Are You Doing Everything You Can???

As we go through life, no matter what stage we are in, we are always striving to attain something.  Part of being a human is setting goals. We are cultured to want and to accomplish.  From childhood, we want to buy toys and the response is "work for the money so you can pay for it yourself." We go to school and our goal is to get good grades. We go to college and create goals for adulthood. We work hard to get what we want while other goals seem to remain untouched. Yessss...you know what I'm speaking of, our health goals.

Somehow our health goals end up taking a backseat to the other goals we set in life, and before we know it, health problems seem to creep up on us.  Somehow we got bigger than we've ever been, developed high cholesterol or even diabetes.  The truth is that we've never really prioritized our health, but we expect our health to maintain itself.  We use excuses as to why we can't exercise. We choose the faster options for food because of our busy schedules yet we make time to watch Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, So You Think You Can Dance, etc.  These shows don't contribute much to our health.  In fact, sitting on our bottoms watching these programs actually diminish our health, as our lower backs get weaker from sitting on couches and reclining in beds. The truth is we have to make time for our exercise and overall health.

And to that I ask, are you doing everything you can to help achieve your health goals? Are you doing the minimum amount of cardio recommended by the government (2.5 hrs per week)? Have you made the change to your diet that will get you the results that you're striving for?Are you putting in an extra day of weights at the gym? If you haven't made any of these changes, what kind of results are you really expecting? How can you expect your BEST results? I'm not saying you have to go from 0-60 in one day, week or month...but as time increases you better believe that your yearning and willingness to achieve your goals better be increasing ESPECIALLY if you start to plateau and your change starts to slow down.

Let's stop talking about what we are going to do and rather...as Nike says it, JUST DO IT!!!