To kick off this week’s link post, I have a great quote from the charming mind of a celebrity fave:
“Expectation is the mother of all frustration.” – Antonio Banderas
“The fact is, our basic needs are simpler than we often think. Our other, more nuanced needs, are more essential than we often think.”
“I try to create an environment that creates success; the right foods in the house, people around me who are on the same page. It isn’t about feeling like you can’t do it. It’s about creating a winning environment.”
“Many diets also require constant calculations to determine calorie counts. All this clogs up the brain. Psychologists measure the impact of this clogging on various tasks: logical and spatial reasoning, self-control, problem solving, and absorption and retention of new information. Together these tasks measure “bandwidth,” the resource that underlies all higher-order mental activity. Inevitably, dieters do worse than nondieters on all these tasks; they have less bandwidth.”
“…with each judging gaze of my blinded by light and bliss eyes, deep down inside I wished I, too, could just take off my crystals and that itchy hemp shirt and just wear my Walmart shorts and eat a Nestle ice cream and be okay with that, too.”
“Eating the right foods for your body certainly helps, but weight management is about more than food. All of my clients whose primary goal is weight loss begin to lose weight only when they focus less on food and more on living a happier life.”
The Clean Plate 