Are You Exercising For Health?
Ever since Jack LaLane came out all of those years ago, explaining the benefits of exercising, people have since joined gyms and taken up recreational jogging- all with the hopes of living a healthier life.
However, there is much more to living a healthy life than simply exercising each day.
Sure, getting at least two hours of intense exercise each day is great for your health and endurance.
However, none of it is worth much if you don't alter your diet and lifestyle.
Exercising isn't just about doing a few push ups and going to the gym for a few hours.
Instead, you must take a hard look at what your diet consists of.
Are you getting up each morning and eating a donut while drinking a coffee? How many servings of fresh vegetables would you say you're getting on a daily basis? It would be greatly beneficial to you to spend a considerable amount of your free time researching how to eat healthier.
Nowadays, it is difficult- but not impossible- to eat healthier.
There are so many temptations out there, taunting us, persuading us to eat poorly.
Look at all of the fast food restaurants! I wish that someone would come up with fast food restaurants that only served organic, healthy food choices.
When you go to the supermarket, it seems like you are hard pressed to find items that are organic, which don't contain all sorts of additives and preservatives.
That being said, could this be the reason that there are all sorts of health issues now? Are we eating too much red meat and french fries? Eating healthy and exercising takes a great deal of discipline and self motivation.
Ultimately, no one can "force" you to eat something that you don't want.
You have complete and total control over what goes into your mouth.
That being said, who are you really left to point the finger at when you step on the scale or look in the mirror and aren't happy with what you see? Do the right things (or in this case, eat the right things) and you will see the benefits of your efforts.
One way to encourage a healthy change in your life is to encourage everyone you live with to eat healthier.
It is often easier to exercise and eat right if you have a buddy to do it with.
If your husband or partner is constantly asking you to go with him or her to the nearest fast food restaurant, it can weaken your reserve to do better for yourself.
In many cases, couples must divorce themselves from each other when eating in order to make their situations better.
Keeping a food and exercise diary is a great way to not only track what you're eating as well as how much you're exercising- but it's also a great way to pinpoint problem areas in your diet so that you can go back and rectify it later.
For instance, if you look at the scale and wonder why you've gained five pounds when you've been working out four days a week, you may look back in your food diary and realize that for every day that you worked out, you also went straight to the fast food restaurant and ordered something unhealthy.
Sometimes, we set ourselves up for disaster by not having food prepared ahead of time or by eating too early, which causes us to feel famished, which leads to overeating later.
However, there is much more to living a healthy life than simply exercising each day.
Sure, getting at least two hours of intense exercise each day is great for your health and endurance.
However, none of it is worth much if you don't alter your diet and lifestyle.
Exercising isn't just about doing a few push ups and going to the gym for a few hours.
Instead, you must take a hard look at what your diet consists of.
Are you getting up each morning and eating a donut while drinking a coffee? How many servings of fresh vegetables would you say you're getting on a daily basis? It would be greatly beneficial to you to spend a considerable amount of your free time researching how to eat healthier.
Nowadays, it is difficult- but not impossible- to eat healthier.
There are so many temptations out there, taunting us, persuading us to eat poorly.
Look at all of the fast food restaurants! I wish that someone would come up with fast food restaurants that only served organic, healthy food choices.
When you go to the supermarket, it seems like you are hard pressed to find items that are organic, which don't contain all sorts of additives and preservatives.
That being said, could this be the reason that there are all sorts of health issues now? Are we eating too much red meat and french fries? Eating healthy and exercising takes a great deal of discipline and self motivation.
Ultimately, no one can "force" you to eat something that you don't want.
You have complete and total control over what goes into your mouth.
That being said, who are you really left to point the finger at when you step on the scale or look in the mirror and aren't happy with what you see? Do the right things (or in this case, eat the right things) and you will see the benefits of your efforts.
One way to encourage a healthy change in your life is to encourage everyone you live with to eat healthier.
It is often easier to exercise and eat right if you have a buddy to do it with.
If your husband or partner is constantly asking you to go with him or her to the nearest fast food restaurant, it can weaken your reserve to do better for yourself.
In many cases, couples must divorce themselves from each other when eating in order to make their situations better.
Keeping a food and exercise diary is a great way to not only track what you're eating as well as how much you're exercising- but it's also a great way to pinpoint problem areas in your diet so that you can go back and rectify it later.
For instance, if you look at the scale and wonder why you've gained five pounds when you've been working out four days a week, you may look back in your food diary and realize that for every day that you worked out, you also went straight to the fast food restaurant and ordered something unhealthy.
Sometimes, we set ourselves up for disaster by not having food prepared ahead of time or by eating too early, which causes us to feel famished, which leads to overeating later.
