There are few feelings worse than the betrayal, pain, anger, loss, rejection, insecurity you feel when you find out that someone you’ve given your whole life to has been throwing everything away. 

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Even if what you’re going through sucks, what do you solve by complaining? You help the situation a lot more, and get through it a lot faster, by thinking that it’s not that bad and focusing your energy on getting it done rather than whining.

Negativity is toxic and helps no one and nothing!

Positivity is some kind of magic that makes everything better!

The “keys” to a happy life!

1. Be sure to have the right key and the right door: 

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Release whatever grudges, worries, relationships, habits, situations, or other negativity is holding you back. Let go and allow yourself to experience and enjoy life :) You can blame those things for your unhappiness or you can refuse to let them bring you down.

You know what you should be eating for good mental and physical health, but it can be hard to do with all the better-tasting things tempting you. Here are some tips to make eating healthy easier.

1. Food journal: Keep track of what you eat by writing everything you eat down as you eat it, with the pros (vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, etc) and cons (calories, fats, sugar, etc) of each. Writing it down will help you assess what changes you need to make in your diet and for the rest of the day. Because most people underestimate how much they eat, writing it down will make you aware of what you’re actually eating and make you eat fewer bad things when you know how many you’ve already eaten.
2. Portion control: Learn correct portion sizes and abide by them. Easy rules of thumb are that a serving of pasta is about the size of a fist and a serving of meat is the size of a deck of cards. Correct portions are much smaller than what we usually serve, so use a smaller plate to make it look like more food (yes this really works!). You will want to finish what’s on your plate, so put only as much as you should eat for that meal in front of you.
3. Gradual, lasting changes: Make small changes to your diet so that those changes last. Drastic changes will make you feel like you’re depriving yourself and you will inevitably bounce back twice as unhealthily to overcompensate. Then, once a couple small changes you start with become habits, make a few more small changes until they feel natural, and so on. This way they become lasting changes. Some easy changes:

• Add a green side salad to your regular meal
• Add vegetables to your pizza, casseroles, etc.
• Choose whole-grain options
• Choose low-fat animal products
• Add fruit to your cereal
• Use vegetable oils instead of butter
• Eat fruit as a sweet snack instead of unhealthy desserts
• Eat nuts or veggies with low-fat dip as a savory snack
• Buy a low-sodium salt which usually replaces 2/3 of the sodium with potassium and tastes just as salty as regular salt

“Every cloud has a silver lining”… “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel”… “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”… There are so many sayings about finding the positive in a bad situation because in the moment it’s hard to remind yourself that things will be ok, let alone that things might even be better afterward. But once you’ve overcome the obstacle, you might realize that you’re better off because of the experience.

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