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Everyone is different as to what works for them, so pay attention to what you are feeling when you consider your options. If you are feeling that what you are doing isn’t enough, focus instead on what your body is telling you. If you feel that more is better, consider that doing too much too quickly often leads to injuries, frustration and giving up. Good is good enough. You aren’t competing to reach a goal. Only you know how much you really can do and how hard you can push yourself. It isn’t a race when you first start a new healthy habit, it is a behavioral change that takes time to fully adapt and incorporate into your lifestyle.
Using a Healthy Lifestyle to Increase Your Happiness
What is different about having a healthy lifestyle that feels wonderful as opposed to doing a diet or intense program is the realization that the focus is creating a healthier way of living and not a one-time or short-term event that is focused on achieving a set goal. When you focus on the goal and stop the new behavior once it is reached, you will soon lose what you gained from the program. That is frustrating, disappointing and impacts your self-esteem and your happiness. Many of us have experienced this. It is so hard to get a taste of feeling better about ourselves and our bodies only to lose it, especially if doing it in the first place felt like a lot of effort.
Next time around, give yourself permission to ease into a consistent healthy routine at a pace you can handle. You don’t have to try to do it all at once. Start off moving your body, then introduce healthier foods and later add in some quiet time. Or do the reverse. Listen to what you really need to do first. Or if you are already active and eat well, see if you need more sleep, relaxation, fun or personal time. Soon you will get a taste of how good you can really feel. You may surprise yourself and feel happier than you have felt in a long time.
© 2009. Excerpted with permission from Feel Great in Your Body by Alice Greene.
Alice is America’s Healthy Lifestyle Coach and a bestselling author. She teaches people the secrets to becoming a health, fitness and healthy weight success story, and guides them through a positive lifestyle-and mindset-changing process for long-term results. Alice is an expert in motivation, healthy dieting, healthy fitness and self-care. Learn more at
www.aHealthyLifestyleWorks.com.
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