The mind is a powerful thing. We have the ability to control or change how we perceive ourselves and the world around us. Our mindset at any moment can change a joyful moment into a negative one with a just a random thought. That is a powerful ability of the consciousness. One that people still have a difficult time understanding. An entire profession is devoted to helping people understand our own minds: Psychology. Why does this matter in dieting you say? Well believe it or not, food to many of us has an emotional tie. It’s rooted deep. Thinking of a childhood memory of baking cookie with your mom, or celebrating your child’s first birthday with cake, or the smell of thanksgiving food cooking while gathered with family. All these tie food to emotion. And psychologically we tend to fall back on these sensories to bring us comforts. Food makes us happy, and we tend to give it a place of fulfillment that never truly gets fulfilled It’s never lasting, and we’re always looking to refill. So when we try and diet sometimes we tend to fall of the wagon when we hit an emotional hardship or we just wanna feel cozy again.
Sometimes we tell ourselves that being on a diet is temporary, and that once we achieve our goal we can enjoy those things again. But the idea that living healthy is temporary is just going to land you right back in the place you were in before you started making better choices. We’ve heard the term yo-yo diets. Well most of the time that happens because the changes we make aren’t permanent. We fall back to the psychological comfort of foods and forget what it was that we’re trying to achieve in the first place. So we have to work on our minds just as hard as we work on our bodies. Changing our Vision of dieting from a temporary plan into a permanent way of living. You’re not letting go of those memories by changing how you celebrate them. We have to relearn how to bring ourselves fulfillment in ways that don’t destroy our accomplishments. Living is worth the changes you’re fighting for. You’re worth it, I promise you. That meal you feel you emotionally need at the moment isn’t going to remember you when you’re gone. It isn’t going to care if your here to love or cherish as you grow old. This subject is an emotional one for me. Being a wife, and a mother, I want to have all the time I can possibly get to spend with my husband and children. I want my husband to see his grand babies. I want to share those experiences together, and the struggle of fighting for his life and our life together away from the grips of high blood pressure and obesity has been a gut wrenching experience. Until my husband started keto, he’s never really been able to fully understand the emotional things I would express, until he went through the experience of fighting for his heath. We all deserve the ability to live as long as possible. It’s the mindset that hinders is from achieving that possibility.
