A reason why it’s hard to eat well…..

A friend of mine sent me this article from the New York Times: Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind.

I think that this can also explain why eating well can be so frustrating. Have you just eaten that donut because you’ve read about all the other foods that are “bad for you” and, feeling overwhelmed, you decide that since we’re all going to go at one time or another you might as well enjoy that donut? I know that’s happened to me — at least it did before I found out I was gluten intolerant!

There is a lot of nutritional information out there, much of it conflicting, and it can be overwhelming. You shouldn’t need to cart around a guidebook the size of the dictionary in order to be healthy.

That’s why I think it’s much better to focus on doing positive things for yourself and to spend less time resisting things. Instead of wrestling over whether or not you should have those fries, why don’t you just spend the extra few bucks and order a salad or some other vegetable to go with them? According to the article,we have a limited amount of willpower, and so it might be better used to focus on doing something that you know will benefit you (like taking a twenty minute walk a day) instead of depriving yourself.