Dieting takes discipline and in order to discipline yourself, you have to really want something. You have the power to change your health, situations and circumstances, but you have to want it.
Commitment brings consistency, so commit to change and be consistent with your actions and you will see results.
When I wake up in the morning, I have the option to sit around and drink coffee, surf the net, catch up on daily chores before work, or I have the option to put on my workout clothes, grab a bottle of water and put in my Insanity, P90X, Les Mills, etc.... Because I have a goal to be healthy and fight the health effects genetics have brought into my life, I choose to workout. Some say I am obsessed because I work out 6 days a week. No, I just know that it is something I have to do considering my families health history, and I have grown to enjoy the benefits from my efforts.
What is your turning point?
My diet for the first 30 years of my life consisted of fried taters, fried okra, fried chicken, dumplings, biscuits and gravy, potato salad, pizza, cheeseburgers, peach cobbler, and on and on and on.
As I sat in a hospital waiting room, while my mother had her second open heart surgery, the doctor came in to give the prognosis; this is when I had my turning point.
Basically the doctor had done all that he could, removed the blockage and re-routed arteries, but if she did not change her diet, there would be nothing more he could do for her. My Mother had diabetes, heart disease and a list of other ailments. By making chances which included daily exercise and a considerable change to her diet she would have a chance of living a happy, healthy life.
I decided I must make changes in my own life, or I would be in the same position. I committed to eating healthy. It was a process for me because I did not really know what healthy eating was. I began the South Beach diet which was easy for me to follow and discovered the more healthy foods I ate, the more healthy foods I craved. That was over 10 years ago and I have maintained clean eating habits and learned more regarding diets, health and fitness since then, but I had to have a turning point.
My mother unfortunately, was not able to make the changes necessary and passed away from heart disease at the age of 69. I am 42 now and have never had an issue with high blood pressure or major health issues. If I had not changed my lifestyle could I say that? I don't think so.
You are in control of your health if you want to be. You must decide what works for you and start with baby steps. Just put forth the effort and see what happens.
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