Like millions of Americans I’ve often struggled due to a poor diet, based on poor choices stemming from making decisions based on immediate gratitude. I love food and like a lot of people I like a lot of foods that aren’t good for me. These choices would often be magnified when I was stressed. Poor diet choices created more and more poor diet choices. I would justify it by convincing myself that it was more important for me to feel good right at that moment than to think of the bigger picture of my health.

I’m embarrassed to admit it, but often it was downright gluttony. Eating an entire frozen pizza on one sitting? Overdosing on macaroni and cheese? Eating not one but often two bowls of cereal? I took stress eating to the next level. My focus was in the wrong place. It was focused on how food makes me feel.

I had to change your mindset about diet, not on how food makes me feel, but how it affects my energy. Binging on chocolate or eating an entire frozen pizza may give you that short term fix, but you’ll soon regret it. The key is not making that decision in the first place. So how do you do that?

My mindset changed when my view of food and drink changed. If you focus on your energy you’ll be amazed at how you mindset about food and drink changes. It extends to many other areas of life, including your sleep. Make an effort to understand your body better and how the decisions you make affect your energy. If certain foods don’t agree with you are make you sluggish, avoid those foods. If other foods make you a more energetic and positive person, eat those foods.

So change your mindset. Focus on energy.