Yup. You too, friend.
To encourage you, I’m going to share another way I’m amazing!1
I have been (more or less) within the healthy weight range (basically – okay!) for my entire life, which has been no small feat.
However, when following my advice failed me for a while, and the pounds piled themselves on in a hurry (it happens!), I decided to switch it up and buy a nutrition app. I am constantly trying new approaches and programs and learning more about implementing healthy habits, which is the point of this article. But I’m not talking about that right now.
I’m talking about the notification that startled me.
Join people in over fifty countries who read this to gain valuable life wisdom! (Or maybe they’re just laughing at me? . . . Whatever!)
I was initially an undisputed failure at using this nutrition app.
Check this out. The photo below is an actual graph of my “progress” over several months, showing NO improvement in achieving my ideal weight. None.
There are normal fluctuations, but the graph of this line is flat.
Same, same, samers.
Despite hours (and hours!) of logging EVERY food item into the app, I STILL didn’t lose ANY weight!2
However, I continued with the program.
BY March, I was in the top 3% of users of this nutrition app I was using. The TOP 3%. And do you know WHY I was in the TOP (Let me repeat it) of users of this app?
Simply because I hadn’t given up yet.
And it wasn’t even that I DID anything extraordinary, which is the MOST amazing part!3 I eventually lost some weight using this app4, and I feel a lot better. And the program would have also benefited many other app users.
If only they kept trying.
And so, how do we increase in our journeys toward healthier habits?
1.Don’t be surprised that you’re a loser!
For example, I immediately unsubscribed to the “encouragement” texts accompanying the health app because so many people complained in a way I could not comprehend.
“I only lost five pounds this month!” they would complain.
Five pounds! That sounded amazing! I was excited to celebrate with them, but they were already discouraged. I hadn’t lost any weight in several months, and I was proud of myself for continuing the laborious task (for my thumbs) of logging food items into my iPhone!
Which brings me naturally to Point #2:
2.Have low expectations for yourself!
Then you don’t need to get discouraged! Oh! And remember how God ALREADY loves you?
That takes the pressure off, friend!
Why we even WANT to try to get healthier is another article, but we don’t have to please others or even ourselves because God, your community and maybe even your mom ALREADY love you!
3.Get up quickly after you fall, friend.
Keep going.
I’m with you. . .
I’ll give you strength. I’ll help you.
Oh!
And these three ways to grow in our healthy habits journeys are EXACTLY the same three ways that we grow in our spiritual journeys! But more on that next time. (Or soon!)5
(But don’t give up just before your breakthrough, friend.)
Thanks for liking me! I like you too! – Proven HERE, HERE, and HERE! Let’s journey together!
Photo Credit – Can We Keep Getting On It Despite The Number It Tells Us? by i yunmai on Unsplash
1 As described HERE, online writers need to build their credibility and establish themselves as important and amazing, so that others will blindly follow their advice!
2 Yes, I was WAY OVER my “Recommended Eating Goals” in various categories, but it took me a while to find that part of the app!
3 You can do nothing but show up and end up being amazing, as proven definitively HERE!
4 Eventually, okay? (Like being more consistent with going to the gym.)
5 It snowed today! Ski season is upon us, here in Canada, friends! The holiday break needs to be extended again!)
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