How long have you been living inside of a body that you really aren’t pleased with? If you would have started living a healthier lifestyle when you first realized it, would you be where you are right now, or would you be in better shape?
It’s foolish to continue to live unhealthily while you hope for better results. To live our best life now, we must make changes to improve ourselves; otherwise down the road we’ll be just continue to be discontent.
What is so exciting about beginning to live a healthier lifestyle now, is that you will be living the best you are capable of for this moment with the body you currently have. As you continue to live healthier, your body will keep improving, getting stronger, more vivacious and energetic, and your quality of life will just keep getting better!
When we don’t exercise properly, eat healthy foods in small portions throughout the day, and when we don’t get enough sleep, it limits our ability to live our best life now.
How can we complain about our physical wellbeing when we don’t do our part? We can’t feed our body low quality junk foods for nutritional energy and expect a healthy, strong, lean and energetic body. We are what we eat. Junk in will produce junkie health.
Are you doing your part? Are you feeding yourself good nutrition? Have you been eating correct portion sizes, or have you been downing the keg and complaining because you don’t have six pack abs?
The only way we can have our healthiest life now is to care enough about ourselves to make what we eat, the amount of sleep we get and exercising a priority. Start loving yourself enough to make yourself a priority; and start taking good care of you. Often we take care of others but not ourselves.
Having a healthy body is up to you. No one can do it for you. There is no magic pill.
The choice is yours, Are you going to live your best life now or are you going to settle for less than God’s best for yourself
Mexican Goulash
When I created this, the flavor and texture turned out better than I thought it would.
1 (15-ounce) can fat-free chili (made with turkey.)
1 (16-ounce) can fat-free refried beans
1 (12-ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained
1 1/2 cups salsa
1 cup fat-free fancy shredded cheddar cheese, optional
5 (10-inch) fat-free flour tortillas
- Spray a slow cooker with nonfat cooking spray.
- In a large bowl stir together the chili, refried beans, corn, and salsa until well mixed.
- Lay one tortilla flat on the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Pour one-fifth of the mixture on top.
- Continue layering the tortillas and the remaining four-fifths of the mixture until all the ingredients are used.
- Cover and cook on low for 7 hours.
- Using a sharp knife (a steak knife works well) cut through all the layers, making a checkerboard design on top. Each cut should be about 1-inch apart. (The cut-up tortillas will taste a lot like pasta when the recipe is finished.)
- With a large spoon stir the entire dish to mix the cut-up tortilla pieces.
- Serve in soup bowls.
- Sprinkle lightly with additional fat-free cheddar cheese, if desired.
Yield: 8 servings, Calories: 232, Fat: 2 grams (7% fat), Cholesterol: 7mg, Carbohydrate: 42g, Dietary Fiber: 7g, Protein: 11g, Sodium: 968mg Menu idea: A tossed salad rounds out this meal and sugar-free vanilla pudding ends it nicely.
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