Thursday, January 1, 2009

How to Slim Down and be Healthy

By Henry John

Far too many of us forget that the most precious thing that we possess is ourselves. Why is it that we treat our bodies with such little respect? Its not as if we have the option to trade our bodies in for a better working model. Medical science has not yet in a position to offer us a new body if the one weve got starts to give up on us.

Its very strange that we allow our bodies to be neglected. If we have any regard for them you would think that we would do everything we could to keep them in tip-top condition, but we treat them with a lot of disrespect.

How we look clearly demonstrates to all around us exactly what we feel about our bodies. It gives a very clear picture of what sort of person we are and what we think is important.

All of us in our heart of hearts know this, but somehow we do very little to resolve the problem. Yes, there are some excuses that can be made and there are circumstances that deflect our attention away from looking after ourselves properly, but we all need to be able to get our priorities right if we are to stay healthy.

Being overweight is a classic sign of neglecting your body, or to put it another way, of not paying yourself proper attention. This is not something that suddenly happens, neglect is a long running story. The only person who has allowed this to happen is you.

To get healthy you need to break the cycle and identify why you are overweight. What are the bad habits that you have that have contributed to you being overweight? If you can identify these it will be an enormous help to you. It will also help you to become more self-aware.

What you then need is a program that offers a roadmap to making change and is able to give you as much support as possible. Making change isnt difficult, we change every day of our lives " its what life is all about.

Having identified you bad habits you need to learn new ones. What you dont do is to try and change your bad habits. Successful behavior change is always best achieved by learning new habits. The only sure fire way to a slim, healthy life is to learn new habits " slim habits. Its also the key to permanent weight loss. - 16003

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