My skin is acting up. My stomach isn’t doing much better. My energy level is off-the-charts low, bottomed out.
I know exactly what I have to do to get myself back on track.
We know the drill:
Eat more fruits and veggies and less sugar. Get a little exercise. Lay off the caffiene and the alcohol. Shop for healthy things so that you have healthy choices on hand.
There is nothing complicated about the solution. I don’t need a diet plan to remind me to eat less crap and to be a little kinder to my body.
I think it’s the idea of days, weeks and months of trying to make the right choices that leaves me burnt out before I even get started and then I’m reaching for the Nutella again.
And I realized, why not just focus on my next meal?
That would be easier than worrying about weeks and weeks of future decisions.
So for now, I’m going to focus on lunch. I’m going to choose foods that nourish my body and calm down the storm brewing.
And I’ll worry about dinner later.
(I’m pretty sure this could be applied to all decisions in our lives. But as I have a stare down with another cup of coffee, I’m fighting it on the food front today.)
I just read somewhere (I cannot find the article) a diet advice that reminded me a previous text your wrote on the blog. They recommended to try to stop and sit for 10 minutes each time we feel the need to reach for “bad” food and think about why we want that type of food at that specific moment. Could not do it last night when I reached for the gummy bears bag…but It sounds like a good idea to try.
Very interesting…I bet that pause does help. Sometimes for me, it’s not even wanting a certain food, it’s laziness in not taking the time to put together something different. And other times, I’m making the wrong choice and then it’s over before I even realize it!