Think outside the food box

“You are working on a healthier life, but you find yourself obsessing about calorie counts and food foes. Here's how to think outside the food box.”

If you constantly think about food, what you can or can't eat, how you'll manage at your sister's wedding dinner, and if eating a Twizzler will blow your diet, you need a reality check. If you have this much time to obsess, maybe you need to find something more constructive to think about. Think beyond yourself. Get some food perspective. Go volunteer at a food bank, women's shelter, or online to sponsor a needy child. Realizing that your excess can actually turn someone else's life around can be very liberating, and motivating. Look at this as an opportunity to not only change your life, but someone else's.