A Reflection of How You Are Now

What would life be like without mirrors to reflect how we look for the moment?  Spinach in your teeth?  Get it out before you go back to the party.  Wake up with bed head, get in the shower and wash that mop as you start your day.  What about the all dressed up and ready to go out reflection?  Yes, you DO look good.  That's information worth having.

Without a reflection of how we look at any given moment, or what we present to ourselves and the greater world, we might not know valuable information that just might serve you.  Consider driving your vehicle with no rear view mirror.  You have no clue what is behind you, so you act on blind faith that you won't run into something when you back up.  Not safe and not cool.  No, I do want to see what's in that mirror too.

Now let's consider your food tracking.  That too is a reflection of where you are.  It is not a judge or a jury.  It will not talk back to you if you have hot fudge sauce on it.  Your tracker, whether online, on paper or in a fancy journal is merely a reflection of a moment in time, a meal or a snack, that can give you valuable information. 

If you pretrack, you can just follow your plan for dinner when the time comes.  You don't worry about what you'll make; you don't think; you just make what you planned.  That's instructive, helpful and stress reducing.  If you track after the fact, you may sometimes discover, albeit the hard way, that those hamburgers at Five Guys are a ton of points, and those fries are just too much.  This too is valuable information, because the next time a Five Guys opportunity comes up, you might be freer to say "no thank you" and really mean it.

There is no judge or jury in your reflection.  There is just a reflection of a moment in time.  If you observe that you like what you see, keep doing what you are doing.  On the other hand, if you observe you do not like what you are tracking, it's time to make a change.  No self criticism and no going backwards.  In the same way you can't uneat your spinach lasagna and not get spinach caught between your teeth, you can't fix the past.  You can only move on from now.  Now is where the power is. 

A healthy lifestyle is practicing good eating, good sleeping, good water drinking, good exercising, good meditating, good hobby making and good tracking MOSTLY RIGHT MOST OF THE TIME.
That looks good on everyone.