My Baby Food Choices are Easy

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Baby Food.

My stance on this is super-easy.

Organic baby foods are almost always clearly labeled as such.

I don’t have any children, but if I did, this is a no-brainer.

I’d want my child avoiding pesticides, antibiotics, fertilizers, hormones, genetically modified foods, additives, irradiation and the like. It seems obvious that an infant, of all humans, is likely to have the most difficulty with these kinds of additions to the food, and could be the most impacted by them.  Their developing bodies likely handle these issues in a much more delicate manner than an adults would, and on top of this, most baby foods are pureed, making the concentration of these additives potentially much higher.  An adult eating the whole fruit or vegetable in comparison is likely to have less of a toxic burden.

I would never want my child consuming anything outside of organic, except for those standards that are of course higher; knowing a local pesticide-free grower of foods (or growing myself) and making the baby food on my own as one option.

I would choose labels with “organic” over “made with organic ingredients,” for which the standards on the latter are a lower percentage of organic foods in the product.

The labels on most baby foods seem pretty clear about what you’re getting.  And for me, cost would not be an issue.  This is our babies health we are talking about, making the expense a total non-issue.

Easy choices on this topic.

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace……….Tim

Complaining at the Gym

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I don’t know exactly why so many people put effort into fat loss, but never really take the time to understand how their efforts may or may not apply to them, what techniques are most likely to help them the most, how muscle factors into their weight or how their time doing cardio may actually work against them.

I recently joined a new gym, a really spectacular gym in my area that is about three stories high, has a huge pool, and all the latest exercise equipment.  This gym has become so popular, that it is often very busy, especially on Mondays.  So much so, there is often a waiting list to get on the cardio machines, and people even have to sign in to access them at times.

It has a family-oriented atmosphere, which is what I like most about it.  I long attended gyms that were basically “meat markets,” and I’m just not into that whole scene.  Was never a bar/clubbing person, so similarly, I don’t enjoy the pick-up atmosphere.

I will constantly overhear people talking about their progress.  The things that they’re doing, and what they have to complain about (LOTS of complaints going around).

99% of the time I will not interject or offer any opinion.  I’m a very social person by nature, but it has been my experience that even if really great advice is offered, it often is not valued nor implemented.  I’m also an optimist, but in a cynical mood tonight, so I’ll simply say that it’s not worth my effort to bother any more.

So I don’t.

But that doesn’t cause me to be amazed any less at the endless complaints people voice, loudly enough to their friends or even strangers, while they clearly do not do what (they perhaps know?) they should do to lose the weight and/or fat they’re contending with.

I practice what I preach in my program, and always have.  In my sincere opinion, there are no real secrets to fat loss, simply a level of knowledge involved that is then applied to the individual situation, that will most of the time produce results.

Don’t get me wrong…I do complain at times. 😉  It can be a form of venting that provides temporary relief.

But then I actively *do* something about it.  And when it comes to weight/fat loss, since it is something that applies directly to us and 95%+ of the time *can* be changed with *our own* effort…it is an ideal means of building ourselves up beyond the need to complain, a mind set of which can then be applied to other areas of our lives.

Meaning…

It is one of those areas of our lives that we can actively work on, and see tangible results with.  This in turn will foster greater belief in ourselves, and a sense of accomplishment.  This mind set can then transfer to other areas of our lives that we struggle with, to help in the development of our overall humanity.

…Or at least I will continue to complain that it can.

😉

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace…………….Tim  🙂

P.S. Seriously folks…do go easy on yourselves, the fat loss game can be a challenge.  But so many of the people I meet who know they have a problem…ALSO know what to do about it, or at least enough to create dramatic change.  It’s the complaining about it while NOT doing anything that I have a problem with.  It gets the person no where, and does not contribute to a healthy way of life, of living.