This step begins with thinking about what you eat and how you move. We just need to think about it all differently than we have. After all, we aren’t doomed by our genes – we can become our own epigenetic engineers, turning on and off appropriate expressions of genes to help us live in optimally healthy ways. When your mind is quiet and unattached to these cruel tricks, you will be better able to think about and plan your choices, future actions and new levels of health. This may require mindful meditation, or another way of quieting your mind to think positively and clearly, unencumbered by misleading commercials, sneaky supermarket marketing tactics, social influences of friends, attractive packaging, the allure of easy and quick fast foods, etc. I believe, from tens of thousands of hours of coaching folks over decades, that when your mind is quiet enough and you can hear your inner voice, it will direct you properly. No, you don’t need someone else to tell you what those steps are. The best way I know how is to begin by visually rehearsing and imagining what you would need to stop doing and start doing to create the healthier future you want to have. Crossing over the “river of change” and creating a healthier shape, requires that you leave your predictable self with those thoughts and behaviors that created the “out of shape” you. Let’s understand first that you are not really ever “out of shape.” Rather, you are in the shape that you created. Thinking in a healthy way is intimately linked with maintaining a consistent commitment to a fit lifestyle, reasonable weight, longevity, a better quality of life, and positive emotions. If you aren’t thinking clearly, you won’t be able to honestly recognize the need to change, to eat as though your life depended on it, or begin and sustain an effective exercise program. No tricks, apps, trainer or doctor can do it for you. It all begins with, and is sustained by, your healthy thinking. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s focus on the 80% of the time that many do stay committed to a healthy lifestyle and identify the most effective ways it can be achieved. We generally follow the 80%-20% rule – most of the time we think, eat and move well, and sometimes we don’t. Not your physician, trainer, your favorite celebrity, or even those of us who write about tips for healthy living. Do you know anyone who leads a perfectly healthy lifestyle? Of course you don’t.
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