Comments on: eating to live.

By: maggie

maggie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:42:15 +0000

Wow I just read this for the first time, and I will be going back to reread and click on the links. This was honesty in its most amazing form! Balance has always been the key to everything..the problem is that people’s lifestyles have become so extream that balance often doesn’t exist. Some worry about eating too much, some stress on eating too little. Once we get back to the basics, wholesome foods..that there is the balance. I say live wholesomely and good foods will be apart of that. I guess I’m rambling…anyways great post Leslie!!

xoxo
Maggie

By: Neela Marijana

Neela Marijana — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:41:13 +0000

i agree, balance is the goal here! we need to eat to live but we also need to eat for pleasure and to excite our taste. otherwise everything we ate could just be boring and bland. but i need tasty, funky foods to fee me :)

By: andy

andy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:54:29 +0000

love the trip..even at my advanced age there are still choices to be made..and sometimes what is bad is just sooo good you have to indulge..to feed the soul..

By: Lele

Lele — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:40:27 +0000

Reading your reminiscing about Europe is reminding me how great it is to eat like a European- they definitely eat for the soul over there. They don’t sweat a serving of quality fromage, you can eat pastries for breakfast if you want, wine is ubiquitous… yet somehow they get more vegetables and weigh less than us. I think it’s something about getting SATISFACTION from food, and therefore getting the right portions.

By: chandra h

chandra h — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:59:54 +0000

“I’d rather eat, then live.”

leslie, you have such a perfectly articulate and story-like way of explaining yourself and i love this whole post (and your previous one on bright spots, which i just caught up on) and ending summation. i can’t think of much else to say then…. i completely agree.

i love being fascinated by food and looking forward to eating delicious things, but there should totally be a balance of many, many bright spots in front of your eyes, not just food as one overwhelmingly glare-y one. also, health in food = there should be a balance. the way you eat should be hand in hand with your physical health and living your life the fullest way you can.

again, love this :)

♥

By: Low

Low — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:45:37 +0000

I totally think balance between the two is possible. As long as eating isn’t done to shut out other feelings, in the form of a binge or some other unhealthy behavior, it’s completely okay to eat foods that comfort, invigorate or calm you. The trick is knowing that we have control over the start and the stop of the behavior.

Loved this post!

By: Coco

Coco — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:58:31 +0000

I say balance is the ultimate goal. You want to eat for the soul, but not let that get out of hand where it soon effects your body in negative ways because then that also effects your soul. You also don’t want to eat for only the body because that can lead down a negative road that also effects your soul. It’s good to be in touch with both and to find an equilibrium that brings harmony to both body and soul.

By: Devan G Newman

Devan G Newman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:02 +0000

I agree with Ellie
that Balance sometimes is hard to do.. but its important!! Eating for your body, of course, is very important. we need to “eat to live” !! But you must eat for your soul as well.. Eat what you want, and not feel guilty. eat what you love! and love your body too.

By: ellie

ellie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:29:45 +0000

…and that made no sense whatsoever. I am blaming jetlag!

By: ellie

ellie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:29:19 +0000

I think balance doesn’t come easily to a lot of us. Maybe more so our generation than those previous to us- or maybe it’s some other reason. I struggle with eating to live V living to eat. In my mind, defying logic, food and life are seperate. There is food and there is life/health/happiness- contradictory given how my eating habits fall in line with whatever mental/physical situation I am in, but I have a hard time believing that food IS life (ie, without food there is no life). I have grown to apprecciate food for how it tastes, how it makes me feel, the occasions it lets me partake in and the memories it creates. I am working on keeping it in a compartment- I don’t want my world to be 100% food, whether it’s eating to live or living to eat… I just want to live and enjoy everything along the way. Food inlcuded :)