I saw this great short article & wanted to share it with you BUT I also want to talk a bit before that because the title & picture had me thinking about how this relates to health & fitness.

We all read a lot of blogs & hear the stories of the many ways people have tried to lose weight. All the diets, programs, crazy diets, devices, low fat, low carb, high protein, raw food, vegetarian and more. Is there any right way???

No, we do NOT want to fall for the crazy ones out there, that is a fact, BUT who is to say that people can't lose weight on many of the very different healthy programs out there.. or even a program you set up for yourself.

Me, I have done a lot of things wrong in my early years (see the AFG Guest Post) but now I rely on eating whole foods, minimally processed foods, can't remember the last time I had a frozen dinner, few packaged foods & if they are in my house, the ingredient list is short & I can pronounce all the ingredients! I probably eat about a 40-30-30 type program... meaning my % of calories from my food are about 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein and 30% fat. Now this varies & sometimes I may have more or less carbs or protein and I don't always eat as high as 30% fat. This is just a guess based on what I know I eat day to day. This works for me, but it may not work for others. I think there are many out there that eat like this but I also know those that eat a higher protein diet & that works for them. Some eat a very high carbohydrate rich diet of healthy foods & they do better that way.

I think we all have heard of the Mediterranean diet (which is NOT a diet but a lifestyle way of eating for long term) that seems to prove out as a healthy diet for a lot of people... similar to the 40-30-30 type breakdown, BUT there are exceptions to every rule. There is no "my way or the highway"  OR as the pic above says, MY WAY OR NO WAY, with healthy eating & exercising. Well, unless you have medical issues & your doctors tell you to eat a certain way to stay alive!!!

It is all about a lifestyle change and finding a well rounded food & exercise program that you can live with long term. As I have said in the past, my food & exercise has changed over the years BUT it is always because I knew I needed the change & again, I put together a plan that I could live & be happy with day to day. My plan now may change a bit here & there again but it is all about working to find the right thing for me.

Check out the article below. It has a lot to say about life in general.. not necessarily health/fitness. I really liked it! Here is the last paragraph (seen above also) which may entice you to read the entire short article: "It’s tragic that people sacrifice the real goal of life, which is increasing joy and happiness, for the cold comfort of judging others and feeing superior to them. If you see the world with judgment instead of love, that’s the world you will inhabit."

Imposing Your Viewpoint

Most people are trapped trying to impose their viewpoint on the world. They carry around beliefs about what is right and wrong, and they hold on to these beliefs for years.

“I am right” brings comfort, but not true happiness. The people you feel wronged by will never apologize and make your wounds and grievances go away. The people you judge against will remain isolated from you. No one has ever been made happy by proving that they are right. The only result is conflict and confrontation, because the need to be right always makes someone else wrong.

There is no such thing as one and only one correct perspective. Right is whatever conforms to your perception. You see the world as you are. Others see the world as they are, too. This insight is tremendously liberating because, first of all, it makes you unique. Ultimately it makes you a cocreator with God. For as your consciousness expands, so does reality. Tremendous hidden potential is revealed.

The opposite happens if you insist upon being right. Because others will disagree, your need to be right will generate antagonism and rejection. As we are all too sadly aware, if the need to be right is rigid and fierce enough, wars ensue, often in the name of God.

If the world is a mirror of who you are, it is always reflecting a point of view. Objectivity is an illusion of the ego, created to bolster its insistence that what it sees is right.

It’s tragic that people sacrifice the real goal of life, which is increasing joy and happiness, for the cold comfort of judging others and feeing superior to them. If you see the world with judgment instead of love, that’s the world you will inhabit.

What does this article & sign say for you?