The New Year
It's the new year, and you may have made a resolution to improve your diet, exercise more, or lose weight. And here you are. Now I want you to take a moment to re-think your resolutions.
First, think about how you feel right now. Are you happy, excited, alert, looking forward? Or are you feeling tired or even exhausted from all the holiday celebrations? Are you feeling sluggish or energized? Are you a little depressed from the let-down of the holiday season, or refreshed from a little vacation time? Really stop for a moment and check in with how you are feeling right now.
The goal of the Good Mood Diet is to help you improve how you feel. Whether you’re down in the dumps or on top of the world, when you follow the Good Mood Plan you can feel even better. When you feel better, you keep following the plan. And if you need to lose weight, you will. It’s all about how you feel, not about what you weigh.
So now that you know how you feel, I want you to write it down. When you finish reading this blog, go to the online support page and download the log file. And here’s your new New Year’s Resolution: Start to keep a log of how you feel each day, along with what you eat and your activity. You can even keep a log for different times in the day: when you wake up, the middle of the day, and in the evening before bed. Because this is your bottom line. I want you to start to associate what you do with how you feel. And the best way to do that, and to change old habits into new habits, is to keep a log. Have you made the resolution yet?
At the end of each week, look back at your log. Not to see what you did wrong, but to see what you did right. How do you feel when you eat “feel great foods” and when you eat “feel bad foods?” How does exercise make you feel? What about when you drink enough water throughout the day? Are you eating what you NEED to eat? This log, and the bottom line of how you feel, will be a very important motivator and barometer for your success.
Welcome to the Good Mood Diet. It’s going to be a great New Year!
Yours in a Good Mood,
Susan