Have you ever been motivated to improve your health. You started out ultra motivated, made some progress, but in time slid back into old habits? Did that make you feel like a failure? Someone incapable of improving her health?
What if you saw things differently?
Here is a simple example. You have set a goal to avoid processed food and sugar. Three days in you find yourself in the car scarfing down a Cliff bar at 4:30pm. You are mad at yourself and feel like you should quit right now. You could never be successful, so why try?
Rather than quitting, what if you took this as a time to learn? To do that, go back in time and take a look at what led up to that moment.
7:00am – You ate a perfect breakfast, then did a big workout.
12:00pm – You had a lunch that would make your coach proud.
3:00pm – You were very hungry. You had hoped your busy afternoon would keep you from snacking mindlessly and didn’t bring a healthy option to snack on.
4:00 pm – You had a hunger headache.
4:30pm – You couldn’t take it anymore. You found a Cliff bar in the glove box and knew you had to eat something in order to survive until dinner at 7pm.
Looking back, you clearly see bringing along a healthful snack like some almonds, carrots, or snap peas would have saved the day.
Now, you can forgive yourself, learn, and set yourself up for success next time. You took that fail and learned from it, rather than allowing it to derail your goals.
What you can learn from failed “diets”
Let’s say you did an experiment and tried every diet plan, eating scheme and trendy health habit that exists. Most likely, for every one you tried, there would be some things that worked for you and other things that did not.
- Maybe eating gluten free would make you more aware of where refined flour appeared in your diet and you would find alternatives you enjoyed.
- Keto might make you explore new proteins and healthful fats you hadn’t tried before.
- Vegan eating might help you pump up veggies and experiment with recipes involving beans.
Even if you didn’t adopt any of these fully, by making an effort to improve your health, your habits would evolve (hopefully) for the better.
Any attempt to pay attention to your health will pay dividends. Be proud of every effort you make. Know that any success or failure is part of the growth process. Celebrate the successes and learn from the challenges.
Change is both uncomfortable, but exciting. If you know you are ready to change, but aren’t sure how, consider:
Powerup and Reset – our online course that guides you step-by-step to Renew you commitment to healthful eating, Reset bad habits and replace them with new ones, Detoxify your body from inflammation-causing foods, Discover which foods work for, rather than against your body at this time in your life.
One-on-one Coaching, with Pamela Light, creator and founder of Perimenopause Powerup.
Check out these articles for more information on coaching and change:
Why it is Scary to Make a Health Change
Can Restricting Foods from my Diet Make me Happier?
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