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Reasons or Excuses are Both the Same When it Comes to Getting Fit

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Let's be honest about how reasons affect our overall health, fitness and daily lifestyle. Reasons are often used to avoid a workout or eat healthy meals, agreed? They are really the same as excuses that keep us from getting fit.   We want the fit and healthy body but come up with every reason in the book to avoid doing the work to achieve the goal. Why? What continues to get in the way of the thing we most want?   We almost have a rebellious attitude toward health and fitness . We convince ourselves we can achieve our goals even with unhealthy eating and exercise habits. A negative attitude, excuses, and rebel behavior is definitely not going to achieve a healthy body or mind. We really need to change our mind in order to change our body.  If getting fit were easy, everyone would be doing it. Health and fitness require effort and planning. Why is there such an issue with working for our goals? Everything in life worthy of anything takes work. Health is a gift and fitness is the act

How I Maintain a Healthy Perspective About Fitness

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I love eating healthy, being active and how I feel as a healthy woman. I adopted a healthy lifestyle years ago and never looked back. Today it's my state of being and natural existence. My passion for health and fitness has become my occupation which is really a goal we should all have in life. When we do what we love, it really doesn't feel like work. It's a sharing and teaching of how I live my life. It feels awesome to be able to provide this gift to so many people. I am realistic about health and fitness. I don't teach perfection but celebrate progress. Fitness is not about a restrictive lifestyle but a healthy balance of eating right 80 to 90 percent of the time and regular exercise. I also don't believe in taking things to extremes where health would feel like a burden for me or anyone else. I encourage a strong and positive mental game and keeping health in perspective . When we enjoy our food intake and physical activity performed, it becomes a healthy hap

Do YOU have a well-defined support network?

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One of the hallmarks of true, positive and sustainable change (ANY change) is the existence of a support network to assist you in creating new habits and healing from the struggles that have kept you from the life you want to live. A Support Network is a group of friends, neighbors, mentors, coaches or family members that you can count on to listen discreetly and provide advice, a lending hand or even just an ear to listen.  They are the closest people we know and we have 100% trust in their conviction to honor our privacy and personal needs.  Support networks have been shown to reduce depression, anxiety, social isolation and even chronic life stress.  Support networks aren�t ONLY about your mental health either!  All of these psychosocial conditions have actually been linked to an increased risk of coronary artery disease equaling that of the risk from hypertension and high cholesterol! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10217662 We talk a lot about community at Motiv8 but having a