Do you find it especially hard to maintain your good eating habits these days? Have you lost your health goals? Maybe you’re back to where you once started? Whatever you feel, remember, your feelings are valid and reasonable, and you’re not alone!

American pancakes. My healthy eating habits have changed throughout the pandemic.

Personally, I’m struggling to find joy in the same stuff that kept me going the first months of lockdown. The American pancakes with berries and dark chocolate, in example, don’t taste the same anymore, and I find myself adding more and more chocolate as the months go by…

Instant Changes All Around Us

What we knew as normal was swept underneath our feet overnight. It truly does something to a human being when you suddenly have to face a life of uncertainty, and also being deprived of control of our own lives. You see, physically, our machinery wants to keep doing the same things every day. That’s why it’s so bloody hard changing habits, right, because it takes too much energy for the brain to start thinking and behaving differently.

The fact that everything drastically changed from one day to the next (as opposed to a lifestyle change), maight have been the biggest challenge about the pandemic. Forget about taking small steps that suit you – suddenly it was all about: Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives. Well, truth is, it took long before any established guidance got announced, but when it was out there…

We Adapted and Conquered

Nobody was trained (nor prepared) to handle a crise like this. We had to adapt quickly and along the way, and boy did we adapt! From how we handled changes at school and continue doing our jobs, and to ways we got ourselves through another day and methods to keep our spirits up. I hope you understand what a memorable and impressive effort you’ve put down the last year and more!

If someone told me March 2020 how next year would look like, I could easily have lost it immediately (only happened occasionally, thank you home school). But if this year has shown us anything, it must be how powerful, versatile and tolerable we are. It’s actually pretty amazing to think about what we are able to accomplish, don’t you agree?   

Let’s Do This!

So let’s keep holding on to those feelings of satisfaction and pride, because you’ve almost made it through! Do whatever you need to do in terms of keeping your spirits high the next months; Bake a cake, shout it all out, order a takeaway etc. Even though the everyday we’re longing for has never felt closer, it’s still important that we follow the restrictions. Then we can finally focus on the more desired stuff; taking small steps that suit you!