Good food, Good friends, Good times

‘Good Food’

What does Good Food mean to you? What does good food look like? Is it foods we tend to think of as forbidden, like chocolate, take away’s, ready meals? If that’s your idea of good food how did you feel when you ate like that? How do you feel when you have eaten a surplus of all of that type of food? Healthy? Happy? How does your skin, hair, nails, tummy, bowels and weight feel? What about your head, is that in a good place? And for most of us the answer is no! When we eat rubbish we feel like rubbish and our weight is rubbish!

Sadly, many people blow up out of proportion what needs to happen to get “good food”

They think it’s so hard and difficult to eat “good food” they expect it to be expensive, always at the shop (buying it fresh), no convenience foods, no meals out, spending all your time in the kitchen when in fact it needn’t be like that

When you compare the cost of crap foods with healthy foods – crap foods are more expensive; don’t fill you up – so you eat more, so you have to shop more to replace them which means it costs more, which means it messes with your finances and your head.

Let’s just look at this

A sandwich made with 2 slices of thick bread, butter or spread on both, a slice of ham between . A packet of crisps and a low calorie skinny bar to finish. It’s not a huge amount of food, also it’s not especially filling or satisfying either and could lead to afternoon snacking. It could have been 1 slice of bread with a slice of ham, tomato, lettuce, cucumber, beetroot and onion piled on top, finished with cheese shavings and eaten with a knife and fork. Followed by 0% fat free plain yogurt mixed with black cherries and topped with dark chocolate shavings. More food, more satisfying and less calories!!

A pizza take-away!! That’s a bad day/week then! Takeaway v Fakeaway v Healthy Fakeaway!!

The problem isn’t that there are bad foods or bad eating but the problem is that having had something like that it then takes so much more to make up the rest of the day to make it fit and some of you don’t even try. Because you think I’m never going to be able to make up that loss and that’s when it messes with your head because in your head you feel you have blown it! So when it comes down to good food this is the only one that will give you the fill factor, the pleasure factor, and the satisfaction of knowing that you will lose weight as well – it ticks all  the boxes

‘Good Friends’

What makes a good friend? Someone who will listen, understand, be sympathetic, offers suggestions to put it right, in fact tell you that it isn’t the end of the world and in the long run it can be put right. Wonder where you’ll find one of them?

‘Good Times’

Hard one to call but isn’t it feeling as chuffed at the end of it as you hoped you would be, you might have enjoyed it but it’s also important to enjoy and feel proud of your results

We all know that in order to lose weight we have to  change what we eat, we could change it to a tuna salad and a pot of yoghurt and you will get the results but will you have enjoyed getting those results?

This is the whole concept of how we at Success Lies In Mind have a different approach, of course if you had dieted to lose weight and had that cottage cheese and tuna week in week out you would still get the results but it would be a diet! We prefer a whole lifestyle, habit and behaviour approach. Let’s be totally honest, surely good times are when you have lost weight, have totally enjoyed doing it, relished the journey and can see clearly the health benefits too.

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us!

ken levine