Us in our first little home, almost ten years ago!
I remember it almost as though it was yesterday. I was laying on the balcony of the first apartment Hugh and I owned.
A little about this unit before I go on. We had a view of the ocean (if you stood on your tippy toes and squinted a little), crappy stained carpet, a tiny kitchen and furniture passed down from my family. It was amazing. That tiny kitchen was where I learnt to cook. I remember being in the supermarket freaking out because I had no idea what cumin was, what aisle it would be in and what it looked like. I perused the fruit and veg section for a good hour before calling a friend and asking for help.
That unit is where I came home to from the USA newly engaged, it’s where I had all my loved ones over for dinners and I sat on that crappy carpet and made our wedding decorations by hand. I can remember it all so vividly, but this certain memory always sticks out for me.
A weekday off work meant I was sitting around at home on my laptop online shopping and Facebook stalking my ex boyfriends new girlfriends cousin’s holiday in Italy when I somehow came across this free documentary that was airing for only the next day or so. I was sucked in by the fact that it was free and it was about food. At the time I was eating chocolate for almost every meal and I thought it might be time to get my butt into gear with this whole eating healthy deal. I was getting older and I knew eventually all the junk would catch up with my figure.
I took my laptop out to the balcony, spread my towels on the ground and set myself up for some sun baking and educational viewing. Because I really had nothing better to do.
Ninety minutes later, I was changed completely.
There are things you just cannot unlearn, and what I was shown in that movie about the food industry and the truth about how nourishing the “food” I was eating actually was, shook me to my core.
I had been told that processed foods weren’t good for you, to eat more vegetables and fruit, but I never really listened because I seemed to be doing fine eating everything out of a packet and not really touching any fresh produce.
But I was changed almost immediately. I went to the fruit shop down the road and stocked up on every fresh food item I could name. These were the early days of Instagram so I took a photo of my heap and posted it proudly. I spent the rest of my day off in the kitchen, tasting these weird new foods I had never tried like carrots (!!!) and I even ate a fresh tomato, not one out of a can. It was good. I was shocked. This went on for weeks. I started making raw chocolate from recipes I found online. Every single time I thought about eating, that documentary popped into my head and reminded me of what I was doing.
Since that day, I’ve been a Food Matters admirer. The movies they’ve created - Food Matters + Hungry For Change have completely shifted my life and I wouldn’t be where I am now, in my business and health, if it weren’t for them.
Better still, two years ago they created FMTV - which is like Netflix for Health and Wellness. Of course the day it launched I got my subscription sorted. Hugh and I have watched almost every movie and documentary they have available, I create recipes with instructions by people I adore like David Wolfe and Jason Vale, I do yoga with FMTV and have learnt about tapping, rebounding and meditation all through FMTV. We don’t do Netflix + chill, more like FMTV + learn (then chill) and I would rather spend my evenings expanding my mind than shrinking it with trashy TV which doesn’t really serve my wellbeing.
That is all it took. One movie that showed me that I needed to change to feel good. One movie that took me from where I was - unsatisfied, addicted to sugar and not living my full potential, to where I am now. It didn’t happen in a day, a week or even a year, but that movie was the shift I needed to feel to know that I could be better. And I feel like I definitely am.
What will be your shift?
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