I learned this over 20 years ago. Pretty good, huh? Doesn't this fly in the face of what we have learned? What well-meaning folks have done with articles, TV shows, books, interviews, and live events have turned us all into food freaks. (My son informs me that "Freak" now means "a nerd who is socially accepted.") In other words, we know a lot of information about food and how to stay healthy with food, but there is a disconnect in terms of practicing it. Why? Because these experts forget that the information they are giving is probably right, but we will hear it and think we have to do all of it to attain good health, and we have to do it all right now.
One of my favorite magazines is Prevention, but let me tell you--sometimes I come away from reading the articles feeling like a huge loser. (My daughter informs me that "Loser" isn't the ultimate state of social unacceptability, just someone who doesn't cut the grade and will be forgiven once they prove themselves.) I'm serious. I read this magazine which provides so much good information in 150-ish pages and walk away and think that I must really suck. (All my children inform me that this kind of word isn't permitted in our house.)
But, it's worth doing. And it's worth doing poorly if we can't do it well. Anything worth doing, is well...worth doing. We've got to get out of this, "I'm going to incorporate this into my life from now on" mentality. Maybe I won't do the strength exercises shown in Prevention every day for the next year. But, maybe I'll get up and try them after I close the cover. If I don't do them tomorrow or the next day, I'm okay. At least I did them.