Do You Have a Food Strategy?

Remember all those resolutions you made at the start of the New Year?  How are you doing?  Are any of them still in play?  If you are in the middle of the pack, I have a feeling most or all are gone and these resolutions won't resurface until about ten months from now.  Also, it's probable that those resolutions involved getting your budget in line and/or trimming some pounds from your belly.  Maybe a resolution isn't the best way to achieve your objectives.  I'm focusing on the area of food management today because that happens to be what I'm working on.  I'm discovering that food strategies as opposed to annual New Year resolutions seem to have a better chance of having a successful outcome.

A food strategy is your guide that you implement in order to achieve your goals.  Keep in mind you have very strong opposing forces trying to stop you.  There may be some people with ulterior motives who want you to consume their products even when they are detrimental to your health.  When these people become influencers by being elected to positions of power and they say something that may not be truthful, beware. 

Another opposing force is your brain.  Sadly, this brain of yours sends signals to the stomach that may be contrary to what you need to trim belly fat.  Listen to these messages from your brain and you're doomed to failure.  That's why a food strategy can counter negative influences.  Teach your brain to follow your strategy and demand complete obedience.  

My own food strategy is a baby step approach.  The first step is to tell your brain you are in charge of the food strategy.  The second step is to lay out your action plan as detailed as you can.  Consider your food strategy as something that will become a way of life rather than a resolution.  The next step is to decide which baby step you want to act on first, like giving up soft drinks.  Stay on this step until the food addiction is mastered.  Now, keep going.  Is the next step chocolate and all things sugary?  Stay here until mastered.  Keep going.  The advanced steps are ideas like intermittent fasting or even OMAD (one meal a day).  This doesn't have to be every day but it can be what you want it to be.  That's it.  Remember, this isn't a fad or a diet, it's a strategy.  Follow this for a year and let's see what happens.  Have a great day.