Don't start a diet!
Heeeyho Readers! Coming by with some rambles about our habits!
This is one of those occasional free-write rambles with a rather clickbaitery title {evil laughs}. In reality, the idea is to make us think about our eating habits and the absurd amount of junk people eat. Let's start with a bold statement: diet is terrible. Diet allude to a quasi masochism, to a sacrifice in exchange of something (generally weight loss/gain). I hate the word in its contemporary meaning.
For some reason, we associate the word to a special eating regimen most of us complicate and hate. Feels like a mission that people start and finish — generally just before summer for that sexy summer body and all. Another reason to hate the word is because marketers use it to sell miraculous solutions and products that do more harm than good. Top it with today's disgusting eating habits and we got the recipe for a total inversion of values.
The word diet derives from the Greek daita, which translates to way of life — the habits, patterns, or behavior of a person or group.
When eating ultra-processed fast foods is mainstream, eating healthy feels abnormal. Home-cooked meals — those coming directly from the ground or animals — become a sacrifice, or a means to achieve an end, instead of becoming the way of life. Do you see the inversion of values? It's way harder to change our habits when the patterns in our brain is wrong.
Change the pattern!
What am I trying to say? Essentially, the idea is to stop using the word diet (as a noun and a verb) meaning a restriction to our current lifestyle. That demands a lot of mental energy. For example: It's harder to fight the urge to access social-medias than deleting the social-medias and not having them at all. The same way, it's harder to stay "on a diet" than relegating junk food and going back to normal. It's all in the brain!
The change for a better life starts with the semantics; that is, how we conceptualize words. Starting now, going on a diet means going back to normal, and normal means eating whole foods. Period. Once our brain is re-programmed, we stop demanding mental power to avoid nasty burgers with sugary sodas, which constitutes the real sacrifice.
Is it confusing?
The idea on this post feels like a circular logic, but if given enough thought you'll realize the inversion of values. In other words — before I lose myself —, eating junk is not ruining our diet because we are not doing something special by eating whole foods.
The sacrifice is not giving up junk food; the sacrifice is giving up real food.
So, if you are trying to change habits and continuously failing, try changing the program in your brain. The results will come with time.
I hope this post didn't turn out confusing. Next time I won't lick colorful frogs before writing sketches on Hive xDD
A lot of health for ye all
Peace.
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