Food = Fuel

When you drive around, you look down and notice that your gas gauge is on E. So you drive to the gas station, pull up to the pump, swipe your card and begin filling. So do you keep filling until gasoline is leaving a nice puddle that you're standing in? Cleaning the side of your car? Do you waste gallons and gallons of gas just because you keep filling the gas tank?

No....yea sure gas prices have come down remarkably, but gas still isn't free and as my mother used to remind my brother sister and I, money doesn't grow on trees.

In that same breath, then why are you filling your stomach, the gas tank of your body until you have a nice puddle of gasoline to stand in? So why do you eat and eat and eat and eat when you aren't even hungry? You're body doesn't need what it can't even stuff into the gas tank. Would your car hold more than it needs to just fill the gas tank? Well I'm sure you could find plenty of resevoirs for some extra gasoline, but it doesn't go there! Then why are you doing that with the food you put into your body? It's not good for your car and it's not good for you either!!

Do you know that food is actually nothing more than fuel for our bodies to survive the day, using the food for energy to do everything it needs to in that person's day (lots of activity or none). In reality, all food is fuel. Coke, pie, cookies, candy, chicken, berries, lettuces, broccoli, chips, pretzels, cheese, french fries, carrots, quinoa, whole grains, soy--they're all fuel. As, I'm sure you can see, some are better quality fuels than others. So we have some regular and some premium (or 87 and 93). If all the fuel is the same price, wouldn't you put premium in the gas tank in your car so that it runs the cleanest and most efficient and best? If you'd give your car the top of the line, why do you insist on giving your body (the one and only that you'll get, I'll remind you) such crap to run on?

I know that I keep this in mind when eating in weak moments. I hope you do. Because you don't need more than you *need* and you run most efficiently on the premium grade fuel :)