Small Step #13. Read the Labels
Before: the peanut butter I used to eat–“hydrogenated vegetable oil”! Yikes!
After: My two-ingredient do-to peanut butter of choice.
Small Step #12. Eat Real Sugar
If we’re striving to eat food closer to the plant in the ground and not the factory plant, this serves our goal.
Small Step #11. Eat Real Food
The advice that I’ve tried to follow in my quest for health is to eat real food. The ingredient label for a sweet potato is : sweet potato. Brussel sprouts: brussel sprouts. You get the gist.
Small Change #9. Just Say “NO”
You know those donuts in the office break room would taste delicious, but you also know they’re not on your plan for getting to your health goals. Who wants to tell themselves “No” in this situation?
Small Change #6: Mindset Matters
One of the most important A-HA! moments I’ve had on this journey was the day I realized I had been going about the business of getting healthy all wrong. Until then, I had been focusing on all the things I “had to do” in order to make the necessary changes in my life.
Small Change #5: Admire & Copy
I came across a Warren Buffet quote the other day that resonated with me. It said,
“Much of what you become in life depends on whom you choose to admire and copy.”
About Emily
As a kid, I was pretty sure I’d have one of those lives where everything turned out exactly as I’d planned and I’d be confident in all my doings. Here I am mid-forty-ish, and I realize I’m not really even sure what I want to be when I grow up. But I’m working on it. These are my musings about what I consider the most important aspects to the fine art of figuring it all out.