So even though this may not be a professional nascar car this is still performance car. I used to own a Red Honda Civic Si and I wanted it to up it's performance so it was a no brainer, you change the stuff you put in it. Can a car race with regular oil & gas? Sure it can but you'll probably over heat and run into engine issues. When a car is being pushed as hard as it can to get down that quarter mile as fast as it can. The fluids we put in it play such a vital part to keep that engine running at it's best.
I grew up in a house where we only took care of our cars when something was wrong. The oil wasn't changed regularly and slowly but surly all our cars would have some many problems we'd have to stop driving them all together. Then there was my husband's family. They are very meticulous about car care and all their cars seem to just keep going and going and going.
Now if you haven't figured out where this is going I will explain. To make my car run better I know I to put better products in it: synthetic oil, premium gas. What is our bodies but a machine. Yeah our bodies can live on fast food but we all know it runs better on healthier food. So can you run or work out on crappy processed foods? Sure you can, but will you run into issues with your energy and stamina? Yes. It seem so simple and and that we know how to take care of a race cars by making sure we put high quality fluids and parts in. Yet I know I am not the only athlete in training out there that isn't fueling their bodies correctly. Any foods can keep our motors going. But people who eat healthy decrease the risk of many illnesses, increasing the length and quality of there lives. Just like a car that gets the best oil and fluids on a regular basis.
If a car isn't running right the first thing we check is the fluids and what we've put into the car. When our bodies aren't running right we go the doctor and they run tests then says well nothings is wrong you're technically healthy. We gladly take that and go on our merry way. But we still know our machines are not running properly and if they keep going this way we will soon have problems that show up on Doctors tests. A friend of mine said she had all types of issues and her Dr's (I think she said she had 8 total) told her what she has were all chronic problems and just part of her life. She was very overweight, at the time, and none of them said well you need to change your eating habits. She did change them and lost a total of 173 lbs and these chronic problems have magically gone away. Just more proof that what we put into our bodies is so important to the what we expect to get out of them.
This thought process came about after my race car comment yesterday. If I plan on continuing to run and race, and I do. I need to start preparing my machine with the proper nutrition. Not only do I firmly believe it will help me lose weight but this is going to help my performance. New question to ask my self when I am choosing what to eat is this fuel going to help my training? It does finally treat food as fuel instead of pleasure and reward. I know this is the way we need to treat food but I've never been able to make that connection in my brain because I'd rather eat what I want to eat. I am hoping this new question will be the key to changing the way I think about food.
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