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What happened when I went on a brain diet
Do you ever consider the impact of your mental consumption habits?
Bikini, detox, beach body ready, wedding, 5–2, fasting, whole 30, Atkins, vegan, plant-based, is the start of an endless list of diets and health routines that many of us have tried and dabbled with.
Apparently, two-thirds of us Brits are on a diet most of the time.
It’s probably become quite an unhealthy obsession; sometimes fueled by the media and our social media feeds that portray the perfect body and the conscious or even subconscious comparison that we then make to ourselves. Regardless of the catalyst or the motivation behind wanting to lose weight we all understand that the key to success in achieving our fitness and health goals is discipline, consistency, and not falling off the wagon!
Ultimately, the benefit of the diet and its principles are the boundaries and rules we have to follow and implement. Whilst many of the activities are related to physical actions, the key to success is establishing the right mindset and having the mental determination to succeed. The mind will give up long before everything else!
So let’s focus on the mind now. Whilst we all understand that if we eat a lot of unhealthy food and are lacking in physical activity, over time we gain weight and risk health problems…
