Food for thought

Do you every think about food?? I mean really think about it? All of the positive things it offers our bodies, nutrition, energy even joy?!
Iv been thinking about food A LOT the past 4 days. The taste, the smell, the joy....but until tonight I really hadn't thought about the things that I NEED food for.
I have spent many years enjoying food, loving food, craving food. I'm not your typical fluffy girl, no sir. My love for food goes into EVERY area of my life.
I have only held jobs that were in the restaurant business for the past 24yrs. My husband is a pastry chef by trade, watching the Food Network is like foreplay for us.
We probably spend more hours in a month watching and re watching our favorite Food Network shows than having sex. (Like I said a BIG part of my life LOL)
As the past couple days have evolved Iv started thinking more about how to make food not such a presence in my life. I realized it really doesn't start with a new diet, or exercising till I puke or even filling every moment of everyday with things to do to keep my mind off food. It starts with me changing my thought process,a shift if you will. I need to think about things that food HAS and HASN'T gotten me.

HAS: Income, love, comfort, joy, memories, hips that hurt, ankles that crack, breath gone when climbing stairs and a really big ass

HASN'T: A shopping  trip in a non "BIG" girl shop that I enjoyed, more than 10 pictures of myself taken in the last 12yrs, less stress, more money, a marathon picture, a summer in a swimsuit that I'm not embarrassed by, or a smaller ass

I guess when we think of food in those terms, I can see what I have aloud it to take from me. I'm going to print this as a reminder of what to think about and focus on when I have food filling my thoughts.