Choose Health

First, let me say this:   I joined a group on Facebook called Choose Health. (Thanks Mary Tyler Mom).   It's pretty neat. There's lots of sharing and support going on there, but the reason I mention it is because I like the name.  It's quite a brilliant idea if you think about it.  Using that idea as a guage to make decisions, allows us to start fresh at EVERY SINGLE decision-making opportunity.  No matter what choice we made yesterday, or earlier today, the question is fresh each time it comes up.  The best part to me, is that every single one of us can answer that question for ourselves.  It's not a specified way to live.  It's tailored to what each of us needs to feel successful, and it simply reminds us to think about what health is to each of us individually. 

It's also a committment.  It takes the pressure away from our dirty little minds playing tricks on us.  

Example (me talking to myself):  Oh man, that cupcake looks delicious! I can taste the chocolate frosting in my mouth already.  Do I want it?  HELL YEAH I want it!!!!!  Then comes guilt..... Do I really want it?  Well... no, but it looks so good.  Stop.... think about this brilliant question that I've committed to truly consider, and I ask myself to Choose Health..... Okay, I know I don't want it and I toss the entire plate into the garbage can immediately.  Shit, it's been sitting on my counter for a week now.

That little pause, that break in my mind to re-asses what exactly that cupcake means.  I'm not going say no every time.  Sometimes to choose health, (for sanity? for fun? to celebrate?) I will say yes.  And that is perfectly okay.  I love chocolate cake and I REFUSE to cut myself off completely.  But I will choose to have one and be done with it.  Not drag on that fight in my mind.  I hope that as I progress in my journey of choosing health that it will start to come naturally and more automatic. 

It's crazy how MENTAL our success is.   Especially for choosing health, whether it be the "eating" part or the "physical" part, the choices and the attitudes we have about it all is mental.