My Diet Starts Tomorow

Sound familiar?

My grandmother always had a magnet on the fridge (or maybe it was the dishwasher) that said "My diet starts tomorrow." She was ALWAYS either on a diet or planning her next diet, always.

It becomes a vicious cycle and next thing you know it becomes a habit. Not a good habit.

Doesn't it seem like you find a diet that works but as soon as you fall off the wagon you blame the diet for not working anymore? Or if you're like me, you just let your A.D.D. take over and you either get bored or simply forget that you were even following a plan!

So here is what I decided to do a few years ago.

#1- I stopped thinking of the word 'diet' as a "Four Letter Word."
       I now see 'diet' as the primary definition in Webster's Dictionary:
                      "the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats."
#2- I cleaned up my 'diet' by adding more whole foods and reducing my processed foods. I began reading labels more and putting a lot of things back on the shelf once I saw the crap ingredients or the high sugar content.
#3- I began drinking MORE water!
#4- I began drinking LESS alcohol and sodas.
#5- I now see it as a 'Healthy Lifestyle' that I live, not a roller coaster of calorie counting and food restrictions.

Am I perfect?
Hell, no!

I follow the 80/20 principle now that I am comfortable with my lifestyle, What does that mean?
It means that I try to eat clean and healthy 80% of the time and that I allow myself to induldge 20% of the time. (If you know me, you know that I am not actually working out these numbers in my head. Numbers make my skin crawl.) 

I simply know that #1, I am going to want a brownie at some point, or a cheeseburger (not a turkey burger) at the baseball field. And #2, I know that I have eaten and exercised adequately for my health so that one or two 'heavy' or 'unhealthy' treats or meals is not going to undo all that I have worked for. Doesn't that sound fair?

So my challenge for you is to STOP planning out your next diet, and the one after that. Change your mindset. If you insist on saying,
"Nothing has worked for me!"
Then I must insist that you tack on these 2 words to that sentence...
"UNTIL NOW."

I have a few ideas in my tool kit that can help you if you're ready. I can provide YOU with some of those tools as well. We can design a simple strategy together to get your lifestyle cleaned up or we can start talking about those cute little color coordinated portion control containers. Either way, when you are ready (or thinking about wanting to get ready) then we should talk about filling YOUR tool kit.

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