{"id":2568,"date":"2007-06-26T10:52:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:48:39","slug":"eating-for-energy-or-stress-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/eating-for-energy-or-stress-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating for energy or stress relief?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifestyle\/eating-for-energy-or-for-stress-relief.html\">Lifehacker<\/a> blogger <strong>Brian Armstrong<\/strong> talks about his new ideas behind eating healthy.<br \/>\nWhile I haven&#8217;t been eating the most healthy meals ever, <strong>Laurie<\/strong> and I can say that we definitely notice when we haven&#8217;t been eating as healthy as we should.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s probably eaten healthier than I have for a while so I think her body notices it more. She can definitely tell when she&#8217;s had too much sugar in her system.<br \/>\nArmstrong says, &#8220;The way I used to eat: I associated unhealthy food with pleasure, and healthy foods with pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would think about that burger, fries, and milkshake all day. About how juicy and tasty it would be, how satisfied I would be afterwards, and how good it make me feel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now he says, &#8220;The way I eat now: I associate unhealthy food with pain and healthy food with pleasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever noticed that after gorging yourself on that burger, fries, and shake\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you feel a little bit tired? Have you ever had indigestion, and felt like a brick was lodged in your stomach?<br \/>\nThese are the sort of feelings you can begin to associate with unhealthy food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Armstrong takes it a step further and shows you what you&#8217;re doing to your body with unhealthy foods.<br \/>\nThinking about what your clogged arteries look like when you eat a burger and it may cause you to loose your appetite a lot faster.<br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vtheart.org\/imagelibrary\/congenital.jpg\">See for yourself<\/span> or watch what happens when a doctor has to put a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zxqj1BcBpIg\">stint in your heart<\/A> to keep it working.<br \/>\n(you may not want to look if you have a weak stomach)<br \/>\nOn the flip side, think about being full of energy and strength when you eat healthy foods.<br \/>\nIf you can re-associate your thinking of healthy foods and unhealthy foods it may make a huge difference in what you decide to eat later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifehacker blogger Brian Armstrong talks about his new ideas behind eating healthy. While I haven&#8217;t been eating the most healthy meals ever, Laurie and I can say that we definitely notice when we haven&#8217;t been eating as healthy as we should. She&#8217;s probably eaten healthier than I have for a while so I think her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/eating-for-energy-or-stress-relief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eating for energy or stress relief?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-hacks","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}