You are what you...
As a child the most dreaded phrase I could hear was "What are you eating? You know, you are what you eat." My biggest fear is that I would one day look like a pepsi and hershey bar. As genetics would have it I could easily eat like this and not gain a pound, all the way through from elementary through the military. It wasn't until college, post military, that this saying started to truly take form in my life, more importantly in my waistline. Last summer I was diagnosed with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, a virus had attacked my heart and for the first time I truly began to understand "You are what you eat" and if I didn't change my habits wrong eating would be life ending, sooner rather than later. (Needless to say moving from Missouri to Texas took a toll on these changes but we are back on track as of today!) So in the end the food I eat will play a part in the life that I live here. Guess those folks who told me that as a kid weren't so wrong a