Acknowledgement. It’s everything.

Acknowledgment. It’s one of the very first steps in a series of realizations that lead to choosing the foods that will work to make you healthier and find that life long diet. Funny enough, acknowledgment is one of the most overlooked components of almost every “diet” plan. If someone simply does not recognize that their favorite fast food meal is contributing greatly to not only the decline of their diet but also the increase of their waistline then there is definitely a disconnect in there somewhere. This could lead to a whole slew of problems…

Just because a diet plan lays out the foods for you to eat, doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be eaten or that something will not eaten in its place. Additionally, the foods can be prepared in a myriad of ways. Take the famous and most delicious cheeseburger for example. I do not know of one cheeseburger that is made with the same ingredients or same method of preparation unless it is continually purchased at the same chain fast food restaurant throughout America. A cheeseburger made at home would not only taste very different but it would also be made with a variety of other ingredients. A fact that should empower the home cook to keep on cooking and change up their burger recipe so they can never be bored of a burger again! Plus, they control what actually goes into that “beef” patty – perhaps some real beef?

It’s simply a fact that when someone buys fast food for lunch or dinner, they know they are not eating the healthiest meal ever invented. It’s at this point that acknowledging eating this food is being eaten in the first place that defining your diet will start. Either someone will choose to take back their food and their diet or they will surrender it to the non-acknowledging abyss. Pretending that it was just not eaten, or saying “today was a special day and it was one day so it can’t hurt” will just not do. One day turns into multiple days scattered here and there throughout a year and add up to a “big” difference. It just so happens that it’s most likely you that is the “big” part of that difference equation.

Acknowledgment. It’s everything.