Hello! ...again. In my past few videos I've talked a bit about, you know, going
"off track", going "on track", behavior change, and our sense of self-worth, and mindset
type stuff, and I found myself having to be mindful of my wording, especially when
it comes to the idea of "good" and "bad" habits, and "good" and "bad" meals. I've found
myself on occasion using words like "good" or "bad" when referring to behaviors.
I think I've done a pretty good job of correcting myself when I've done that,
and one of the reasons that I am working to be aware of that kind of language is
because another key to long-term success is removing all morality from our food
choices, and removing that same morality from pretty much anything
related to our own personal health and fitness. Now, that's not to say that there
may not be certain situations where... I don't know... you could make the argument
that there's a moral issue with not taking care of yourself. I could see that...
that argument being made [shared healthcare expenses, for example]. However, my... my... point here is more specifically about
saying, "Oh, I was 'bad' last weekend; I need to be 'good'", or... or... even... even going further
than statements like that, which are typically more playful...
beating yourself up over having a day, a night, or a week where you weren't...
where you know you... that you... [get your act together, Rob] where you know that you weren't taking care of yourself
or where you know that... you know, that you weren't doing the things that you know
you need to do to be as healthy and fit as you'd like. Now, I don't mean to say
that there's anything necessarily wrong with not being happy with yourself for
doing something that you know you deserve better. There's a difference
between saying, "Oh my god, I feel like trash. This is not good for me" from a
health perspective [and the examples mentioned earlier]. You know, I know I've felt like that. I've had times where I've
had a rough weekend, either at, like, a bachelor party, or I have a wedding or
something, or, hell I just have "a night", and I wake up the next day, and I feel
like trash, because of food choices or booze choices. It just doesn't feel too
good, and on those days I might feel a sense of, "Damn, Rob. This shit can't happen
again", but that's not necessarily thinking that specific foods or specific
things that I did morally made me a bad a person. That's
not necessarily a moral judgment on myself so much as it is recognizing that
my actions don't align with my goals. Do you see the difference? Do you see the
difference between attaching morality to a food choice or a lifestyle choice - the
difference between attaching morality to those things or just acknowledging that
those things aren't how you want to live your
life, for yourself. Does that make sense? So, for example, a common term or phrase
out there is a... a "cheat", a "cheat" meal, or... or a "cheat"... a "cheat" day, and the word,
"cheat", to some people, that... that whole idea of a "cheat" meal or whatever, that
might not carry too much weight. No pun intended.
That was probably a horrible choice of wording, but whatever, we're... we'll roll
with it. The idea of a "cheat" meal, to some people, is something to be, you know,
something that's, "Okay, yeah, like, I just really just ate something I wanted to",
but that's more in the context of, like, a, "I consciously made a decision to please
my tastebuds even though I knew that it didn't align with my goal", and so they
may call it a "cheat" meal, but they don't necessarily feel like they "cheated".
But not everybody's like that. Some of us, when we indulge in a food or a behavior
that we know doesn't move us towards our goals, we do it and then we... we don't feel
[simply] as though what we did doesn't align with our goals; rather we actually feel a
sense of shame, as if that decision reflects on us as a person. Like, "Oh my
god, I cheated on my diet", like, that's very different than saying, "Yeah, kind of
had a cheat day yesterday... tasted pretty good",
which still, arguably, for a lot of people, might not be a good strategy in the long
run. That's a very individual thing and we could talk about that and you could
argue either way. I've heard compelling arguments on both sides and I'm not
getting into that, but what I will get into you is that your food choices, at
least in terms of how you view yourself morally,
and in terms of how you view yourself as a person, your food choices shouldn't be
a part the equation. There is nothing moral about food. Eating one thing or
eating another thing doesn't make you any "better" or "worse" of a person than the
people around you eating differently. Now, along that same note - I'm glad I threw in
"better" in that last sentence. On that same... in the same vein, not only should you not
beat yourself up for making certain food decisions, don't think that you're better
than somebody else because of your food decision, regardless of whether what
somebody else is eating actually is "healthier" or not. You know, for example, we
get the whole "paleo" versus "vegan" thing and, just saying, both of those sides can
be assholes to the other side, for lack of a better term. Um. Both of those... both
of those sides of things, they can... they can have a lot of pride. It's almost like,
"Oh, I'm morally superior to you for how I eat." Don't be like that. What you eat has
nothing to do with how good of a person you are. Now
obviously, let's say if you're eating a certain way because of treating animals
fairly, or if you're eating a certain way for environmental sustainability, even
then there are different ways to argue both sides of the... both sides of things,
based on who you happen to believe in terms of research and science. For
instance, uh, there's a lot of argument out there against veganism for
environmental sustainability, particularly when it comes from mono-
crop farming. That's... that's... that's a valid argument to me. My point is here -
I'm not trying to get... I'm opening up too many cans [of worms]. My point here is that of all
the things to base how we view ourselves as people, and how
positively or negatively we're contributing to the world, specific food
choices are not probably number one on the list. You could argue that, in some
ways, certain ways of eating are better in terms of other people's lives than
others, but way more important than that is, do you say "please" and "thank you"? Do
you hug your family? Do you call your brother, your sister, your mom, and your
dad? Do you spend time with your friends? Do you work hard on the job? Those things
are so much more important, and they will take you further or... mmm... maybe not "take
you further"... They will... they will allow you to impact the world in a much better
way than whether you choose to eat meat or not, or whether you choose to not eat
certain things. Don't attach morality to food. OK? Cool. That's all I got. Damn, I
covered a few different ideas there so I might have to revisit some of this. I
apologize... but not really. Anyhow, I'm done. Have a great day!
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