I’m Wealthy, I’m Healthy
To be healthy, wealthy and wise must be everybody’s dream. What is the most valuable? It has got to be health. Health is something you can’t buy. Sometimes, though we don’t give as much thought to our health as we should.
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.
Our attitude to health and diet and exercise in particular, is formed when we are young. Of course what we like best when we are growing up are all the things we shouldn’t eat, sugary things and sweet drinks to name but two.
Only when we reach our teenage years do we take more note of the way we look. Now we notice if we’re fatter than our friends. It starts to matter.
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 a real and lasting difference it’s not diets that are needed, but a more fundamental change in behaviour. The only really successful way to do this is to learn new habits, slim habits, that will enable lasting change to take place.