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So, Christmas Day has been and gone for another year.
Hopefully you had a nice time and got loads of presents you like.
Supposedly how many presents you get depends on whether you’ve been “good or bad”.
“Naughty or nice”.
Which list of Santa’s we made.
Often used to incentivise better behaviour in children in the last few months of the year.
They are words we sometimes use when we talk about our eating too.
“I’ve been good this week”.
“I was a bit naughty over the weekend”.
The latter often said with a little grin and cheeky sideways look.
And I, of course, get that it’s said as a bit of fun.
But we’ve mentioned many times that the words we use can be the steering wheel of the mind.
How our words drive our thoughts, which drives our actions, behaviours, habits and results.
Does describing our eating as “good” or “naughty” serve us?
Help us get the results we’d like?
If it does, then that’s cool.
Crack on!
If not, it might be worth questioning.
The dictionary defines “good” as;
“having the required qualities”
And ‘”naughty” as;
“badly behaved”
Where “bad” is;
“of poor quality or a low standard”
or
“not such as to be hoped for or desired”
And behaviour is;
“the way in which an animal or person acts or conducts oneself in response to a particular situation or stimulus”
So when we’re “naughty” we’re choosing poor quality actions.
Conducting ourselves in a way we didn’t hope for.
Sounds a little bit less appealing than when we think of a slice of cake as “a bit naughty” doesn’t it?
Doesn’t mean we can’t have the slice of cake, of course.
We could still have the cake (feel free to replace cake with anything else).
Just choose not to see it as ‘naughty’.
Just one of a number of foods that we ate.
That we gained pleasure from.
And made work as part of an average for the day or week.
No guilt and beating ourselves up over.
Over the years I must have been asked “aren’t you ever naughty?” hundreds, if not thousands, of times.
When I check what they mean, it’s always stuff I do do.
Or used to before I got married 😉
It wasn’t ‘naughty’ though.
It was good.
Great fun.
All part of an average that meant there was no need for guilt and regret.
Eating in a calorie surplus over Christmas doesn’t have to be considered ‘naughty’.
I’d consider it good to be honest.
It had the required qualities of being an enjoyable few days.
It might mean we need to average out with some deficit elsewhere.
But that’s fine.
No biggie.
No emotion needed.
———– If you’re ready to challenge the way you think about healthier eating and exercise and make some lasting changes (rather than just re-joining the same gym or diet club as every other January), then our find out more meeting for the January programme (and the ’20lbs in 8 weeks’ and ‘Beach Body’ challenges) is tomorrow night now –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting ————-
Much love,
Jon ‘Always make sure I have the required qualities’ Hall
