you know,
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  we're human and I like to live life
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  to the fullest, like, right now, as we
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  speak, I have kids sleeping on my couch.
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  And I promise you they were not eating
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  kale chips last night of
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  So I live in the real world, and
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  I just put my blind on because I
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  do not wanna eat what they were eaten
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  last night for their movie marathon of,
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  Harry Potter. How do we navigate life and
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  have balance,
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  but still keep our bodies
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  aligned so that we can show up our
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  best. Just a few ideas with this, try
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  to stay on the outer rim of your
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  grocery store,
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  keeping fresh fruit vegetables.
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  In the refrigerator ready for you to grab
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  if you need a good snack, having some
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  eggs boiled
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  Don't know what your food preferences are, but
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  whatever they are, fruits and vegetables
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  at the ready, so you're not going for
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  that junk, honestly, just not keeping the junk
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  in the house. We tip really don't have
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  Junk unless we've had a party, and that
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  really does make it easier. But if some
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  of your family members
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  keep those oreos handy and the pantry, just
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  make sure you have your fruit go to
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  so that you're not going for those cookies.
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  Other ideas around this is this... Again, it's
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  not a cure all. You have to combine
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  this
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  with
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  a balanced life, and I have an acronym
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  for that. I'll continue to be building this
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  out throughout other podcasts, but the acronym is
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  in order to stay balanced in your life,
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  you need
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  MEDSR.
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  So meds, rx.
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  These are the things we can do in
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  our life to have wellness
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  so that we have to so that we
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  can avoid taking meds and prescriptions. M is
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  for mindfulness,
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  your spiritual practice,
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  exercise for e, diet for d, s is
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  sleep, our
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  relationships, and x is just the extra stuff
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  like breath work, getting a lot of
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  hydration, make sure you're drinking enough water, grounding
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  techniques, like taking your feet and putting them
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  on the grass,
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  combat, a lot of our screen time. These
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  are all the extras that we can do
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  to really keep our wellness
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  and our mind, body spirit.
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  Very aligned so that we can show up
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  our best. Other thoughts with this are the
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  fact that when we take care of our
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  body, you know, it is our muscle. It
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  deserves love and healthy food. This is a
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  form of self love so that we can
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  show up for others
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  our best. We can't pour from an empty
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  cup. The fuel we give ourselves gives us
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  energy so that we can serve ourselves and
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  others
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  my why for why I try to eat
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  well is because I wanna play with my
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  grandkids. Which your why? Why can eating cleaner
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  be a higher priority?
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  Is there a reason, maybe, you... Maybe you
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  wanna pull you your grandkids. Maybe you wanna
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  live long and you have a list of
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  things that you wanna complete your bucket list
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  is long and you wanna
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  live long enough to
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  do those things. So what is your why?
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  Why do you want to have less anxiety
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  because
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  All that anxiety
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  causes so many different things in our lives,
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  a few things that anxiety causes on the
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  physical level are pal,
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  pins and needles,
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  grinding our teeth.
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  It can affect your love life, psychologically,
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  you feel tense, restless,
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  panic or doom,
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  social
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  isolation. All of those can affect our work,
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  life and families. So it's really important to
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  not blow off the fact that food is
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  a part of our mind body and spirit,
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  and you could be taking really good care
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  of your mind,
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  but
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  lack in the food department, and all of
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  it makes a difference because we can't
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  disconnect our minds, our bodies and spirits. It's
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  together, so it really does make a difference
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  what we eat. I know this is a
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  tough 1. I grew up with food being
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  loved.
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  My grandma. I would go over there, and
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  we would have a c of cookies. She
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  would bake for weeks at a time to
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  make Italian cookies
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  at Christmas time. It was pretty much my
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  heaven. He would walk in, and you would
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  see every Italian cookie known to man. It
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  smelled like a mixture of marinara sauce,
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  and crawfish bi and iced cakes because she
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  was a cater or she catered weddings. She
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  was about 4 foot tall and that lady
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  could cook. It was amazing. And those Christmas
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  is are forever burned in my memories because
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  they were amazing. And a lot of that
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  had to do with food. So I do
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  understand that food is very emotional and it's...
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  Sometimes our traditions are not always the cleanest.
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  I think it's good to have balance. When
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  you have control and it's not a holidays.
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  Season. Even during the holiday seasons, it's important
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  to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables
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  because we have to show up with a
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  lot of energy and when you're eating cookies,
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  it does make you tired all that show
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  can make us tired. So I do believe
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  there can be a balance.
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  I am not a robot. I definitely
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  or love a little fig italian cookie here
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  and there, and I love sugar. I have
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  to really watch my sugar intake. It's definitely
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  my vice. So I understand the struggle is
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  real. I guess I'm saying this today because
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  I wanna bring the fact that anxiety causing
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  foods. So are a thing and just the
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  awareness of it. If you're really struggling and
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  you're doing all your mindful practices and you're
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  still having anxiety society. This is definitely something
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  to think about what have I've been eating
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  lately, You know, maybe I've been on the
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  go and I've been eating a few more
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  faster
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  options. So do we combat that? Of course
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  packing your lunch? But if you can't pack
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  your lunch? Because I am on the road
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  constantly, You can always go to, like, a
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  grocery store and just hit the... Produce section.
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  There's a lot of food options in the
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  produce section that's healthy.
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  Another idea is, gas stations,
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  I live in the south. We have racetrack.
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  They have
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  a lot of really healthy options, like little
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  combinations of fruits.
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  And vegetables and nuts to fill you up
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  while you're on the go and you just
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  couldn't plan ahead. And and then, of course,
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  there are cleaner fast food options depending on
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  where you live. We have a little bit
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  less of those in my neck of the
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  woods, but hopefully you have a lot more.
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  Those are just some tips to, hopefully
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  amp up your food so that your food
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  is not causing anxiety because there's nothing worse
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  than
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  really practicing that
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  mindful
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  practice having all the things in place, but
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  you're still noticing anxiety. So today all about
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  awareness with food and what it could possibly
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  do to our brains, our guts,
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  and our whole bodies.
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  Take care of your body. It's your vessel.
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  It deserves love,
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  eating healthy food is a form of self
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  love And like I said earlier, we can't
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  pour from an empty cup. The fuel we
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  give ourselves, gives us energy to serve others
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  and ourselves.
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  I hope this helps. I hope together we
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  can plant some seeds of resilience and joy.
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  Have an amazing day.