Don’t forget the inbetweens
You take the time to prepare a meal plan and weigh your food. At any given time, you can confidently recite what you ate yesterday and boast about how you stayed on your healthy eating plan. But did you count the extra nibbles—licking the bowl clean of cookie batter, grabbing an extra handful of crackers from the box, or refilling your wine glass “just a splash”?
When it comes to losing fat, it is pretty easy to sabotage your efforts by losing track of the extra calories you’ve consumed. It can also be difficult to quantify how much you ate—was that one serving of chips or two? You don’t need to (and shouldn’t) be a slave to calorie counting, but being honest about what you’re eating and whether it will help or hinder your goals is one of the most important conversations you can have with yourself when it comes to losing fat.
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It’s okay when the frown can’t turn upside down
Many people view crying as embarrassing, but what your body is really doing is naturally reacting to a sad event in a healthy way, according to Everyday Health. Letting the tears roll down is a normal way to release stress, pain, and anger.
Crying is actually a “purging” or “purification” of your feelings through emotional release. The Everyday Health article likens it to a “safety valve” that lets out emotions that have built up too much. So instead of holding back tears, let them out. Do it behind a closed door if you need to.
Even the sunniest people among us feel sad once in a while—whether there has been a specific trigger like ending a relationship, or no real trigger other than a bout of melancholy. However, it’s important to distinguish sadness from depression. Sadness is temporary, while depression is a chronic feeling of hopelessness that requires medical attention as it can be debilitating.
