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    My Story My Food
    My Story My Food
    My Story My Food
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    My Story My Food

    By Rhonda Allen

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    This is my story of learning to develop a healthy transformation of my body.  My understanding that changing what I ate, and how I would excercise.  Learning that Nutritious foods are what my body needed, and my desire to make them delicious, not the typical tasteless diet choices. Enjoy the recipes and expand them into your story and your food.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRhonda Allen
    Release dateJun 25, 2020
    ISBN9781393694588
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      My Story My Food - Rhonda Allen

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      Hi, I'm Rhonda

      My name is Rhonda Allen , I was inspired by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to write this book to be an inspiration and encouragement. My love and my thanks always to Dante Dupuy who kept me motivated and focused to complete.

      This cookbook is not about a diet, because diets do not work for long term success. It's a mixture of recipes that I admire. In making changes of how I approached eating. Making a choice to choose my wellbeing and a lifetime of peace with food.

      Starvation is not an option. You must understand that our bodies are made to eat and feel satisfaction and fullness. The world has given many labels to food.  Good food or bad foods, you just have to allow food to be food. All foods have to be considered at some point. It’s not about depriving, it’s about choosing when, where, and how much of these foods to incorporate. These are a few recipes that help me function better. It all comes down to respecting your body. Society tells us we have to be a certain way, a certain size, but when Jesus emphasized, Come as you are He meant everyone come just the way you are. Every single person is precious and wonderfully and miraculously made. 

      The same goes for our approach to how we eat and exercise. Everyone can choose to be healthier no matter what size or shape you are. It’s your story to develop. You exercise to feel a change, to feel the energy and fun in it. To build strength and motion, start where it feels good for you. Emotions are often comforted by the foods that we eat, been there, done that. Take a new approach, recognize and cope with emotional eating when those feelings are triggered. Don't use food to comfort yourself.

      I began to tell myself that I had the power to choose what goes in my body. I made the decisions that would change my life. We are all different, you have to find what works for you. Choose other options to deal with emotions. Exercise of any kind will always raise endorphin levels that will raise your mood. These recipes are foods that I handpicked, they are a guide to add, change and lead you to make better choices.

      Remember, food should always be of the highest quality, most importantly, taste good to you. When you begin to make better food choices your life choices will reflect that as well. Find out what will take you down the path to help you initiate better life choices and lower your risk of disease while building mobility. After all its your Story and your Food. Enjoy the journey, don’t forget to enjoy the food.

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      MY STORY MY FOOD

      Psalm 91:1

      Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty

      Igrew up in a household with parents that came from cultures that expressed the happiest

      times of life with the preparation of food.  My mom and her family were natives of Oklahoma

      and Texas.  My Dad and his family were from Louisiana. All of you know where I am going with this.  Needless to say, being the oldest daughter, I learned to make all the favorites, fried chicken, potato salad, buttermilk biscuits, fried gravy, oh my gosh! Everything that could be fried, from Mom.  Then there was Dad’s side, the fried fish, red beans and rice, Gumbo, fried shrimp po boys, hot sausage etc. My Mom worked nights, and when I was about thirteen, I started reading a Betty Crocker cookbook which evolved into making food for my family.  The better I got at creating and incorporating the flavors that I enjoyed, is how I developed my love for cooking.

      When I married, by then I was known for my food.  Regularly feeding my husband and my children, life was grand. As the years progressed life got busy, too busy to exercise regularly, too busy with kid’s schedules, grabbed fast food here and there, too busy for myself.  Then the

      Wake- up call...

      A big family camping trip was planned for the week.  Everyone was there having fun.  Setting up tents, tables, cooking area, campfire.  All was well until I volunteered to watch my daughter’s newborn baby.  I set up the portable crib in my tent, bottles, diapers, blankets, I was ready for this.  Now let’s back up, In the tent was an air mattress 5 inches off the ground that was quite comfy and warm.  2 AM in the morning that precious baby began to cry, I woke up, scooted myself to the edge of the mattress and could not get up. I tried getting on my knees, I tried everything. There was nothing to for my arms to pull myself up.  I was in a tent. The crib was soft-sided, I couldn’t even grab on to that.  My daughter heard the commotion and soon enough help arrived.  My son in law helped me and my husband off the floor of the tent as I was finally standing.

      We drove into town in the morning and bought a 3foot high mattress to finish the trip with so we could sit on the edge and stand up.  The trip concluded with everything and everyone intact except my self-esteem and pride.

      When I got home while unpacking, I began to wonder why

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