| In my work as an adoption professional, I get | | | | and then add or replace it with healthy food. |
| emails from people sharing with me that they are | | | | Next time you are at the grocery store, just add |
| trying to cut back and save money during their | | | | up what it costs for chips, cookies and sodas. |
| adoption. While this is good, there are some areas | | | | Now compare to nutritious foods like fresh fruits, |
| that are just too valuable to skimp on. Your | | | | vegetables, lean meats and grains. You will see |
| nutrition is one of those areas. | | | | just how much farther your dollars go when you |
| Good nutritious food and a healthy diet can keep | | | | invest in real and nutritious food. You will also feel |
| you going during the ups and downs of adoption. | | | | better and live longer. What's really unaffordable is |
| The process of adoption can be stressful and you | | | | a rotten diet. Garbage in, garbage out and you'll |
| need to be in top shape to perform and respond | | | | reap what you sow. Consider your health as an |
| well. Often women who have experienced | | | | asset in your adoption that deserves care and |
| infertility have hormonal problems (I speak from | | | | attention. |
| experience here) and if we don't eat properly we | | | | In my adoption, I was very healthy and active, |
| can get cranky to say the least. | | | | but my husband and I were overweight. I had |
| Many birth mothers call in a panic and state that | | | | one young prospective birth mother tell me that |
| their lives feel out of control. I often ask them if | | | | she wanted to place her unborn baby with a |
| they have eaten and 99% of the time they have | | | | healthy and thin couple only. While not all birth |
| not eaten or they have only eaten junk food. | | | | mothers share this view, they do want someone |
| Healthy food is good fuel and is a must have | | | | who will be around long enough to parent their |
| when you are stressed. I am not speaking of | | | | child and be a good role model in a healthy |
| chocolate- though quality chocolate can help after | | | | environment. |
| having a healthy meal. (Smile) | | | | You'd never put low-grade fuel in your car, so |
| Some couples share that they can only "afford" | | | | how can you justify low-grade fuel for your |
| cheap foods like boxed macaroni and cheese and | | | | family? Healthy is wealthy. Start now by making |
| on sale hot dogs. They feel that buying fresh | | | | these changes, so your child will have a healthy |
| nutritious produce and healthier foods are too | | | | parent and you will have healthy children with a |
| expensive. Yet healthy food IS affordable when | | | | long life to live it together. |
| you cut out or cut down the junk food in your life | | | | |