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If you\u2019ve ever found yourself ditching your healthy eating or exercise plan when it bumps up against a challenge that prevents you from doing it as intended \u2013 you\u2019ve likely fell prey to \u201call-or-nothing\u201d thinking.<\/p>\n
Targeting the ideal means that we aim for a bull\u2019s-eye and don\u2019t consider any alternatives when conflicts arise. Then, when our ideal plan doesn\u2019t work, we top it off with self-blame and even shame. We\u2019ve essentially limited our choices to two: winning or losing, succeeding or failing. This cycle keeps us stuck starting and stopping but never sustaining.<\/p>\n
But this thinking seems \u201cright\u201d to you \u2013 and if it does \u2013 it\u2019s not your fault. We\u2019ve learned to have these types of perfectionistic beliefs about exercise and eating and the ideals they aim to achieve over decades. Even though it\u2019s not really true, and can only work for a few, this has been and continues to be the conventional thinking of our time.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s good news though! While most of us can\u2019t succeed at \u201cperfect,\u201d we can<\/em> succeed at something completely different that I call the Joy Choice<\/em>. The Joy Choice strategy is designed to strengthen and support our brain\u2019s innate self-management system for better eating and being, and staying, more physically active. Learn how to cut through the mental noise, daily chaos, and make the Joy Choice – the perfect imperfect<\/em> option\u2014that has the meaning and fortitude to keep us on the path of lasting change.<\/p>\n Michelle Segar is an award-winning University of Michigan researcher and lifestyle coach. She is member of the IHRSA\u2019s Medical, Science, and Health Advisory Council and was the inaugural Chair of the National Physical Activity Plan\u2019s Communication Committee. She has spent almost 30 years helping individuals and organizations learn how to create sustainable healthy lifestyles. She wrote her new book, <\/em>The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise<\/a>, to help individuals and the professionals who work with them create lasting changes through purpose, positivity, and joy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you\u2019ve ever found yourself ditching your healthy eating or exercise plan when it bumps up against a challenge that prevents you from doing it as intended \u2013 you\u2019ve likely fell prey to \u201call-or-nothing\u201d thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":32124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,270],"class_list":["post-32122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-healthy-aging","tag-mental-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32126,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32122\/revisions\/32126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Learn more at Michelle’s webinar, Disrupting All or Nothing Thinking<\/a><\/strong>
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