Today, I want to talk to you about how to stop craving unhealthy food. This is an interesting one.

 
We often crave all this stuff that’s not really good for us. So what do we need to do in order to stop wanting these unhealthy foods?
There are two things to consider.
1. Change your beliefs about your food
Changing the way you see food will make you want to eat different things. For example, I personally started to see meat as torture and murder. So, if you see meat as torture and murder, the desire to eat it will be far less. Or if you see a bag of chips and you see it as a factory-made-food, very processed, with chemicals going into it, all of a sudden you wouldn’t want it that much. When you’re thinking about what you’re eating, certain foods don’t look tempting anymore.
2. See healthy and unhealthy foods in different color schemes
Think about fruits and vegetables in vibrant colors. Envision them as alive, full of nutrients, yummy, delicious, feeding-your-soul type of foods. On the other hand, see unhealthy food as processed, and in muted, ugly, icky colors. Seeing foods in different color schemes, actually makes you more attracted to healthy food, rather than unhealthy food.

Today I have another parenting tip for you.

 
Put down your phone.
Put down your phone when you’re with your kids. Just because you’re in the room with them, doesn’t mean that you’re giving them your actual attention.
These days we spend more time with our kids than probably ever before, but they need quality time without distractions, as much as they need quantity. When we’re looking at our phones, our kids are feeling like whatever is going on on your phone is more important than they are, and we don’t want them to feel that way.
I keep my phone at “do not disturb” mode, I put in another room, I do whatever I can to not be distracted from my children. Because even if I’m checking the weather, how does that make them feel? Like that thing is more important than they are. And I never want my kids to feel that way, and I don’t want your kids to feel that way either. So when we’re with our kids, we put down the phone.

Today I want to talk to you a little bit about feeling not enough.

 
When we don’t feel good enough, pretty enough, happy enough, whatever enough, it’s important to think about this concept.
The idea of not feeling enough is part of the human condition. It’s not just you who feels that way. Everybody feels that way, and it’s also a really awesome thing when you think about it, because that’s evolution. If we felt good enough all the time, then there would be no reason to grow, there would be no reason to learn, and nothing would happen. All the ways, all the technologies, all the things that have happened, are basically based on the fact that people felt not enough. People always fixed what needed to be better.
So when you think about that, you realize that this “not enough” voice is really there to do you a service, so that you can grow. And you don’t have to see it as you’re actually not enough. You can realize that these thoughts, and all of our thoughts, are like dreams. We don’t actually have control over them. They just happen.
And so, we need to learn how to see that “not enough” thought as an opportunity to grow, and not as a thought that we need to believe because, evolutionary speaking, our mind naturally looks for things and problems to solve.
So solve them, and continue realizing that you are enough, because you’re human. Perfectly imperfect.

Don’t like your body very much? You’re not alone.

 
A lot of us really struggle with this issue. People hate their body, wish they had a different one, judge it, pinch their fat, and all of these things. In addition, a lot of people think that they’ll stop hating their body when, and if, it gets better. That’s not how it works.
Learning how to love our body isn’t by getting a better body, but by actually understanding that the body we have is our vessel.
Say to yourself:
“This body is not me. When I die, it will still be here, and I will not be. Right now I live inside of it, and in order for me to love it, it doesn’t matter what it looks like. I need to take care of it, because it is my home for the rest of this lifetime.”
So in order to stop hating our body, we need to love that it is the home for our soul.