Health & Fitness
Christmas Cookies
Well we inevitably got to the baking section and my wife asked the girls if they would like to make Christmas cookies. Seriously?
Over the weekend the whole family went to the grocery store for our weekly “stock up”. We have a system down every time we walk in the store so we don’t forget anything; it is called go down every single aisle, which is great with two small children. Needless to say I think we need a better system. Well we inevitably got to the baking section and my wife asked the girls if they would like to make Christmas cookies. Seriously? What do you think they said, of course they said yes while jumping up and down.
So we got home and told them after their nap we can make the cookies. Once they got up my wife had everything ready and they started crafting them. (Keep in mind that I am still in my 10 week challenge and cookies are not on the “list” of approved nutrition.) My job was to make sure they stayed away from the oven, quite important if you ask me. As they were cutting and decorating they looked at me with those daughter eyes and said will you have some of the cookies I made. I have said no before, it is not a word that I am unaccustomed to. I feel like I say it quite often everyday but for some reason I just did not get it out of my mouth and I wound up having some of their cookies. Now, in all fairness to me, I usually would have eaten all the cookies and been yelled at from my wife, whereas this time I only had a couple.
Yesterday, I worked out double to make sure I worked off any remaining evidence in my body of those cookies. As I was working out I remembered the 90% rule. Studies have shown that if we can achieve 90% compliance with our nutrition that it is virtually the same as 100%. They found very little data showing a difference from one to the other, which means those of you that think you have to be perfect or “all in” to achieve results are mistaken. The greatest baseball players of all time had batting averages in the 30 and 40% range and they are in the hall of fame!
Moral of the story is:
Mistakes are bound and most likely to happen. It is what we do with the opportunity and that we can still be successful without perfection.
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