Do you have an all-or-nothing view of nutrition? You are either dieting or not dieting. Eating healthy or not eating healthy.
The problem with this approach is that it creates the mindset that good nutrition requires 100% adherence and anything short of that simply isn't worth it. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
When it comes to nutrition, I like to think about stringing together the good days. Even the good meals. If I have a bad day of nutrition, a day where I completely blow off any responsibility to fuel my body correctly, how do I string together as many good days in a row after that? If I am traveling and enjoying myself or in situations where quality food is harder to come by, how do I string together a couple of decent meals in between the not-so-decent ones?
This approach changes the mindset from nutrition requiring 100% adherence to understanding that every time we put something good in our bodies, there is an increase in health. And the more often we can do this the better off our health will be.
Nutrition is not all-or-nothing. Even an 80/20 approach of good diet/bad diet is far superior to putting no thought into the food we eat or giving in to every single craving experience.
If you fell off the wagon this weekend or even yesterday, there’s no time to beat yourself up and certainly no time to continue the slide with your discipline. It’s time to get back on the horse and start stringing together those days of making strong nutrition decisions.
Thanks for reading,
Chris Irvin
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