Life does need balance, to avoid prolonged stress as much as possible. I try to know what my soul wants. You can probably see that I mostly try to live a healthy lifestyle.
But life is life. We can't lose pleasure. If we eliminate pleasure, our minds will create a different mechanism, and make the body hate living a healthy life.
So I work around that by not avoiding sweet things at all. I just have a different mechanism for now. Instead of avoiding sweet foods one hundred percent, I enjoy sweet foods once in a while.
Excessive or lacking is also not good. So I try to apply full awareness. What I eat in a day, a week, and so on.
Today my schedule is upper body workout. I work out for almost half an hour. It feels quite tiring but makes me fresher all day.
Then, I also do yoga to close my workout. I do yoga for quite a long time while practicing breathing techniques. I added some time with meditation to calm my mind.
So, on this hot afternoon, I didn't mind stopping by a local dessert stall that is famous in my place.
In fact, it's been a long time since I ate sweet desserts like this. A kind of banana dish served in sweet coconut milk sauce.
In fact, this place has been open since I was little. In the past, they only sold it from a small cart. But now their business has grown and has its own building.
Front of the shop, screenshot from Google Maps
Now they don't only sell desserts, but they also serve other traditional foods. Like satay, and meatballs.
I ordered banana coconut milk dessert. This dessert consists of many tempting fillings!
In addition to boiled bananas, there are black sticky rice, cassava tape (fermented cassava), tapioca pearls, and pieces of bread. Well, there is also a filling of red, chewy palm fruit, similar to jelly.
Coconut milk tastes quite sweet with a combination of brown sugar. With the addition of ice cubes, the overall taste is not sweet and that's good because I don't like it too sweet.
With a combination of various fillings that complement each other, it creates a delicious taste. From the past until now, the taste of this dessert has never changed. That's why their customers are increasing, and they have to enlarge their sales area.
After I ate the delicious dessert, I took the time to walk to an area that caught my eye! A green corner. There is a mini garden owned by the owner of this dessert seller.
The green corner, the mini garden is planted with ornamental flowers, and grapes! What amazed me more was that the grape trees were already bearing fruit! There were green grapes and red grapes!
All of this looked very comforting to my heart. Even though it was quite hot today, the green corner here made me happy.
Well, the most important thing is don't forget to accompany it with exercise, so that we can still enjoy the food we want. With reasonable portions, not excessive. Always healthy for us!
Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari
Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.
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