The comparing game

So this week is all about comparing yourself to those around you. You know what I'm talking about you look at your sister, your best friend, your neighbor and you size yourself up based upon what you see in them. Today I want to specifically talk about how negatively this can affect your nutrition.
If you are doing great and reading labels and eating tons of fresh raw produce you may start to get a little proud and look around at all the crap everyone else is eating and say wow look at me and what a great job I'm doing feeding my family. While I know you need a pat on the back and some good old fashioned encouragement sometimes this can lead to laziness. Yes you heard me right laziness. You start to think I'm doing so great it's OK if I slide this once. It's OK if we eat one or two candy bars and while this is true and it's OK to splurge it can lead to more and more splurges and they eventually become normal. Not to mention how will you ever help anyone else that is not as far on this journey as you if you are mean and prideful about it.

Now the other extreme in comparing is saying how you could never do that good. You can't afford organic and the produce in your area is expensive, you can't cook well and you just don't know what to do. So you don't do anything. This is not at all the right way to go about things. Everyone has to start somewhere and your time could be now. Make some small goals and stick to them. Do not look at what everyone else is doing look at your improvement.

If you are just really competitive and need a good challenge then I want you to set goals no matter how well you are doing and track your progress. Compare how well you are doing compared to how you were doing last week or month instead of how much better or worse you are doing than those around you.

Remember you can do this! You and your family are worth it!!!