Eat to Live

Want to know the real meaning of “eat to live”? Just try to go to hunger-stricken country where children and adult died because they cannot afford or cannot have enough food to eat an sustain healthy condition. This is the real unfortunate condition that you can talk about “eat to live”.

“Eat to live” implies survival and could be interpreted as: just eat anything as long as you eat. Is that the real message that all those marketers wants ?

I guess the message that they want to convey is “do not overeat, just eat enough for your body need so you don’t become overweight” -or- “Eat the right stuff, if you continue to eat this you will not live that long”.  Then, this is exactly the opposite of what “eat to live” means.

Live to Eat

Yes, we are all should do “live to eat”. No, not encourage you to become professional food taster/critique – although nothing wrong with that profession – it’s actually one of exquisite profession you can choose, but we should understand the true meaning of “Live to Eat”.

If you live to eat, you will only choose food that delicious, with high quality ingredient and will not bother with all those junk food. Isn’t it ? Imagine that you are the king of some far far away land that only live to eat. Will you bother to eat low quality food? Of course not! Will you select that food that you eat carefully and intentionally so you can get the best of it ? You betcha !

And, even if you only live to eat, it does not means that you don’t care about your health. It’s actually the opposite. Since you know exactly, for example that the next 2 weeks you will only eat fatty food, then you can anticipate with more exercise. In order to be able to eat properly, then you need to be healthy (sick person cannot eat that many choice of food, isn’t it ?) and vice versa, the food that you eat should make you sick as well.

“Live to Eat” implies choices and abundance. You have the ability to choose whatever you want to eat and of course, the amount. Is this exactly what everybody should do ? Yes, of course.  Once you understand the gist of this concept, then you should take control of what you eat , when you it it and how much you will eat it. Remember that you cannot eat too much as the next meal you need to eat another round of quality food…. And so on, and so on…

And that is what supposed to be happening all around us.

Remember, eating one kind of food as much as possible continuous is not “live to eat”, it is actually “eat to die”.

So, change your limiting belief ! You need to enjoy life and enjoy all the food along the way.  You need to “live to eat” without giving up your health. Choose only quality food that you are happy with, which also make you continuously healthy – that’s the true meaning of “live to eat”.

Marvelous  Human Body

As conclusion, remember that human body is marvelous system. It actually self regulate and adjust to the environment that it is in. So, make use of it but do not abuse it. Eat all the food in the world – try it all, but eat it in moderation. And just like drinking alcohol, you need to know your own limit. Do not over stuff your self with food as you will not be ready for the next eating time ! (You live to eat , remember?).

Happy Eating !