How do you define healthy eating?
Go on stop for a moment and actually come up with a definition.
What did you put?
I should imagine it was quite full on wasn’t it?
Involved eating mainly green veg and, perhaps, lean meat?
Zero alcohol?
Maybe drinking nothing but water?
Probably no cake, biscuits and ice cream?
Definitely no take out.
Or eating out.
Zero social life possibly?
Whatever you put, I should imagine it looked pretty miserable.
Didn’t look like something you’d particularly want to do?
And, from my experience, that’s normally one of the major problems in our attempts to do “healthy eating”.
What we set out to do is so challenging and different from what we’re used to that we invariably set ourselves up for failure.
The moment that isn’t happening, because we have something we’ve deemed to be “unhealthy”, we feel that we failed and that we need to start again at some point.
What if I told you didn’t need to do “healthy eating” to get in better shape?
Just “healthier eating”.
A few better choices than you could have made otherwise, that will be enough to take you in the direction you want to go in.
Not eating like a nutritionist or a professional athlete.
“Healthy eating” is cool if you think you can do it all the time.
Off that earlier definition, I definitely couldn’t.
“Healthier eating” (or “healthy enough eating”) will do me fine.
And, maybe, the same for you?
Much love,
Jon ‘Start vouchers’ Hall
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