One of the things I tend to struggle with is making sure I get a balanced intake of all the food groups. Now this is not to say that I eat a horrible diet and that I am morbidly obese and can never manage to get up and move, rather it is just that sometimes there are healthier options that I could be taking into consideration and am not.
Today for instance, I had a strawberry poptart. This was neither technically filling nor healthy. I could have made an egg for breakfast and had a banana with a glass of milk. Gotten in my first dose of protein and some fruits and my dairy.
But I didn't. And that is on me.
But my dietary choices don't end there. There are many points throughout the day that I could be choosing to be healthy, and generally speaking, the choices made are not the best.
If we look at the cause of this though, it goes back to my shopping habits and the economical prices of eating healthy. I already try my best to save money by not eating out but when you take into consideration that I can buy a box of mac 'n' cheese for 89 cents and have food for at least 2 meals possibly 3, but a single apple can cost that same amount and will only be a single snack; the choice to be made is simple, get the most bang for my buck.
I could of course try to balance out what I eat by doing more physical activity but then you run into the issue of having time for such a task, having the means to do it whether by going to a gym or having a safe neighborhood to walk around in. Not to mention the biggest hurdle of needing the motivation and dedication to stick with it.
And so we end up in the predicament that you currently see me in, questioning my choice to have a poptart for breakfast and trying to figure out what I could be doing better or doing differently.
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