Focusing on Fitness – How to Change Your Life

If you really want to make yourself have a healthy lifestyle, you will need to focus your life on fitness. This is an easy thing to do, and after you do, you will wonder how you ever lived another way. Focusing on fitness is as easy as fueling your machine, going the extra mile, expecting exercise, and appreciating yourself. Following these rules will improve your life and motivate people around you to take notice and make positive changes in their lives as well.

Fueling Your Machine

Fueling your machine is a simple way of saying that you should eat right. Most people have a hard time getting away from eating for taste. If you have a hard time getting away from eating for taste or texture (i.e. eating for your mouth), then think about it this way: what if someone offered you a shiny special fuel for your car that looked beautiful, but it would ruin your car years earlier than regular fuel? Would you use that fuel just because of the way it looked? Or smelled even? No, so why are you doing the same or worse for your body? Put healthy food in your body to fuel it the best way you know possible and can afford.

Going the Extra Mile

On days when you don't feel like exercising, those are the days that you need to go an extra mile. Have you ever woken up early and gone for a run and been surprised by how good you felt once you actually got going? Take that to the next level by going an extra mile – putting extra weight on the stack or increasing resistance/incline/distance. Going an extra mile will impress how flexible your body actually is. You can actually go farther than your sluggish brain might tell you. After you've broken through the initial barrier, you will learn just how strong you are to push past barriers that you are only imposing on yourself.

Expecting Exercise

This is a simple practice. Expect yourself to exercise. In everything you do. Oh, you need to go to work? How about you walk part of the way there? Oh, you need to go upstairs? Can you guess what I'm going to tell you? Yes, walk those stairs. Even walking one flight of stairs helps you to exercise without even thinking. You need to go someplace within a mile from your work? Is anything stopping you from walking? What about bicycling to work? How far do you live from the closest grocery store? All the walking you can do will help you, in little ways that you never imagined.

Appreciating Yourself

This is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Take time out for yourself to exercise and to meditate. Celebrate your achievements in healthy ways. Give yourself time for more.

All these steps of fueling your machine, going the extra mile, expecting exercise, and appreciating yourself will reinforce your healthy lifestyle and make you even healthier. Follow this cycle and you will be healthier and happier. You will not believe the change.