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Last night’s Fall Nutrition Program’s meeting was all about cutting ourselves slack.

During this challenge, participants score their day of eating. If they ate what they’re supposed to, 5 points. If they deviate from the list, each time they lose a point. We talked about how it isn’t that big of a deal to miss a couple points here or there. The key is to then make sure you get back to hitting 5 points. Consistency not perfection.

It’s a reasonable challenge that fights off our perfectionist urges, which, all of us have. My hope, that by deciding a beer is worth losing a point, people will start to improve their relationship with food and ditch the locked in or off the rails attitude that’s all too common.

Justin Miner

@portsmouthcoach