I’m Wealthy, I’m Healthy
If you’re healthy, then you are wealthy indeed. Health isn’t something you can buy, but it’s something you can influence, it’s something you can nurture. But do we give our health much thought?
When we are young we don’t give health a second thought. Looking after ourselves is something we don’t worry about. We live life to the full. It’s only when something goes wrong that we are brought up short and forced to think about the way we behave as far as our health is concerned.
What we eat when we are young is mostly up to other people. All we try and do is to avoid green vegetables and anything that is said to ‘be good for us’. Things that are ‘good for you’ you believe taste awful. You far prefer candy and cola.
It all starts to matter when we become teenagers and we begin to take note of our looks and the way others look. We are all too aware of the comparisons that are made.
Parents often have a difficult job convincing their children to eat green vegetables. At an early age, we are not the least interested in what is good for us. We rebel against what we don’t like, and in far too many instances parents lose out to headstrong children. The resulting diet in those crucial years is often not as good as it should, or could be.
To be overweight in your early twenties is not a good thing to be. You are probably not aware of what made you overweight and you have very little idea of how you are going to change matters.
The most important thing is to break bad habits and that requires developing an awareness of what they are. Many of the bad habits will have been endorsed by upbringing. To go against this can be a challenge. What has been accepted as a family culture in terms of diet and exercise takes real resolve and determination to change.
To make change easier it is better not to confront what needs to be changed. It is far better to make that change by learning new habits - slim habits, if you like. This way it will seem like a new beginning, not wrestling with the past.
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