It Matters

James and I are rounding out week two of clean eating and Beachbody's program P90. The exercises have definitely been kicking our butts this week, but I felt that we had the eating nutritiously down pat...until Monday evening when we both felt lethargic and cranky. (I couldn't and really didn't even want to keep up with the modifier on the video). Then I had an epiphany about why we weren't feeling up to par, even with all this supposedly "healthiness" running through our entire household. This realization came about by a friend and one Bible verse that has always stuck out to me.

The other night James and I had an old friend of his over. It was a great night and James and I took advantage of having a guest over by serving up our last frozen pizza. (I have been raised with a waste not, want not mentality and to eat healthy I didn't just want to throw away our unhealthy food). James and I both modestly ate a few small pieces, instead of devouring the entire pizza between the two of us like we normally do. As the night continued, James' friend said something that, at the time didn't stick out to me. He said that he had really been working on not using bad language. He would do great for several days, then slip up within twenty minutes of hanging out with some of the people he worked with. It bugged him that every time he was around those certain people he just let his mouth run like them. I brushed the story aside and James and I continued on our weekend.

He skipped breakfast Saturday. I went without my normal "second breakfast" (had to throw that in there for my fellow LOTR fans). We ate out and had red meat. Delicious, yet heavy on the stomach after a week of eating clean. And to finish up the weekend we had guests over Sunday afternoon, where I made one of my favorite creamy dishes, but not quite the healthiest. Needless to say, the excitement that both of us had throughout the week over our new lifestyle seemed to almost disappear over night. Then Monday evening we were talking with each other after our workout (the workout I pretty much complained how I hated every exercise) and James says to me, "You know what it is? It's because we stopped eating clean this weekend."

Instantly, I went back to Friday night when James' friend said how certain people influenced him to be one way when he wanted to be different...and the Bible verse found in 1 Corinthians 15:33 came to mind, "Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” See James' friend would be persuade to do the very thing he didn't want to do because of the company he kept. And when we kept "bad" food in our house it was only a matter of time before we caved and ate what we had.

It's so simple to surround yourself with good company or bad company. The same goes for what we eat. You have a choice to not only take your friend choices in your hands, but your nutritional choices as well. Choose wisely and don't be corrupted. 

There's a tid-bit for you.