By: The Whole Food Health Coach, Stephanie Wolfe
Certified Health Coach
If optimal health is your goal then there’s no getting around the importance of your diet, and by diet I don’t mean the restrictions you place on your eating through calorie counting for daily scale surveillance. I am talking about the choices you make in the food you use to FUEL your very complex and miraculously constructed body and all of its unique systems.
Our body is a complex engine that is capable of so much more than we may think or imagine, but we take it so for granted and suffer with less than optimal results. If our body could speak to us, it may say something like “Whose side are you on?”
When we understand what fuel it takes for optimal performance, we will see the connection of daily intake and our body’s capacity to help us to live a long and strong life. My husband and I have a motto “Live Long and Strong, with Passion and Purpose.” Sure, we want to live a long time, but we want to live strong throughout the years ahead, and not be pushing a walker and pulling an oxygen tank behind us. We want to have the energy to fulfill our purpose with passion.
Food is not the enemy. Food is fuel. It is not a counselor, comforter, or an answer for 
anger, sadness and boredom. Food is a tool: use it wisely and build a strong body or use it foolishly and we can hurt the entire system that we are counting on for life and strength. Our physical health is a direct reflection of what we put into our body, and how we live our life in general.
Our body is depending on us! Prepackaged processed foods may be convenient, but that is often their only benefit. Cooking from scratch with fresh whole food is often easier than we think, and is a must if we want to improve our health. I love to help my clients learn to cook simple whole food – not pieces, parts, fake food, or chemical additives. Learn how to monitor your nutritional ratios for proper distribution of protein, fat, fiber, and (yes) carbs. Doing so will correct issues of weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, insulin resistance, and other health concerns. Whole, real food is healthy food and our bodies crave it for fuel and use it to protect us from illness and disease. 75% of disease is preventable, so let’s join our body in this mission!
Lifestyle. Exercise. Attitude. Nutrition. The Whole Food Health Coach’ s L.E.A.N. Living approach to health and nutrition works, for everyone, because it is simple (not easy, but simple). Choose a plan that changes your life, by changing your education, because what you don’t know CAN hurt you, and much of the information out there these days is not “body-friendly”. Take a hard look at where you have been, where you are now, and where you want to go.
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