After months of
hibernation I’m baaaack!!! Spring has sprung and Summer is almost here and like
any other year people have started pounding pavements and hitting that iron.
This got me thinking why is it that we decide to take care of our bodies only
towards Summer and at the beginning of every year but don’t follow through
throughout the year? I’m also guilty of that, at least till last year.
This year I turned
….years old (wouldn’t you love to know haha!) and at the beginning of the year I
said to myself there are certain habits I should leave behind and some I should
acquire because I’m not getting any younger! For now I’ll focus on the physical
- physically for most people it’s to weigh a certain weight or wear a certain
dress size; mine on the other hand was to…..can’t say it here ;-). Now we all
have different reasons why we want to reach our physical goals and I’ve learned
that as long as you have a personal reason why you want to reach that goal you’ll
be able to and maintain it. I am doing
it for myself (for now), health reasons, others do it for their children, I met
a lady sometime last week who said she lost all her excess weight for spiritual
reasons; our bodies are a temple of God and we should treat it as such.
Recently I came
across a sad reality, we are judged by the way we look and first impressions,
how we look and present ourselves really do count. A certain company was
looking for young females to promote its brand, they went to a Bootcamp group
and didn’t ask for cv’s or anything of that sort but they wanted fit and
healthy looking individuals – that’s a job opportunity right there. It is amazing
how taking care of yourself can give you choices in life, not just work related
but relations in general as well.
If
you know me well enough you’ll know I’m all for inner beauty; in the quest to
acquire that though let us not neglect the vessel that carries all that beauty
and brain. Unfortunately this is one of those things in life no one can do for
you no matter how much you pay them. If you don’t take care of yourself nobody
else will, if you don’t love yourself nobody will for you, if you don’t respect
yourself nobody else will…
I
joined a healthy living challenge with a few of my friends that will go on for
the next 11 weeks, to prevent myself from going back to my old habits I have to
remind myself daily why I want what I want.
They say it takes 21-30 consecutive days to form a habit, I should be
good. What’s your reason?
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