Baby Steps

February 2018

I wanted to take control of my health. I wanted to up-level my life and they way I fed and moved my body My brain had some definite ideas about what was and what wasn't possible based on past experience. 

I wanted to permanently break my addiction to processed foods and sugar. 

My brain said, "No way"

I wanted to be able to run a 5K. 

My brain said, "It's possible, it had been done before"

I wanted to not be hungry all the time.

My brain said, "Is it even possible to not be hungry all the time?"  

I heard about intermittent fasting.

My brain said, "Definitely not healthy."

I wanted to lose weight.

My brain said, "It's possible." (I had done it several times before)

I wanted to maintain a healthy weight. 

My brain told me, "Other people do it but I never have." (Previously, at the end of a diet, I would wonder how long until the weight came back.) 

I wanted to learn to eat when I was hungry.  

My brain said, "What does that even mean?"

I decided to start with what seemed the most impossible goal; breaking my sugar addiction. I changed my thought  from , "No way!" to "What if it's possible I could go without processed foods and sugar for one day?"

After one day, I decided to do two. I let the confidence of small success propel me forward until I gone several months without sugar. 

My thought changed to, "What if it's possible for me to only eat sugar and processed foods occasionally in small controlled as part of a food plan for the rest of my life?"

Baby Steps helped me move the impossible to a possibility.