Why Should Women be Healthy?
What’s Your Why?
What’s your why for enjoying a healthy diet? Determining your true motivation for why you want to be healthy adds feeling and emotion to your goal, making it easier to achieve. Most people are not motivated my numbers on a scale, but they can picture themselves having more energy and feeling great. Focusing solely on your weight will leave you always stepping on the scale and analyzing the results with your calculator. How boring, right? Health is so much more than a number! Here are just a few very important reasons that might make your personal “Why Be Healthy List”. Can you connect with any of these?
Why Be Healthy List
-Increased energy to do what you love.
-A sense of balance and awareness with your life.
-Ability to choose what you eat, instead of being controlled by cravings.
-Feeling more comfortable in your own skin.
-Serving as an example to others.
-Living longer and with more joy.
The Key to Healthy Eating During Menopause
Counting calories doesn’t work! It’s just another way to fit food into the “numbers game”, but you’ll miss the bigger picture. Food is your fuel, not a mathematical equation. Food nourishes you on a deep level and goes far beyond a point, an ounce, a calorie or a fat gram. Learning to listen to your body and discover what truly nourishes you is the key to healthy eating. Freeing yourself from the endless cycle of number crunching, willpower and deprivation is the way to truly balanced eating. And once you get there, you’ll never look back. Take it from me, I used to be a calorie counter. Now I know how to choose food in a whole new way that gives me energy. When clients come to Real Life Food to lose weight, they soon discover their true motivation was something else – the weight was just a side effect of the real motivation to increase energy, end menopausal weight gain and symptoms, curb late night cravings, learn how to manage stress, or achieve balance in life – just to name a few!
Menopause is a time for not only physical changes, but emotional changes as well. When our emotions are out of balance, be it irritability, sadness, anxiety or stress, we may be led to make poor food choices. The fuel you choose can either alleviate your emotional state, calming you, grounding you, giving you long lasting energy; or it can aggravate and intensify your emotional state. Once you understand own personal “Why” you can use it as motivation to overcome any emotional or physical obstacle that may be trying to keep you from your health goals. Start with determining your own Why and let that serve as the foundation to help you reach your goals. It’s so much more fun and meaningful than dieting and counting calories!
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