Changing your mindset

I was listening to the "Beyond Diet" podcast by Keith Klein the other night, and I found myself thinking how simple it actually is to change your mindset. We over-complicate things, but if we wised up to what we are doing, we'd all be able to transform our lives. 

Keith started by saying that you have to own your actions, i.e. understand that what you have done up until now has brought about your current situation. This is what my coach, Maia Berens, says too, by the way, Wise Fairy Godmother that she is!  Ok, so once you've accepted that, you can start making progress (we are talking about diet here, but it applies to all areas of your life).  

In this particular edition of the podcast, Keith doesn't say you have to give up eating all the things you like, but that small changes, over time really add up to yield huge results.  All you have to do is start by listing 2 or 3 things you'd like to change and start by focusing on one thing one week, then bit by bit you can move on to the others.  

For example, if you drink regular cola you are ingesting 40g of sugar with every can. Do you know how  many spoonfuls of sugar that is?  How can you change if you don't know what it is you are doing?   He explains that to convert grammes of sugar to teaspoons, you divide the number by 4, so that makes 10 teaspoons in one can. Say you drink two cans a day, that's over 1lb of pure sugar in one week. If you  just moved to diet cola, or cut out your cola altogether, that would add up to cutting about 62lbs of sugar from your diet over the year. Can you see how that would add up?!  And that's not saying you can't eat croissants or take-aways any more. If you just did that one tiny thing, and stuck to it (that's the kicker!), then you'd already be taking steps to be more healthy.

I can really feel a shift happening in my mindset, thanks to knowledge like this. I know that I can make small changes and stick to them if I take them one at a time.  When you next have a free half hour or so, go and listen to the podcast and you'll see what I mean.

Comments

[Jml]

Blimey!! You mean ALL that has happened to ALL of us is OUR fault. Yikes poor BF,NC etc

[Jen]

Well, in a nutshell, yes, that's what I believe. For example, although my overactive thyroid was originally caused by a shock (=finding out my husband had had an affair), the fact that I'm still overweight is entirely down to me. I could have lost it by now if I'd made up my mind to. I also think that by continuing to work in an unhealthy, stressful environment, in some way I brought about my own subarachnoid haemorrhage - I hated what I was doing but I stayed there and got angry and my blood pressure rose... and the rest is history.

If you own it, you can change it. If you decide that what happens to you is entirely the fault of someone/something else, then you can't take ownership of whatever it is and do something about it. That's how I see it, but I won't ever say "I'm right, you're wrong"; I respect that other people might see things differently. Il faut de tout pour faire un monde, non ? ! Love you xxx

[Jml]

Some I can accept but for others no. You can't stand up to the albanian mafia & stay alive!!!!!!!! The result of that event has had a lasting effect!!

[Jen]

I totally agree. Things DO happen to us that are outside of our control. We are only in charge of how we respond to what happens to us, is what I'm saying. (and you'll have to remind me of that story sometime cos I only know the bare outline!!!). I'm glad he survived by the way!

[(Another) Joan]

Albanian mafia? Huh?

[Jen]

You'll have to ask jml..... :)