What’s Your Why?
What’s your why for enjoying a healthy diet? Determining your true motivation for why you want to be healthy adds feeling and emotion to your goal, making it easier to achieve. Most people are not motivated my numbers on a scale, but they can picture themselves having more energy and feeling great.
Here are just a few very important reasons that might make your “Why Be Healthy List”:
- Increased energy to do what you love
- A sense of balance and awareness with your life
- Ability to choose what you eat, instead of being controlled by cravings
- Feeling more comfortable in your own skin
- Serving as an example to others
- Living longer and with more joy
Focusing solely on your weight will leave you always stepping on the scale and analyzing the results with your calculator. How boring, right? Health is so much more than a number! As many of you have heard me say, counting calories doesn’t work! It’s just another way to fit food into the “numbers game”, but you'll miss the bigger picture. Food is your fuel, not a mathematical equation. Food nourishes you on a very deep level and goes far beyond a point, an ounce, a calorie or a fat gram. Learning to listen to your body and discover what truly nourishes you is the key to healthy eating. Freeing yourself from the endless cycle of nutritional number crunching, willpower and deprivation is the way to truly balanced eating. And once you get there, you’ll never look back. Take it from me, I used to be a calorie counter and scale stepper. Now I know how to choose food based on the amount of energy and nourishment it will provide me. It’s a whole new way of eating and living…and it feels great! When clients come to Real Life Food to lose weight, they soon discover their true motivation was something else – the weight was just a side effect of the real motivation of increasing energy, curbing late night cravings, learning how to manage stress, or achieving balance in life – just to name a few! Start with determining your own Why and let that serve as the foundation to help you reach your goal. It’s so much more fun, and meaningful, than dieting!
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