May...

 

People named after months fascinate me...what do you mean your name is April, May, June, Julia/Julie/Julio, August/Augusta/Augustine and so on...I find that so fascinating! April was a mixed bag for me, a lot was given back to me and some was taken from me. I experienced the happiest and saddest moments of the year so far in April. But in all I give thanks for that is life full of ups and downs. What I am most grateful for was a calm spirit in the midst of it all, I amazed even myself for the way I reacted to and handled challenging situations. This is definitely growth. I no longer allow things I have no control over to stress me out.

Of Fruits...

I grew up in a medical household and growing up we had to eat a fruit after every meal as per a balanced diet, you could not leave the table without eating a fruit. So once I left home for university I subconsciously rebelled against eating whole fruits, if I wanted an apple I would drink apple juice instead, if I wanted oranges I would drink orange juice instead, and it wasn’t even freshly squeezed juices oh no it was the sugar laden boxed or bottled type most of the time. It hit me almost a year in that I had not eaten whole fruits in months, and that’s when I realised that because we were not allowed to leave the table without eating a fruit, I was subconsciously rebelling against this rule because I was now “free” from childhood mealtime rules.

I “unrebelled” from eating whole fruits after this but I still did not eat them regularly it was more like 2 or 3 times a week and mostly when it was warm, because for some reason during the winter or cold rainy days I never felt like eating fruits. So recently I decided to revisit my childhood mealtime fruit ritual after a certain comment on social media. You see an unregulated  “skincare specialist” was trying to scam people into getting her ridiculously priced injections,  to which a doctor jumped into the comments and debunked her claims and advised people to just eat their fruits regularly to get all the vitamins being advertised as expensive shots.  I went back to intentionally eating fruits every single day regardless of the weather, every day just as I did as a child. And let me tell you my skin has never been clearer I was shocked at the results! I am already a person who drinks water religiously, in fact at one point I was drinking so much water as a child, I remember being taken to the doctors for a series of tests because frequent thirst can be sign of some illnesses, and I have never had a problem eating vegetables in fact I absolutely love my veggies. So I was hydrated, I was eating my veggies but I was lacking in my fruit intake so once I intentionally incorporated them into my diet as part of my daily meal my skin improved tremendously.

All this to say eat your fruits and veggies, stay hydrated with water please not alcohol and your skin will thank you for it.

Anyway here’s to a new month of May.

 

May feels like NEWNESS

May feels like RESET

May feels like GROWTH

May feels like COURAGE

 

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