Insanity

Once someone told me that insanity is the ability to do the same thing everyday and expect different results. One of the definitions of insanity is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior. As I sit down to write this new blog I am reminded that everything I put into my body counts.  I cannot keep eating the same things over and over and expect a different result.  So my dilemma, I like potatoes, I like nuts, those have become my filler foods.  Those foods are not against my protocol, I plan those foods.  They are not flour and they are not sugar so they are OK to eat.  The problem is they do not help me reach my goal.  The past year as I have learned to listen to my body and try to decide what is best for my health and what is not best for my health, I've learned that potatoes and nuts are just filler foods for me.  I like them and they help me feel full.  My goal is not to fill full.  My goal is to eat to live not live to eat.  There are so many things I am doing right so, now I am going to change my mindset to eat to live.  Do I need food YES!  We need food to live, It matters what we eat.  Do I need potatoes to live, NO.  Do I need nuts to live, NO.  I learned this last week that if I want to reach my goal, I need to change my mind set to the person that I want to become.  If I want to be a person that weighs 150#, I need to think like a person that weighs 150#.  That is what I am working on.  What does a person that weighs 150# eat?
To change the way I think, I need to focus on what I am doing right first.  I need to focus on the positive and acknowledge the negative but don't focus on it.  Focus on what is going good in my life.  My son reminded me of that.  We all have so much good in our life.  We need to focus on that first and foremost.  My new insanity is to change what I am thinking to make my life better. I think that will always be my goal, if we don't like what our results are in life, then we need to change the way we think and what we are doing.

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