Change in life does not come without change in choice. Big changes in life may cause a lot of stress and we tend to avoid that making compromises. This is not inherently wrong, stress is never good for you, but neither is avoiding change.
Losing weight and improving your overall well-being is a perfect example of compromises with change. You have a very clear goal, but either make too many/wrong compromises or commit entirely and burn-out from stress.
Here are some simple incremental compromises to increase your life quality and get healthier:
1. Avoid stress, everything malfunctions while we are stressed out.
2. Start intermittent fasting. Ease out to it, start with coffee with a teaspoon of butter/coconut/mct oil in the morning to stay satiated and skip lunch. That alone would be huge for your body and mental clarity.
3. Eat less processed foods. Choose high quality ingredients and make real food at home or eat out at places that do.
4. Exercise. Even 30mins a day, three times a week makes a huge difference, especially when done while fasting.
5. Break free of sugar/fructose addiction. This one is huge both in effort required and health/mental benefits once you do skip sweet foods.
Nerija SkvernelytėHead Of Marketing @Qoorio
great tips! Could you recommend some great places to eat in Vilnius, that prepare great quality food at reasonable pricing?
about 1 year ago·
Aurimas ŠeputisSoftware Engineer @Qoorio
can't really say. Preparing my own food most of the time with rare occasions of eating out for some steak/salad/fish.
12 months ago·
Melina MelinaClimbing, Swimming, Mental Clarity
That picture describes it so good! With every Choice there comes an opportunity for a Chance to change your path into a better direction!
9 months ago·
Monika Kuzminskaitė on Food & Eating PsychologyHealth psychologist, with special love for food and eating mattersSome time ago
Article. Should you skip the breakfast if you are working on losing weight?
Everyone keeps saying that, "eat the breakfast yourself" and so on. It is probably the longest surviving eating recommendation across last few decades. But a recent meta-research states that this is not correct - people who do not eat breakfast are losing the weight successfully. Actually, not that - losing weight is not related to the fact of eating breakfast. So if you are choosing to eat breakfast - because you want to, not because someone tells you to - make sure it is healthy and nutritious (like porridge, eggs or plain yoghurt), and not the confectionary array of pancakes, waffles or donuts.
I had some soup for breakfast today.
Article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/its-not-just-baby-fat/202007/should-people-trying-lose-weight-skip-breakfast
Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32304359/
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Monika Kuzminskaitė on PsychologyHealth psychologist, with special love for food and eating mattersSome time ago
A book I would like to recommend - ""Atomic habits". I've said it multiple times and will not stop repeating it - habits are the easy way into whatever healthier life you might imagine. The habits that have lead you into whatever health problems you have can be replaced by healthier habits, and this book teaches you one of the ways to do it. Habits are easy, habits are effortless - nothing that is habit is difficult, be it exercise, eating, paying attention, not paying attention, choosing - whatever. Once you stop feeding the wrong habits, and start feeding and growing the new ones, you'll be on your way to a better you.
Good reading.
Andrew Lim Mao TungWindows System Admin with a passion to motivate and likes Technology.
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My self love story…⠀
It was blurry and it was painful. That’s what I remember from my past. I used to feel sad, anxious and worthless. 😓 ⠀
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I never felt worthy and I surely didn’t see my value. On top of that I did a lot of self-destructive things that I am not proud of. But, they’re part of my story and I learned to accept them. ⠀
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I can tell you, I felt trapped. But, despite feeling so devastated, I knew that there HAS to be more to life than feeling like this. “Is this all there is to life? It can’t be”, that’s what I kept telling myself. 🔗 ⠀
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So, I had to make a choice: Do I want to keep feeling this way? Or do I want to make a change? I immediately knew the answer. 💡 ⠀
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The only option was to start feeling better and the only person who could help me was ME. Nobody else. 💪 ⠀
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That’s where my drastic change began. I took measures into my own hands and changed everything. Step by step. I stopped doing harmful things, cut off the wrong people and tried to fight through all the pain and all the sad. It was an uphill battle, but oh so worth it. ⛰️ ⠀
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Now, several years later, with many setbacks and challenges that I had to deal with, I can truly say I love, respect and accept myself the way I am. ⠀
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My self-talk has become a lot more positive and encouraging. 💖 ⠀
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Fear can’t hold me back anymore and every challenge is welcome because I know the difficult things in life help me grow. Even if they’re painful, I KNOW I can do it. ⠀
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Throughout my journey I’ve learned a lot of techniques to deal with negative emotions, setbacks, lack of self-love, confidence and self-worth. 🤗✨ ⠀
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Now I want to help YOU with my experience. It all works because I’ve used and still use some of these techniques to this day. Everything is proved and tested by me and by past clients. ⠀
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