Post written by Dharini Woollcombe
How to Achieve the Ultimate Actor’s Body Through Food
- Remove refined sugars, processed foods and as many packaged foods as you can from your daily food intake, and replace with wholesome, healthier alternatives.
- Eat things that are as close to their natural state as possible.
- Watch the fruits of your labor: better energy, better skin, balanced weight.
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What you eat enables you to function. So it makes sense that you are what you eat.
So what does that make YOU?
An Actor who is part of the fast-food chain?
An Actor who is considered easy, fast and cheap?
An Actor with no real substance? (Please say no.)
It makes you think doesn’t it.
What we eat shows in our bodies, inside and out. I worry about my weight, my skin, and my over all appearance. How can I not? As an Actor it is near impossible not to worry about these things to some degree. What we look like is a big part (like it or not) of what we are selling. We are our product.
So the question is how do we improve our packaging? There are three key ingredients that will immediately create a New and Improved quality:
Regular Exercise
Good Sleep
Real Food
Real Food. I am a little obsessed with this one these days. Let me tell you why.
It all started about a year ago. My husband began reading about food. He read books about how various animals are bred, fed and farmed. He read books about how and why vegetables have changed in size and nutritional value over the years (money and politics). He read books about why industrial corn (it’s chemical by-products) is found in practically everything that is packaged (money and politics). He read books about why processed foods exist (money and politics). He continues to read everything about how our food comes to be.
What started as summer reading has become a lifelong goal and has dramatically changed our lives. We now eat whole foods, as much local and organic as we can, and have seriously cut down on refined sugars. The differences we’ve felt in mind, body and soul are incredible: I have better stamina through the day with no afternoon slump, my skin is clearer and softer, I tend to be less moody and irritable, and I am at a healthy, easily sustainable weight. (And yes, I still enjoy treats.)
See, you don’t need to repackage yourself…just make sure the ingredients are high quality.
Think about how this translates into every day living, into minimizing our carbon footprints, and even into our Auditions and acting work.
The best part? You can start this change all by yourself. I swear. No gadgets, no powders, no supplements. “How?” you ask. Just read an article, or pick up a book. And then read another. And another. EDUCATED EATING changes our understanding of the most basic necessity for life. Eating for your body begins by educating yourself about where your food comes from.
It’s that simple…and interesting!
Educate yourself and choose how you want to feed yourself. Trust me, if you read some of the stuff we’ve been reading, you can’t help but change your food choices. Some of the things that happen to our foods before we put it in our mouths are morally wrong and some of them are absolutely disgusting .
So why finance pharmaceutical agendas and “cheap and easy” politics?
Why not support the struggling, local farmers who offer unprocessed and non-altered foods.
Why not go to the market and get fresh vegetables and meats, and raw, unprocessed honey or maple syrup.
Why not experiment and try out good whole foods for a few weeks and see what happens.
Why not ask about the real, fundamental differences between organic and non-organic.
Why not learn about what you’re actually putting in your mouth and inside your body, and make an educated choice.
Knowledge is power, they say. So why not empower yourself with the information to make that choice. Seriously, WHY NOT.
Our bodies are all we have in this lifetime. There is no warranty and no money back. This vessel is it. And the Actor that eats real food glows with HEALTH radiates ENERGY, CONFIDENCE and WELL BEING. Who doesn’t want to work with that?
Educate yourself about food, make choices and change how you feel about yourself. The first step in taking care of our Actor Selves is by feeding our bodies responsibly.
So fuel up on information on how to feed your Actor Self and eat! Eat well.