What's going on, everyone? Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all happy

podcast. As always, I'm your coach and host Joshua here with his co-host and co-coach

Kyle. And we're coming at you with an incredible episode, an episode that is a really important

one that we are very excited to make because we're going to be covering how to have a better relationship with food. And me and Kyle were just talking about this. This isn't something, you know, we're perfect with. I think it's something you always need to reflect on and grow and do better. But even, you know, when I started, I ate purely for purpose. You know, I was like 170, 180 pounds and I wanted to get jacked. I wanted

to get muscular. I want to get beast and I just ate anything and everything. And, you know, for a long

time, food was purely for the purpose of me to look better, of to gain muscle, to do all these

things. But as I've evolved and as I've grown, I've really just figured out how food can influence

my, you know, my out how food can influence my,

um, you know, my energy, my attitude, my, you know, just general health, you know, all these amazing things like how much and how important food can be. And even seeing, you know, how food and

improper diet can be tied to a multitude of things like, you know, cancers, Alzheimer's, all these

different things. It really goes to highlight, especially as I get older, you know, cancers, Alzheimer's, all these different things.

It really goes to highlight, especially as I get older, you know, how important it is to have a

good relationship with food, to aim to eat a healthy diet, to have self-understanding.

And we're going to go through a lot of different things.

So to start off, a big inspiration for this episode was from the article I found on Healthline. So this was actually shouted out. This idea was brought to me by Fit with Kate. So shut out Fit with Kate. So I hear Bees in it. And I thought it was a definitely awesome idea because she was saying, hey, you spoke a lot about how food is fuel and all these different things and how important it is. And, you know, on our foods you should avoid episode episode but we haven't really spoken about the relationship side of it and right now there's so much going on i know it's a it's a really tough time you know there's a multitude of things but once again i found this article and it really just hit a lot of great things on the head and the first thing it said was we will link it as well so's a Healthline article linked in the description. But they started off by saying it's important to understand

that your relationship with food goes deeper than just fueling your body. Unlike animals that

eat solely for survivals, humans eat for a variety of reasons, such as joy, pleasure, culture,

tradition, socialization, and to fuel their bodies. And I thought this

was a great point to bring up because it is easy to say food is fuel and it very much is, but there's

so much that goes into it, right? We eat socially, we eat for joy, we eat for all these different

things, right? Even the culture of it, you know, the events, to get together and having this understanding is good. And that's why it's very important to have this relationship. And this also goes a level deeper as to why we don't really believe in meal plans because meal plans kind of exclude these things. And, you know, obviously as we'll get into, you know, here are just a few signs of a good relationship with food. Once again, they listed these and me and the cow are just an agreeance with every single one of them.

So whoever wrote this article is a beast because these are amazing points.

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