045 New Mindset: You Can Eat Whatever, Whenever, and However Much

While a first-year university student I strictly followed [insert fad diet]. I kept to it except when I felt deprived, limited, or constrained. For example, at a family party my aunt, a gourmet cook and baker, served a delicious entrée coupled with a dessert table covered in a variety of sweet options. I know because I tried many of them. The lemon bars were exquisite.

In hindsight, how hypocritical I must’ve looked indulging in the sweets I outwardly had so adamantly condemned. I remember a moment behind the dessert table hovering over the lemon bars looking up making eye contact with my aunt. At that moment I knew that she knew that I knew I was not living what I preached.

Have you ever felt this way? Have you ever felt out of control when it comes to food and eating? Who among us—given the plenteous availability of delicious options—hasn’t indulged at least once?

So what’s the best way to eat in an ever-challenging nutritional environment? What match are we against advertising expert food giants who have engineered offerings so that we crave them more and feel satisfied less? (Moss, 2014).

First, know you’re not alone. Learning to feed ourselves well is challenging! But it can be learned as we support each other.

Second, you have power to choose within you and you can do it. And you must do it because the quality of your present and future life depends on it. http://you-thrive.net/2021/12/02/not-if-but-when/

Third, Whatever you want your quality of life to be choose today and align your habits and behaviors with your desired future.

Pro Tip:

Adopt this mindset: I have no restrictions. I can choose to eat whatever I want, however much I want, whenever I want to. That is up to me. Because it is. This thought is liberating. The human mind is such that when it feels deprived it desires that thing even more. Remove the perceived restriction and take back control.

Now in control, see your 80 year old heathy, thriving self. Intentionally make choices to make your vision come true.

Moss, M. (2014, February 18). Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Reprint). Random House Trade Paperbacks. 28-29.