health and fitness success

In order to achieve health and fitness success you have to have a health plan.

Men, women and children can all have a health plan; these can be simple or more advanced.

Health can include diets and eating habits, portion control.

Fitness must include physical and cardio workouts

To improve your health you need to start looking at what you eat. This does not mean give everything bad up and just eat salad.

Portion control, size, could be the first one closely followed by vegetables and fruit daily.

Look for local health food stores that carry natural foods at a good price. Maybe you could find something different to add to your diet. Dietary supplements are also available.

Next we must plan an exercise program that benefits us and is easy to do.

This can be added to as exercising gets easier, and must include physical and cardio workouts.

For example if you do not like to run, then jump on a bike.

Lifting weights or doing push ups the choice is yours, everyone different.

One thing to remember is to increase your water intake when exercising.

Health information on setting these things up is freely available on the internet, and must be tailored to the individual.

Further health tips, health benefits and health articles can be found on this blog.

what are your health habits?

John Dryden famously said, "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
Confucius said, "Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them."
And Aristotle noticed that, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
It's pretty clear that the habits you adopt will shape who you are.
When it comes to your body, the two habits that define your physique are your eating and exercise habits. In fact, everyone that you know who is in great shape has dialed in these two important habits.
If you aren't happy with your body, then simply adjust your eating and exercise habits. Here's how to adopt a habit:
Making a Habit Use these seven steps to create a life-improving habit.
1) Decide on the ONE habit that you would like to develop. It's tempting to pick up 3 or 4 healthy habits, but choosing just one new habit is realistic and doable.
Here are some healthy habit ideas: Do not eat after 7pm each night. Bring your lunch to work instead of eating fast food. Exercise 4 times a week after work for 45 minutes each time. Only eat fruits and veggies as your afternoon snack. Get up early and exercise for an hour each morning. Work with a personal trainer 3 times a week.
2) Write your new habit down on paper. Also include your 3 main motivators for developing this new habit, the obstacles you'll face, and your strategies for overcoming these obstacles.
Here's an example: My new habit is to work with a personal trainer 3 times each week. My 3 main motivators are 1) to feel confident in my bathing suit this summer, 2) to have more energy, and 3) to fit into my skinny jeans. The obstacles I will face are 1) not having the energy to go to my session after work, 2) not having enough money to pay for sessions, and 3) not having my spouse's support. I will overcome these obstacles by 1) doing my workouts before work instead of after work, so I have more energy, 2) cutting down on frivolous spending to ensure that I can afford it, and 3) asking my spouse to join me so we can get in shape together.
3) Commit fully to your new habit, in a public way. This could mean posting it on Facebook, or simply announcing it at the dinner table. Put yourself in a position where you'll be embarrassed to give up on your new habit.
4) Keep track of your progress. You could keep a detailed journal or simply make a check mark on each calendar day that you successfully exercise your new habit.
5) Keep yourself publically accountable. This means either status updates on Facebook or verbal status updates at the dinner table. Your friends and family are in a position to offer you support, so don't shy away from those close to you.
6) When you fail, figure out what went wrong so that you can plan around it in the future.
7) Reward yourself for your success. Once your new habit becomes second nature, usually in about 30 days, feel free to add a second habit by going through the same 7 steps.
I'd love for my fitness program to become your new healthy habit! Please let me know about your success.
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How To Ease Yourself Into An Exercise Program

Many people are aware that exercise has plenty of benefits. In fact, you'd have to pretty much be in a coma your whole life to not know this obvious fact. You can sort of tell by looking at somebody whether or not they're in decent shape or not. Tight muscles, low body fat, upright posture, slim figure. Sure, with so many obese people in the United States, it might not be politically correct to speak in these terms, but if you want to get into shape, you must.
Many people make the mistake of going gung-ho right from the start. They have huge hopes and dreams and a ton of motivation. This is great. But where they stumble is by thinking they can start at a level that is way above their comfort zone. The secret of working out consistently is that it's got to remain inside your comfort zone.
Naturally, in order to accommodate something you're not doing, you've got to expand your comfort zone. But if you try to expand it too quickly, it'll snap right back, and be quite painful to boot. That's why you've got to ease into it.
Think of it this way. Exercise is going to be a lifelong habit. It's not something you'll do for six months, get into shape, and then quit. Because it's something you'll be doing your whole life, doesn't it make sense to ease into it slowly? Of course it does!
So start at a level that is just barely more exercise than you're doing now. If you haven't done anything except walk to your car, walk to work, sit at your desk all day, then walk to your car and drive home, don't think you're going to hit the gym for an hour all of a sudden. Just try to go for a short walk around the block, maybe once or twice a week. Do this for a couple of weeks. Once this seems easy and natural, increase it to every other day.
Once that seems natural, increase it to every day. Once every day seems natural, just increase it however you feel comfortable. For some people, it will be slowly jogging, and eventually running three of four miles a day. For others, it may mean cycling or weight training. Just go wherever you feel most comfortable.
And by all means, give yourself at least six months before you can even think about doing any kind of strenuous exercise on a daily basis. There's no race. You're going to be alive for a long, long time, so you've got plenty of time. Ease into it, and you'll be fine.
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