Patience is particularly important when it comes to improving a diet or a way of eating. It’s because our eating habits are some of the hardest habits to change. But this is usually because the results we seek start off as imperceptible. If I eat better today than I did yesterday, my body knows it, …
Trainer Advice
Replace Win or Lose with Try and Learn
Professional athletes don’t just seek to win. They seek to learn from every experience. They do this because they know that there is no “finish line” when it comes to self-improvement. They constantly work to get better. You may not be a professional athlete, but you can further grow your capacity to learn. If you …
Measure What You Do, Not the Result
So what should we measure? When it comes to healthier living, I’m always a proponent of measuring actions, not outcomes. The keyword in improving your health is to be healthIER. That means improving what you do, the things you can control…not what happens because of what you do. This is particularly applicable in nutrition because …
Measure What’s Important, Not What’s Easy
Why do we feel compelled to measure weight? One reason is that it’s an established norm. Another reason we measure weight is because we want some metric for comparison. Yet another reason we use weight to judge success is because it’s easy. But just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s the right …
Your Perspective on Success
Why do we measure what we measure? It’s because we need, or want to compare. When it comes to nutrition, we compare what we ate to what we were supposed to eat on a particular diet… We compare what we are eating now to what the friends next to us are eating… We compare that …