How You Feel About Your Body Is Important

Fitness includes so much more than weight loss or workouts. Being a healthy person involves discipline for each day, creates awareness, and instills conscious living. It means being mindful of how you feel about your body and how you treat your body. 

Health Starts in Your Mind

Fitness is a lifestyle that goes way beyond the physical. Living this way starts in your mind and motivates you to live a quality life.

It involves daily choices for becoming a healthy person. When health remains the focus, you are being mindful of treating your body with the utmost care.    

The Problem

What often happens is feeling overwhelmed with trying to be perfect. And this morphs into frustration, insecurities, and not treating our body with the love it deserves.

We can put so much pressure on ourselves to reach a certain weight or squeeze into skinny jeans that we lose sight of how being fit is supposed to feel. A healthy body should feel good but instead many of us accept that fitness is an uncomfortable burden.

And we often accommodate pain from unnecessary extreme workouts on a daily basis. Instead of listening to what is best for our body, we accept exercise methods not appropriate for our fitness levels, medical issues, or not enjoyable mentally.

The pressure to reach unrealistic body goals too quickly has derailed what health should really include for each person. The focus isn't on health but on a temporary goal based on outward appearance.

Healthy lifestyles are meant to be enjoyed for a lifetime, not just for a few months.

Mindful Fitness

A fit lifestyle includes regular exercise that is effective and enjoyable. It doesn't have to be extreme but challenging enough to maintain a healthy body. It also means being mindful of nutrition and eating foods containing a high nutrient value. Consuming nutritious foods will help you feel energized and their antioxidants provide numerous health benefits including protection from illness and disease.

Rest is also important to maintain a healthy body. Without adequate sleep, your body will not be able to recover from the demands placed on it through workouts, stress, and the overall daily grind. Being mindful of your sleep habits will help improve your health and fitness.

A healthy life also requires a balance of work and play. We often lose sight of our inner child replacing it with the busy demands of adulthood. Staying young at heart helps reduce your stress and enables you to enjoy life more. Having a mindful balance of work and play creates a positive, happy mindset that looks forward to shutting down to recharge the mental batteries.

Health and Happiness

The reality is you can enjoy life and live a healthy lifestyle at the same time. This is accomplished by making health a priority and being consistent with your choices. Being fit doesn't mean slaving for hours in the gym and eating boiled fish and broccoli at every meal. This is far from what living a healthy lifestyle looks like.

When the focus is on health and improving the quality of your life, becoming fit happens naturally along the way. This also allows you to let go of the stress of unrealistic fitness goals and quick fixes. The pressure to look a certain way loses its importance as you concentrate more on how good being healthy feels.

Your awareness of the importance of being a healthy person becomes primary in more ways than physical. You are mindful of eating right, exercising your body, and think positive about yourself. Applying this healthy attitude and lifestyle creates the body you want in the way it should happen.

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Achieving a Lean and Healthy Body is Possible for Everyone

There have been fitness misconceptions that special diets, gym memberships, and other expensive gimmicks are required to get fit and healthy. These beliefs are nothing but diet culture hype without scientific backing. The truth is achieving a lean and healthy body is possible for everyone without anything fancy.

What is Needed

Getting healthy and fit doesn't cost lots of money and gym memberships are not required. The only thing needed to reach your fitness goals is to adopt a healthy lifestyle. 

Living healthy means being consistent with eating right, regular exercise, drinking plenty of water, adequate sleep, and life balance.

Buying nutritious food is a great start in maintaining a healthy body. If you're consuming processed foods, lots of sugar, and saturated fats it will be time to change up your grocery list with healthier options.

Living a sedentary lifestyle absence of exercise also contributes to being unhealthy. If this sounds like you, it is time to implement a regular exercise program. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise weekly.

Simplify the Process

We tend to complicate fitness and see it as a difficult process to achieve a lean and healthy body.

Honestly, it's as simple as eating nutritious food in appropriate amounts, exercise, and good rest. But many of us refuse to change this basic part of living. In order to change your body, it will require changing how you take care of your body.

As long as you are consistent with healthy habits, you will be healthy. I am referring to the majority of us not suffering from medical conditions out of our control.

Lean Up Naturally

You can lean up naturally by purchasing healthy foods and eating at home most of the time. Being in control of your food purchases enables you to know what you're eating. You will also be pleasantly surprised by the amount of money saved from not dining out.

Eating healthy 80 percent of the time will result in reduced body fat and being able to see muscle definition. If you are consuming alcohol, it is recommended to reduce or eliminate alcohol intake to see results even faster (according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), moderate drinking is considered up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men). Drinking plenty of water is also an important part of being a healthy person. 

No gym membership is required to get up and move that body. You can even start burning extra calories by taking a brisk walk for 30 minutes several times per week. Add in a few push-ups, squats, crunches, and stretching to create a home program to build muscle.

Achieving a lean and healthy body is not complicated or expensive. What it comes down to are your daily choices and actions that control what you look like inside and out. We all have the ability, but the choice is always up to each of us.

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