Eat Well

Eating well is important for experiencing life differently. As someone who has had a love-hate relationship with food, I am honored to share my challenges, learnings, and life with eating food. My desire is to encourage you to be more aware of the foods you eat. Eat Well is a six month series. Aloha

I share my experiences and my perspective. Eating and healing look different for everyone. If you are struggling with food or your relationship with your body, please find support. You don’t have to do this alone.

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Eat Well To Think Well

After five and a half decades of experiencing life, I know that my thinking is more capable, more effective, and more focused when I eat well. When I eat ultra-processed food or lots of sugar, I notice differences in my head and body. I am easily distracted and disrupted in my head, and I have to exert a lot of energy to focus and be still. But when I eat nutrient dense food regularly, my body and mind are clear and calm.

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Challenge 2: Replace Half Your Ultra-Processed Food With Real Food

For seven days, I encourage you to notice when you are about to eat ultra-processed food, and then replace half of those times with real food.

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Water

Besides loving to be in water, I love drinking water.

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Broccoli

My joy of eating broccoli developed while living in Hawaii.

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Cucumbers

For a few years when living alone in Hawaii and learning how to eat again, I used to thoroughly enjoy eating cucumber slices with blue cheese and sun-dried tomatoes. Nowadays I eat cucumbers when they are available and just add them to meals I am preparing.

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Fuji Apple

What was and is your favorite way to eat apples? On the mainland, my favorite way to eat an apple was as a caramel apple loaded with nuts. Living on islands, my favorite way to eat an apple is with peanut butter. The similarity is that I have always liked eating apples with nut or peanut protein. And my favorite apple to eat is a Fuji apple.

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Vegetable Kimchi

There is an older couple at the market who grows, harvests, and sells a variety of vegetables and fruits. With the fruits and vegetables, the woman, who just happens to be Chinese, creates wonderful dishes.

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Lau Lau

Yesterday I went to two events. At the second event, I bought a beef laulau plate. Laulau was what I was most excited to eat, and I saved one laulau to share with you.

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Raspberries

My love for raspberries started when I moved to Hawaii. Even though raspberries are not grown on the islands and have to be shipped or flown here, I would buy containers of raspberries and eat them in salads, yogurt, on top of pancakes, and in smoothies. One of my favorite smoothies is loaded with raspberries.

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Starfruit

When starfruit is cut, every slice is shaped like a star.

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Chicken Soup

When a woman I live with got sick, I made chicken soup in a crockpot. I used a local chicken from the farmers market and added jalapeños, carrots, green onions, sweet peppers, salt, and a bunch of seasonings. I thought something spicy might help her feel better.

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Blue Cheese

I have enjoyed eating blue cheese since I was a child. As an adult, I used to ask for samples of blue cheeses regularly, to make sure I was buying exactly what my taste buds wanted. I don't need to do that anymore. I know which blue cheeses I like.