{"id":6281,"date":"2026-11-09T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:16:25","slug":"the-benefit-of-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/the-benefit-of-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefit of Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the benefit of review? Many programs, professionals, or sites will suggest keeping a journal. I\u2019ve done it here multiple times. While there is inherent benefit in writing things down, a journal offers much more when you take time to review it. Without review, you may miss a problematic food response, a pattern that is prolonged over so much time that it isn\u2019t obvious, or you may fail to see the progress you\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The correct review schedule is the one that works for you. It will be best if you can find a time that you are rested and have few distractions. If you can only carve out small chunks of time, that\u2019s okay. You don\u2019t have to review a whole year at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may want to take a tiered approach. Perhaps do a monthly review, make note of anything that surprises you, that you\u2019ve learned, and the progress you see. Save these notes and review them at the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no magic to monthly review. You know yourself best. If you need longer to settle into feeling comfortable recording things, you may want to wait 6 months or a year before reading what you\u2019ve written. This will give you time to get in the groove of choosing the information you need to write down, determining what information you want to access later, and what it feels best to get off your chest and onto paper or a screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years of schooling can make it seem like we should set out on a path with very specific goals and a narrow view of how we plan to achieve them. Without review that may not lead to success because we won\u2019t see where we\u2019re wasting time or spinning our wheels. Looking back can help us make the most efficient and effective adjustments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes we resist looking back because we\u2019re afraid we\u2019ll focus on what hasn\u2019t worked well or want to punish ourselves for not doing enough or being good enough. But what we\u2019re really resisting is a chance to learn and improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More people than ever before are able to get our attention delivering expertise. They edit themselves to look perfect and perfectly confident. That doesn\u2019t mean they haven\u2019t worked hard, failed, reinvented, and revised before you even knew who they were. That\u2019s how they became experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most knowledgeable mechanic has learned the way to remove X before doing Y. The most knowledgeable plumber has learned from messy mistakes. The best lawyers review both their mistakes and those of others to determine the most effective tack to take in a given case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Effective journaling and review will assure that you are an expert on your physical responses, feelings, and perceptions. This knowledge will help you ask better questions of your doctor, therapist, and even friends when you\u2019re trying to plan. It will help you feel more grounded and stronger. And it can surprise you in the best ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t always recognize the incremental steps we are making toward improvement. Seeing the results of those small steps become a big change over time can bring a sense of accomplishment and excitement to keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve written 727 blog posts that represent close to a million words. I\u2019ve chosen over 1200 images to post along with those words. A words to pages calculator tells me that\u2019s 83 hours and 20 minutes of content or the equivalent of 2062 single-spaced pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if I haven\u2019t caught all the typos or chosen the most perfect words, I can\u2019t look at those stats and say I haven\u2019t accomplished something. And that\u2019s the benefit of review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the benefit of review? Many programs, professionals, or sites will suggest keeping a journal. I\u2019ve done it here multiple times. While there is inherent benefit in writing things down, a journal offers much more when you take time to review it. Without review, you may miss a problematic food response, a pattern that … Continue reading “The Benefit of Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,9],"tags":[4124,3066,1785,4123,4122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}