We Control What Our Body Looks Like

The truth about health and fitness is we either want it or we don’t. Let’s face it, many of us come up with reasons not to exercise or eat healthy. We even sound pretty convincing. Unfortunately, all the reasons in the world eventually catch up to us in the form of illness or injury.

What we fail to realize is how much our lifestyle impacts our health.The food we eat, how we move and rest our body is truly our medicine. Many of us continue to walk around in an unhealthy body and come to accept this existence. We are missing out on how good we're supposed to feel and look. Our body reflects our lifestyle. True story.

I want to believe all of us have a strong desire to be healthy people. Working in the health and fitness industry, I certainly hear this loud and clear. We talk about wanting to feel and look better, but what continues to be lacking is the action required to make this happen. More often than not, healthy living isn't a priority.

Living a life of excuses will not change our health or appearance. It only guarantees us not to feel our best most often accompanied by unhappiness. Change takes changing our daily habits. The body we have is controlled by what we do. I'm sure we can all agree on that statement. Let me clarify my reference is to the general population who have the ability to get healthy. Some medical conditions and illness are out of our control, but I have seen those who struggle to live the healthiest lives. Another true story.

Our first step to change our body for the better is owning our current lifestyle. This includes admitting we are making excuses not to eat healthy, exercise, sleep more, reduce stress and the list goes on. It's important to understand why health is not a priority.

Admitting our part in creating an unhealthy body can piss us off and it should. It's in that frustrated moment we can really be honest about our life and body. That proverbial slap in the face is often the beginning of getting serious about a healthy lifestyle becoming our medicine. Think about these things:

• We're responsible for replacing reasons with action. 
• We're capable of taking care of our health and making it a priority.
• Having a fit body can happen at every age and it's never too late to start.
• We control what our body looks like. 

Being healthy and having a fit body is achievable for all of us and should be our lifetime goal. Dependence on prescribed drugs for self-imposed health conditions continues to increase and becoming an epidemic problem. Let me clarify certain medications are required for a small percentage of the populous but not for the general population who can get healthy. Many cholesterol lowering and blood pressure medications can be discontinued when weight is lost and body composition improved.

The problem is accommodating an unhealthy lifestyle justifying it with reasons that really can't be validated. A healthy lifestyle is not an occasional event and requires full-time effort. Life is the event we need to be fit for and we only get one chance to do it right.

The bottom line is results can and will happen, but the choice is up to you.

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