There are many things in life that you can experience just by taking the road that runs across the top of those things, but to really experience something completely you have to dig deeper or dive into it. This is very true when you are establishing a daily routine of nutritional dieting. Actually the thought we mostly have in our minds when someone says they are "on a diet" is that they are eating less or eating special foods to loose weight. As that may be true in some cases it is not true in all cases. The diet I am referring to here and that we are living by is not that sort of diet. We are establishing a new way or habit of eating healthy and nutritionally. Not just to loose weight. I know I have said that before but I really mean it. I want to get to that ideal weight range but most importantly is that I have to train my body to something completely foreign to it. t least foreign in respect to the fact that I have let it eat just about everything it wanted to eat or thought was tasty...and lots of it.
There is the digging deeper part now that has become apparent. Digging involves getting my mind and soul into what I am doing. I have to spend more time working on the mental attitude of living and eating a different way. I don't mean that you should do thinking exercises, but training yourself to think of your eating as a sort of sacred function and dedicating yourself to the fulfilling of the purpose you have before you. The deeper part is finding those way to do it. Being willing to go the extra mile and doing things that you normally just wouldn't do. Not giving in to temptation and not giving up. You work hard to get to a place where you are preparing and eating healthy foods, staying on track with your exercise program and making your daily routine an enjoyable time of knowing that there is a reward for all that labor you are investing. Don't give up and give in to the impulses your body throws your way. Fight it like you would an enemy who is threatening your life because in reality that is what your mind will do if it is left to it's own ways.
I am working on a new website that is all about diets, nutrition and exercise. Basically, it is a web site that shows you how to stay fit and eat right. There are tips for the over 40 crowd mostly, but anyone can use these tips to stay healthy and not skate across the surface of an unhealthy way of nutritional and physical life. In one section I talked about how there has to be a little room for "cheating" so as not to blow your entire investment by being so rigid with yourself that your kill your desire for a healthy lifestyle. I'm not advocating that you just eat whatever you feel like eating, whenever you feel like it, but that you put a huge amount of effort into staying on track and then temper that with some reasonable visits to the untouchable section once in a while. Just be reasonable. Go there for a one time visit and then get back on track. What I mean by that is this.
I am eating my meals daily at home and eating the foods that are on my nutrition plan and then a friend invites me to lunch. I go to lunch looking for something on the menu that fits my eating plan and don't see a lot of options. Do I tell my friend I can't eat there or eat the side salad and look like an ungrateful jerk? (My friend is paying for lunch) No, I find something on the menu that is reasonably close to my eating plan and splurge a little bit. Maybe I order the dish without the cheese or leave the sour cream off. Maybe I don't order the biggest size entree and I make sure that I include some veggies on the side. Whatever the case my be, I do something reasonable this time because I am not always going to be eating out at restaurants and my main eating plan is provided at home with my normal nutritional food selections. Make sense? Be sensible. One lunch is not going to make or break your whole eating plan. Just make sure you go back to your plan and stay on the plan as the normal life style.
I will direct you to the website I am building in another blog post as I am not ready to publicly open it up to everyone. You will however find it if you search through the posts here as I have made mention of it elsewhere. Just understand that it is a work in progress right now and it will not be completely up to date on everything I want to offer. Soon, very soon. In the mean time, dig deeper and go the extra mile when temptation becomes apparent. And when you are stuck for an answer and there is a decision before you to eat otherwise on occasion, be sensible and eat something reasonable. You can do it. It's our new way of life.
