Have you ever thought about what being ‘healthy’ actually means to you? Do you consider yourself to be healthy? Are you striving to be ‘healthier’ or do you feel you are at your optimum health? What is your optimum ‘health’ – it ‘s probably different for each one of us.
So, to answer the question, for me these are my 3 important points that makes me feel Healthy:
1. Exercise
Now I know you’ll all be thinking, well.. she’s bound to say that, she couldn’t really say anything else :). Its true, however, for me I think its about being fit enough to do all the activities that you love. For me, this means being strong and supple enough to ski, cycle, walk in the hills, play with my grandson. I do not want to be in a position where my body lets me down. I’m prepared to put in the hard work to maintain a level of fitness that suits my lifestyle – I want to be able to cycle from London to Paris, to do the Moonwalk and this year (yay!!) trek for 19 days to Everest Base Camp. These things give me direction, a purpose and a fantastic feel good factor, thats what motivates me! So, what about YOU, what motivates you to exercise? Where are you priorities in life? Are you happy with your level of fitness? If not, do something about it, its all down to you, about you taking responsibility for your body – do something positive today and get moving!
2. Nutrition
Another biggie! One for me that has slowly evolved and is still evolving. I never really acknowledged how important nutrition was to your health – dumb I know, but, I naively thought I could exercise bad nutrition away!!! Wrong, wrong, wrong! Over the last year, you will all know that I decided to take my own nutrition in hand and see if I could change the way I was feeling. Although, I exercise constantly and consider myself to be reasonably fit, I still felt ‘unhealthy’. I got so tired in the afternoons, sometimes needing to sleep, I got so hungry all the time, craving junk food, bad carbs and sugar. My energy levels were low and I felt that something had to change! I’ve done a massive amount of research and tried some things out over the summer – Wow!!! What a change, not only in my body, but my ‘health’. Those of you that did the detox experienced similar changes, I will start putting up more articles and info on clean eating on my website. I thought I was a relative good eater until I started this journey 🙂
3. Mindset
Yep, another biggie! Taking care of your emotional wellbeing is so important, our lives are one continual journey of growth and development, we need this as humans, lets not forget that – embrace it. Enjoy being who YOU are, do things that make you happy, that make you feel fulfilled, be YOU and be the best that you can be. Don’t go through life lacking confidence, lacking belief in yourself, having low self -esteem – its easier to change these things than you think, remember one small achievable step at a time is the way forward 🙂
So, there are my 3 important points, they all need to be working for me to feel ‘Healthy” – What are yours??