Hello Friend, Coach Eddie here with Premier Boxing for Fitness.
Most people associate fitness with nothing but positive connotations.
Exercising can help with obesity and stress.
Eating fresh, local, healthy foods is the age old secret to a long and disease-free life.
But what most people don’t realize is that striving to live a healthy lifestyle can carry some seriously negative consequences if you don’t approach it wisely.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for eating right and exercising, but the moment your life begins to revolve around your fitness, then you’ve already lost.
Sacrificing Your Life to be Healthy
For some people an attempt to build a healthy and fit body will result in them structuring their entire life around working out and planning meals at exact intervals.
If they miss a workout or the meal isn't right, then they consider themselves as a failure and get upset.
They take it as an ALL-OR-NOTHING approach to their health and fitness. The perfectionist approach to fitness can turn into an obsession that means they've missed the fact that exercise and healthy eating is meant to complement their life, not take it over.
When You Take Fitness Too Far
When you weigh yourself every hour…
When you compensate the extra food you ate with even more exercising…
When you get angry because you missed your workout…
When you refuse to have cake at any wedding…
…then you’ve officially taken health and fitness too far.
Exercising and healthy eating are simply tools to help you live a happier and more fulfilling life. They are meant to make the things you enjoy doing even more enjoyable.
We all want to look good. We all want to be fit and healthy, but at what cost?
Finding the Middle Ground
If you want your life and fitness habits to work in synergy, then you need to find the middle ground.
The middle ground is where you can enjoy a piece of birthday cake without worrying about how it will make you look. It’s where you can miss a workout and not sweat it.
It’s where you can go a day without weighing yourself.
But of course, finding the middle ground is no easy task.
Finding the middle ground isn’t so much about finding the perfect workout or diet as it is about forging the right mindset.
We all make mistakes. We all fail.
The most important thing to remember is how you failed. You need to learn from your mistakes, as cliché as that sounds.
Find out what triggered you to overeat. Was it stress? If so, what’s causing that stress and what can you do to fix it?
Locate the root cause of your slip-ups and do your best to correct them.
A Life Worth Living
In this ultimate battle for health, in this pursuit of the perfect body, we sometimes fail to understand the true meaning of life and what’s really important.
Of course, everyone has different interpretations on the meaning of life, but I think we can all agree on one thing: life is meant to be enjoyed.
Right? If you’re not enjoying life, then what’s the point of living?
If all you think about is exercise and food and how certain things will affect your body, then you’re never going to truly enjoy the things that make you happy?
You’re not living your own life, but instead you’re living a life controlled by something as menial as eating.
That is not a life worth living.
What Is a Life Worth Living?
A life worth living is one where you can experience new foods without guilt. It’s one where you can pick up a fork and put it in your mouth without a care in world on how it’s going to make you look.
This is a life where you can go through the majority of your day without thinking about what time you’re going to the gym or whether you ate enough protein.
There’s just so much more to life than having an impeccable exercise and nutrition plan. When your life and fitness habits are working together in perfect harmony, you’ll find everything you do more enjoyable.
Food will taste better. Sleep will become more restful. And most importantly, an enormous load of stress and relief will be lifted off your shoulders.
How do you approach health and fitness? Do you control it or does it control you?
Committed to Your Health and Success,
Coach Eddie Akan Studio Manager Premier Boxing for Fitness 510 Wisconsin St. South Houston, TX 77587 Studio Number: 713-794-6454 www.premierboxingforfitness.com coacheddie@premierboxingforfitness.com |
