What Is Quality Nutrition?

You have probably heard the saying food is medicine. Today, I wanted to dive a little deeper into how to integrate more quality nourishment without getting into the trap of then labeling foods as good or bad.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I try to steer clear of labeling food in any way. I have also observed for myself and with my clients that when we choose the highest quality of food to nourish our body with it can support in cultivating the vitality, energy, joy, and aliveness many of us are looking to feel. 

I want to preface anything I say right now with trust where you’re at on your healing journey. If you’re at a place where you need to relax around food and just eat and enjoy whatever you’re eating keep doing that until you feel naturally called to eat differently.

Quality food is anything that you could pull from the earth, pick from a tree, is lovingly cared for and tended to, and is naturally occurring and created.

Remember a time when you ate a beautifully home cooked meal. How did you feel? What sensations and emotions arose from eating that meal? How was your digestion during and after that meal? Now, remember a time when you ate fast food or a meal that was processed out of a can or a frozen meal. How did you feel after that meal?

Different foods will digest differently in our system. Meals that contain an abundance of quality food are also providing minerals, vitamins, fiber, antioxidants, amino acids, and so much more help to promote health and wellness in our being. Additionally, the sense of aliveness, vitality, vibrancy, energy we are often looking to feel can be cultivated by eating the foods that have a sense of aliveness, vibrancy, and energy by how they were tenderly cared for, watered, and grown to arrive on your plate.

When embarking on an exploration of consuming more high quality foods, instead of focusing on what you supposedly can't eat, what you have to take out, or what is suddenly labeled as a "bad" food, which can create a restrictive and lack mentality, we will be focusing on what you can ADD in.

If you're eating a meal with perhaps more packaged foods, no problem! We can explore what high quality food you could ADD in. Perhaps that is adding some fresh vegetables on top of soup from a can. Maybe that is adding some leafy greens on top of a frozen pizza. A quality food experiment can be fun. You can focus on making your plate as colorful as possible and vibrant colors often come from fruits and vegetables.

By focusing on the addition of nourishment, food can then stay neutral where we can trust we are always giving our body what it needs and stay in the mindset of curiosity of what would be fun to ADD to our meals that might enhance that meal's ability to support us in feeling how we want to feel in our body.

Have some fun this week with your meals to explore what new colors, new quality foods, new nutritional additions you want to add in and let me know how it goes!