You want to look like the guys from 300? Well you can, but it requires a tremendous amount of dedication. Not only do you have to physically punish your body over a prolonged period of time, but you need to step on top of your game when it comes to nutrition.
The Food Pyramid is a graphical representation allowing people to better understand how to eat healthy. A balanced diet is one that includes all the food groups of the food pyramid – recently there has been a switch to a healthier diet focusing on fruits and vegetables.
What is in your diet?
What have you done to analyze your dietary habits?
What role does food play in your life?
What habits/ rituals/ systems do you have in place around your eating habits? grocery shopping?
Earlier this month, there was a great post about the ego and having versus wanting (Check Yourself Before you Reck Yourself – The Ego) as a follow up to that post, here’s an idea – go on an Ego Fast. Here is how an Ego Fast works:
According to Webster’s Dictionary, an ego is: the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world. So, we are suggesting you go without one’s self, especially as contrasted with another self or the world for a period of time. What does this mean? Here are a few ways to participate in an Ego Fast . . .
1. Pick a period of time – what is your goal? Three hours? One day? One Week? One Month? (Try to pick something that is going to actually make you put some effort into going “without”)
2. During this period, begin to examine your life for times when you have thoughts, take actions, make statements, have conversation etc. that involve: pride, pridefulness, self-regard.
3. As you begin your Ego Fast, as times come up in your life when you are “In your Ego,” try shedding those thoughts, actions, statements and/ or conversations and replace them with: humility, modesty, positive thoughts or silence.
* To date there is nothing official that exists as an Ego Fast, rather this is just an idea that we came up with. There are no really right or wrong ways to do your Ego Fast, rather it is a chance for you to create some self reflection. So try it out and let us know what you think.
According to Eckhart Tolle in the book A New Earth, “No ego can last for long without the need for more. Therefore, eating keeps the ego alive much more than having. The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by wanting. This is the psychological need for more, that is to say, more things to identify with. It is an addictive need, not an authentic one.”
Taming the ego is a constant struggle along the conscious journey, do not get discourage, rather understand this is part of staying the course. Like holding a pose in yoga even when the pose gets a little uncomfortable – let go of the physical part of the pose and go inward and focus on your breathing.
Are you staying authentic with yourself and look inward to your authentic self?
Are you buying things to have them or because you want them?
What are you doing to starve your ego?
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