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What's Luck Got To Do With It?
March and St. Patrick's Day brings up thinking about LUCK. The shamrock is a symbol of luck and it's associated with St. Paddy's Day. You are not fit and healthy because you are lucky. You are not pudgy and lethargic because you are unlucky. The fitness lifestyle is a choice as is the couch potato life.One thing I love about St. Patrick's Day and all the festivities is that the whole day is celebrating green! I tell my clients and friends to eat green and other vibrant colored foods and the results will be health and vitality. Stay away from eating brown and white food because that will get you to lethargy and sluggishness.
Choosing healthy and well-conditioned versus apathy and depression seems to me to be a "no-brainer". Why do people choose to become inactive? Disuse is the main cause for ailments from arthritis to strength loss to despair. I know it takes work and determination to get from flab to fab, but the payoffs are tremendous.
When you decide to become more active, you need to think in "baby-steps" and not the all or nothing mentality. Since you've been inactive for a long time-it's going to take a while to see your life turn around. If you are coming from a place where you used to be in shape and active then you'll see things happen faster. Your body remembers how it felt to be strong and agile. It likes that feeling and it will respond fast to exercises that promote health and wellness.
The next time you see someone doing something physical that makes their heart stronger, their skeletal system support them better, and their self worth climb a notch or two, think to yourself-"that could be me".
Everywhere you look there are opportunities for you to be more active. Take advantage of what your area has to offer and get up off the couch and dare to BFIT. What's Luck got to do with it??
In Health,
Bonnie
