So much of our celebrations and life experiences revolve around food. But we encourage you to make it about the memories and not about the food.

In our society today, where there's so much processed food and so many restaurants to choose from and there's celebrations and anniversaries and birthdays and dinner, everything is so centered around food. That just wasn't our situation growing up.

If you're caught in this cycle of making your life about the food instead of the memories, even if your family still is that way because we have families that are struggling with that right now. All the holiday traditions are about food and they're trying to lose weight. All of the vacations are about food and they're still trying to lose weight.

If your relationships are built on memories and love and communication and fellowship and closeness and sharing of your spirit with each other, it wouldn't matter if Cari and I were sitting at a Denny's having a $2 meal or in Turks and Caicos having a hundred dollar meal - we would have the same experience.

You can change the trajectory of your children. If you stop and change now, don't let any more time go by while you're on this current path. Turn and walk a different direction and start planning things differently. 

Yeah, make life about the memories and your brain will start to shift away from food and you will be free. It's so freeing to be able to go on vacation, not be stressed about what you're going to eat and when you're going to eat it. Just go and have a good time.

Stay tuned for more.

Key Points of Discussion:

• When it comes to our childhood, we never think about the food part. And you too - Make it about the memories (6:16)
• Good job on Mom's part in really making sure that our memories were around the actual family times together (7:55)
• When you are eating processed food, processed carbs, and sugar, it does hijack your brain (17:52)
• Cari says when I tell her my story of going to Europe, it never has anything to do with the food that I ate there (19:55)
• Food was never more than fuel to them… (19:56)
• “Vacationing is just eating in a different place.” - Jim Gaffigan (21:20)
• They genetically engineer those foods to make you want to crave more… (23:13)
• Instead of going for a family meal, we're going to get to know about Army bases… (24:46)
• Do your research for sure on family vacations… (26:13)
• Start getting a different vacationing. Just make it a little different this time (32:08)
• Make life about the memories and your brain will start to shift away from food and you will be free (34:04)

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