This is one of the few life motto's I have come across and adopted as a life mantra. A valuable lesson that needs to be on repeat.
Change your expectations
I have been recently participating in a diet called Whole30. The premise of this diet is to remove all sugar, dairy, all grains, legumes and alcohol for 30 days to do a systemic reset of your body and then to do a slow re-introduction of the eliminated food to see if there is anything that is making you feel unwell. I have the great privilege to do this with a group of people from my church otherwise I think my husband and I would have already given up.
Some of the participants were choosing to measure the changes through body weight percentages. Being a women, a nurse, a friend and person who struggles with self image - I think body weight can be a challenging way to measure ones success. So I thought today that I would look at other victories that could be celebrated for this week. Some of them include...
Completing week 1 - this is freaking hard, breaking habits and maintaining self control. So YES! 7 days in the books
Learning new recipes - I have learned a lot about how to make things from scratch and that were genuinely money savers and tasted delicious like burgers and guacamole.
Feeling confident - I am really proud of the self control that I have had over the past 7 days and I want to keep it up.
Body composition changes - My favourites part about me are my eye lashes and lower legs... but now I am starting see my quadriceps again in my upper legs and that makes me smile.
(ps. I would encourage you to do this as well - find something that you love about yourself no matter how small - I find its helps with my personal confidence)
No afternoon low - I feel like I have a continuous energy through the day - no afternoon low that begs for a nap and that also feels really good.
So what does this have to do with expectations? I didn't measure myself weight wise and I am not planning to but some of the group members did and disappointment and frustration came also. I was reminded that it is important to change our expectations and look for other victories.
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