When we have a meal plan in place, we do 3 of the following.
1- We eat as planned
2- We don't eat as planned but eat something healthier
3 - We don't eat as planned and eat something unhealthy
You get to decide what is healthy and what is not. I of course believe that anything which is flour, sugar or fried is unhealthy. And I have taken my sweet time to figure out a way to eat that.
You will get integrity points if you eat as planned
You will get health points if you don't eat as planned but ate something healthier,
And you will get compassion points if you eat something unhealthier and unplanned.
Every day when you assess how you ate the day before, you will be rewarding yourself with integrity , health and compassion points.
In the beginning, you will land up collecting a lot of compassion points because you are not used to eating as planned.
Integrity and health points are self-explanatory.
Unfortunately, we don’t know what self-compassion is.
It is an absolutely alien concept to us. No one taught us that and we don't use it in our everyday life.
Consider it as a skill you are learning. Like driving a car or riding a bike or learning to dance or preparing for an exam. All these things are NEW to you. But you learned it anyway because you wanted to enjoy driving, riding, dancing, or being qualified.
Being compassionate every time you do something you didn't want to do means, forgiving yourself for doing it first and then wondering why you did it?
When you allow yourself compassion then you can access those emotions which you were trying to avoid. Your brain has tried to feel better in those moments by eating those unhealthy foods. All these processed foods produce a very high dopamine response, as high as alcohol or any drug.
So every time you eat something unplanned, I want you to reward yourself with a compassion point and ask yourself why did you do that? Maybe you won't have the answer in the beginning but one day your brain might tell you. That is where you will become aware of the emotion that made you eat.
Doing this daily every morning will create a new neuronal pathway or a new habit.
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