It’s easy to be negative, beat yourself up and focus on everything you are doing wrong.
It takes work to focus on the good you are doing.
Again I’m going to use my husband as an example for this blog.
My husband always has 80-page Hilroy lined books lying around (kitchen counter, dresser, dinner table). One of these are dedicated to writing down the good things he does for his health.
You won’t find him writing down the pizza, beer or chocolate chip cookies.
You will find eggs, oats, carrots, grapes, cucumber, lemon water, salmon, sprouted bread, kefir, etc.
He knows if he writes the good things he is doing he will eat more good things and in turn eat less “bad” things. He even misses writing down a lot of the good things he eats but says that’s not the point.
It’s important to do it for a while because you can glance back once in a while and you know you’ve been doing well. Us humans need to see the proof. And, we like to see small “wins”. It keeps us going.
It helps when you are having a bad day or two. It’s easy to get off track and say I’ve been eating horribly the last while, which actually might not be the case. You can glance at the book and know just last week you were doing really well.
We can tend to focus on the negative and even exaggerate it.
FOCUS on the GOOD.
Try it for 3 weeks.
Take a note book.
Write down a date.
Just log your flights or steps or any workouts on the left side of the page.
On the right side write down the “Good” foods you are eating.
Nothing negative.
Then repeat it the next day.