Eating Healthy

Take a look at the photo of Hunter the dog. See any fat? Me ether. His food is down for him to eat 24 hours a day 7 days a week and yet he eats only when he is hungry. On days when he works out a lot in the field chasing bumpers or making long swimming retrieves he will sometimes eat as much as twice his normal amount. Yet he is never over weight.

Hunter will not eat to keep from getting hungry or eat just in case he is not fed tomorrow. Each day is a new game, a new experience and he deals with every day as it comes along.

Why then do we over eat sometimes? Why am I in the middle of a diet to drop the extra 10 pounds I have put on since we started the restaurant?

Sometimes eating is more than God meant it to be by us. We are glutinous, eat more than we need and eat when we are not hungry. For me I know I eat more than I should on days I have not exercised. The end result I carry as a reminder of my bad behavior, each time I get dressed, God reminds me that it is not the dryer making my clothes smaller but my behavior doing it.

Yet all I have to do is again look to my gift from God to remind me that while dinner time is an important family time to be together, God is to be the center of the table, not the food. More is not always better and less can be so much more.

I love cooking and eating but what I need to remember is that portion control based on my activity level each day. Something Hunter can do but I struggle with.

Thanks again God for the live-in example of moderation.