Reflection On The Superbetter Activity

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For my Choice Paper I decided to do the SuperBetter Activity. I have never seen anything like this before, so it was a brand new, slightly challenging experience for me. For my challenge, I set a goal of losing weight through the SuperBetter. I set my goal and realized slightly after starting that it was a little bit of a big goal. I said I would like to lose 10 lbs. I was thinking that using SuperBetter would get me in the right mindset and mentally give me the encouragement to achieve this goal. After a couple days of playing I thought that it would help me calm down and realize that I do have the power to lose the weight if I want to. I approached it as a mind over matter situation, and if I could get my mind in the proper place, then I would be able to do anything I wanted to, like achieving this goal that I set for myself.
The two most common and my two favorite power-ups were the Chug a Glass of Water and Got a Block? Walk around it! These two were done every day at least once. It is something that is so simple, it could not be passed up. I tried to drink a glass of water right when I woke up and right before I would eat dinner. After a week of doing this, I would tell a
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It confirmed my thought process of losing weight being a mind over matter situation. I know that I can do it, I just need to mentally prepare myself for the hard times that are to come because it will not be easy. Mentally deciding that eating junk food all day is not the best idea, is something that will for sure help in aging. The older you get, the more you really do need to worry about the foods that are being placed in your body and the types of foods that you are consuming. Strengthening your mental resilience and understanding why some things are just the way they are, is something that will impact your aging experience in a positive manner. The more it is worked on the easier it will

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