Sunday, February 17, 2013

Simplify Simplify Simplify!

Are you food-centric or health-centric?

Most of us begin this process with a highly developed sense of foodcentricity.  I know that isn't a word, but it describes how I was to a "T".

How much of our day, prior to beginning the plan, was spent plotting what our next feeding was going to be?  Plotting and planning, salivating, driving out of our way to get our extra-special ooey gooey cinnamon bun.  Texting girlfriends about where we could meet for lunch that would really "hit the spot".  Planning our after-work get togethers around which place had the yummiest food.  Driving by Ben and Jerry's and feeling that tug, and turning around.  THEN getting a Fro-Yo a half an hour later.  THEN a churro at Costco.  THEN deciding which BBQ place we would pick up for dinner.

I remember that life.  And it is exhausting just thinking about it. 

Life is so simple on the 5&1, if you allow it to be.  If you stop obsessing over what you can't have. 

You see, if you remain food-centric, it is hard to turn your attention ON to health.  You may still be admiring the shiny shiny things in the window and wishing you didn't "have" to be on a "diet".

There IS a way to turn your attitude around, but it will take being mindful and intentional about it. 

Focus on health.  Think about the things you WILL be able to do when you get to "healthy!".  Think about what your life has the potential to be like, if you will just get your eyes off the food.

Practice the Habits of Health by deciding what you want to create with this whole process, and focusing on THAT.  Focusing on THAT and looking FORWARD means you can't be focusing on the yummy food and looking BACKWARD.  Where we LOOK is the direction we HEAD.

Where are YOU headed?  Towards health?  Or towards the yummy food?  Because we often get what we want.

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