"I Just Want to Eat Normally!" Do you?

Have you ever found yourself just wanting the "Getting to a healthy weight" phase of the program over with so you could "eat normally" again?

This is a very real desire that we all may wrestle with at some point or other in our journeys towards optimal health.

Let me offer you a different perspective on it.  Do you REALLY want to "eat normal"?

Firstly, doing what we've always done will get us what we've always got.  Think about that, Is that REALLY we want after all our hard work?

Secondly, the idea of "normal" in this country is what has 2/3rd's of Americans being overweight and fully HALF of those overweight Americans are OBESE.  So, "normal" is overweight or obese.  Being a healthy  weight is actually the EXCEPTION.  People who are a healthy weight are the MINORITY.

Some people who are a healthy weight remain so because their bodies naturally tend towards that.  Some people are a healthy weight because they intentionally, mindfully work at it.

Since only about 5-15% of people who lose a significant amount of weight maintain their losses for two years or more, that means those of us who have done that, who ARE in the healthy weight range, are the minority of the minority (of the minority of the minority....it feels like one of those pictures of a mirror with a picture of a mirror with a picture of a mirror....I digress.....).

So tell me, do we REALLY WANT to eat "NORMALLY" to "BE NORMAL" or do we WANT to eat EXCEPTIONALLY to be EXCEPTIONAL?

I choose the latter, every day.

Do you know who else chooses "Exceptional?"

Olympic quality and elite athletes. 
Henry Cavill a.k.a "Superman" (had to throw that in there, if you have seen any of his interviews about his work-out/eating regimen while training for and shooting the Man of Steel movie, you will see what I mean!)

Exceptional in this context means that you are comfortable with and striving towards your health goals.  You have lived the life of a "normal" American adult, and it did NOT bring you peace and joy.  In fact, quite the opposite, it brought you heartache and emotional conflict and pain such that you made a decision to NOT BE THAT WAY ANYMORE.

Our bodies are our bodies, we can't swap 'em out for bodies that DON'T store extra calories/carbs etc as fat. Our bodies will always do that, we have not and will not change that propensity.  What we HAVE accomplished by losing the excess adipose tissue (long-term energy storage) is that we have brought our bodies back in to energy balance.  We are no longer hoarders of calories on our person.  We are also living a life, those of us who have done that, which is necessarily more active, because we make routine activity a habit.

I want  eat exceptionally,  move exceptionally, and live exceptionally.

How about you?