Today I mark the two week anniversary of my no-wheat resolution. I've also ditched sugar, including honey and fruit. These might not be the dietary changes that everyone needs to make to get their health pointed in the right direction but they're working for me.
For most of us the hard part isn't knowing what to do so much as knowing how to do it. I recently sat in on my partner's appointment with a nutritionist. After taking in a fourty minute eat-this-not-that lecture we skadaddled out of the office and my partner stopped at a convenience store for a Coke. He knew that the Coke was bad for him; neither of us needed the nutritionist to tell us that. What my partner didn't know is how to stop drinking Coke. Given how hard life is for many of us, given our frazzled emotions and ongoing worries, how do we put aside guaranteed momentary pleasure for some promised but as yet unseen benefit in the distant future?
Thank you for bringing up so many important issues. It is hard to change behavior when the consequences of your actions today seem to only impact the future. I found it helpful to ask how I felt when I consumed the food/drink before, during and after. Does it make you feel the way you want? Another way that I personally made changes to my diet was to literally SEE what different foods did to my blood sugar. I wore a continuous glucose monitor for 60 days and I could visualize what it was doing to me and how it made me feel (ie huge spike then crash from the carbs or sugar = brain fog, fatigue, hunger, poor sleep). Lastly, we think it's a problem with willpower but sugar is highly addictive and the physical cravings are very real. My next post will be all about diet and blood sugar and I hope to share what I learned and some easy next steps!
Today I mark the two week anniversary of my no-wheat resolution. I've also ditched sugar, including honey and fruit. These might not be the dietary changes that everyone needs to make to get their health pointed in the right direction but they're working for me.
For most of us the hard part isn't knowing what to do so much as knowing how to do it. I recently sat in on my partner's appointment with a nutritionist. After taking in a fourty minute eat-this-not-that lecture we skadaddled out of the office and my partner stopped at a convenience store for a Coke. He knew that the Coke was bad for him; neither of us needed the nutritionist to tell us that. What my partner didn't know is how to stop drinking Coke. Given how hard life is for many of us, given our frazzled emotions and ongoing worries, how do we put aside guaranteed momentary pleasure for some promised but as yet unseen benefit in the distant future?
Thank you for bringing up so many important issues. It is hard to change behavior when the consequences of your actions today seem to only impact the future. I found it helpful to ask how I felt when I consumed the food/drink before, during and after. Does it make you feel the way you want? Another way that I personally made changes to my diet was to literally SEE what different foods did to my blood sugar. I wore a continuous glucose monitor for 60 days and I could visualize what it was doing to me and how it made me feel (ie huge spike then crash from the carbs or sugar = brain fog, fatigue, hunger, poor sleep). Lastly, we think it's a problem with willpower but sugar is highly addictive and the physical cravings are very real. My next post will be all about diet and blood sugar and I hope to share what I learned and some easy next steps!