Healthy eating is critical to healthy weight loss and healthy living. Food is fuel for the body. Pleasure too. We can't forget that, but too many high fat, high sugar foods will make us feel sluggish, tired and zapped of energy to say nothing of potential weight gain. Eighty percent of weight loss comes from eating healthfully.
Fitness is also a major piece of the healthy living puzzle. Finding ways to turn downtime into up time by moving more is a great way to go. Taking longer walks to the restroom, parking further from the door, checking out the fitbreak app on weightwatchers.com can give you great ideas for anytime and anywhere. Making time for fitness is so important to counteract the sedentary lifestyle that technology creates. Exercise is the best source for stress reduction. Meditation is the second best source. We can do both. In fact, I teach both in my yoga classes.
Finally, fulfillment...ah yes...what have you done for yourself lately? What do you do on a regular basis that makes you feel good about who you are? Hobbies, fitness, social time, crafts, projects, bubble baths, recess at work, massage, napping, listening to music...these are all ways to recharge the battery and feel better about life. If you give all your attention and energy away to others, the battery runs down, and the resentment builds. At times like that, it seems so easy to turn to food to cope. It doesn't help though. It actually adds more frustration and stress.
The better we feel, the better we do. This means shining a spotlight on all three things: health, fitness and fulfillment. Like I said, what have you done for yourself lately? You can always start now. You might even consider it the best holiday gift of all--the gift of time, that you give yourself, to take good care of you. After all, you are worth it.
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