Confessions of a Cooking Fool

8/2/21

• How can we change to a healthy diet?
  • Stick to realistic expectations
    • Small steps big results
    • Set small goals to achieve rather than larger than life goals that may be harder to achieve
  • Think about what really motivate you
    • Keep in mind that other people can not motivate you, they can encourage you, cheer you on, and be a great support system. But only you can motivate yourself
  • Keep unhealthy foods out of the house, or at minimum, foods that you know you can not control yourself around.
    • Portion snacks before you go sit down to eat them
    • Keep good snack in stock at all times
  • Don’t have an all or nothing approach
    • Life is not black and white
    • There is no can’t
    • Everything in moderation
    • Don’t deny yourself
  • Carry Healthy Snacks
    • Try to have at least one snack with you wherever you go
    • Remember that 2 or 3 bites can often cure a craving
  • Exercise and change diet at the same time
    • I find that when you put in the work to exercise you feel better and this gives the motivation to eat better so that your hard work exercising is not wasted
  • Have a game plan before eating out
    • Think of where you might go out to eat
    • Check out the menu online
    • Find things that you might like to try
    • Have several options
    • Remember you don’t have to finish everything on your plate
  • Practice mindful eating
    • Try not to eat while you are doing other things this could cause you to graze and consume more food
    • Try to relax when you eat, set time aside for it
  • Track and Monitor your progress
    • I weigh daily
    • I track weight weekly
    • I always am planning the next meal
    • I don’t worry about food prepping so much as i get bored eating the same things all the time
  • How can we apply these things to each of us individually
    • Set small goals
      • Buy a new shirt or pair of pants one size smaller then you are wearing now. Your reward., your accomplishment
      • Break up your overall goals into smaller steps
    • Eating out
      • Buy whatever you want to try
      • Have a few bites
      • Invite friends and share
      • Have that bite of desert
    • Motivation
      • Be accountable to someone
      • Share your goals with others
      • Talk about things
      • Try to encourage someone else this will give you motivation to succeed

What Motivation

• relating to the reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way.
  
  
• designed to promote the desire or willingness to do or achieve something.
• Three types of motivation

• Extrinsic. Doing an activity to attain or avoid a separate outcome. Chances are, many of the things you do each day are extrinsically motivated. …
  • Doing things to avoid or gain an external goal
    • The Basic Need to survive
• Intrinsic. An internal drive for success or sense of purpose.
  • Doing things to attain an internal goal or feeling…
    • Things you do for yourself
• Family. Motivated by the desire to provide for your loved ones.
  • Things you do for others
• Hopefully you have a balance of all three
• They can all be combined and should be combined into a healthier lifestyle
  • Often times the Family motivation doesn’t give us the intrinsic motivation to think about our own life and health
• How can I change that?
  • Try thinking that if you better yourself then you can also and will most definitely increase your capacity to change the extrinsic and family motivation as well
    • If we don’t take care of ourselves we can’t help anyone else .
  • Motivation is about self always and how it affects you, people can not motivate you.
    • Fill your life with encouragers and this will allow your inner motivation to shine
    • Give to your job.
    • Cake care of yourself
    • Give to others
  • By encouraging others yourself you are motivating yourself to do better, achieve more, not look back. I can do it attitude.
  • Always look to the next step
  • Never settle for where you are.
  • Strive for success, mentally emotionally and physically
  • Don’t be ashamed when you have to talk to or take advice from your peers.
• I had to seek out help and advice from someone ½ my age and it has been some of the best advice and growth I have ever had in my life.
• Don’t give up. Don’t look for motivation, be motivated for yourself so that you can encourage others.