I am coming to realize that what is important and makes for a
successful weight-loss as well as conditioning myself to be healthy is simply
ROUTINE.
Yes, you need to have routine like the routine of your everyday life-
brushing your teeth, cleaning your body, doing your hair/make-up, eating a
meal, getting dressed; these are just some daily routines, routines that you
didn’t just start doing at birth but you now adapted as a daily function.
Why have you adapted them? Because they needed to be done! So why do
we as adults not make exercising and eating healthy as part of our daily
routine? Yes part of it is our upbringing, part of it is we get busy living our
lives, working, playing, raising a family and we just can’t fathom fitting that
function into our already busy day. So now we forget that working on our health
and a proper diet is not that important and we start to age, we gain weight, we
get health issues and have health crisis’s, we start to get lazy, I don’t mean
lazy like being a rock and veg’ing all day in front of the television or
sleeping excessive hours away, I’m talking lazy like not making exercise your
routine, like giving up on getting healthy,
like trashing your healthy eating, like overindulging on junk food and
alcohol and under eating good wholesome foods.
So I’m now trying to correct my bad habits and rejuvenate my good
habits. I use to work out better, ride bike, hit the weights, go hiking and
when I had a serious health crisis I slid from my once better routine. Yes I
had to preserve my strength to get through that year and I did, I did it very
smoothly considering what I dealt with and I was able to do so because I was in
good physical health. But I’ve aged, quite a bit! I’m not as energetic as I use
to be, not as fit, not as strong and some of my determination seemed to have
dropped from me. But I’d like to think 14 years later I am going to succeed,
I’m going to get back to a better healthier me and I need to do this just by
having a routine!!
Are you ready to make a change to your routine? You need to! If your
life is so busy you just can’t possibly think you can fit it in, YOU ARE DEAD
WRONG!! You don’t have to start big and hard and do long workouts. Just try to
dedicate to 3 days a week of some form of cardio, your mind will love you, your
body will love it and you will begin that much needed change in your routine.
Than you can gradually work on doing more, doing better, whatever works for
your lifestyle. Stop finding excuses, yes you’ll be tired and yes you’ll
probably get sore
Dedicate this year to a change in your future health, start small,
build up to a good solid routine and live longer and a more active life. Do you
see yourself as a rock on that chair in your future years or do you want to be
that mature person who is moving and doing, getting and going, able to live
that rest of their life to the best of ability, if so, you need to react now!!
