By Rick Daman For The Times
Many believe that a healthy lifestyle just consists of your food intake.
What about activity, sleep, rest, managing stress, decompressing, not over-working and completely shutting off the outside world? Think about the list about and ask yourself, “Do I fit into the category of living a healthy lifestyle?” Living one takes time, effort, learning and applying.
They all play a role. And they all work together, with sleep probably being the most important.
For the past three years, one of the most important things I have done started out just on Sundays. I called it “No Phone Sunday.” My phone is off, put away and not looked at or touched until Sunday evening when I am going to bed. It’s now turned into an entire weekend, being mostly all of Saturday and Sunday. Try it and you’ll thank me.
But how do you get closer to living a healthy lifestyle? You have to fully commit yourself and realize the importance of your health by living a certain way — not living for perfection by having structure around what you do, how you do it and how you live it.
This always takes me back to parents wanting their kids to eat better with healthier food.
The only way that will happen is if you do it. If you live it, they will live it. The days of sitting in your seat and finishing your meal are gone. Forcing healthy food down your kid’s throat will not reinforce a healthy adult life.
Constant education and you living that life will certainly be the best approach.
The impact you can make on your children is huge, but you have to put in the time. When you fully commit yourself to living a healthy lifestyle, you have closed the door to outside distractions, which have held you back for many years. Right?
Distractions come in the form as what others think of you, the way you think of yourself, the confusion of foods, the way you raise your children, the way your feed your children, the way you prepare your foods, your confidence, your ability to sleep well and the ability to shut it all down and not care.
Once fully adopted, living a healthy existence is a never-ending lifestyle.
Rick Daman runs Daman’s Strength Training in Vanport Township. Daman’s Strength Training runs many programs, including Women’s Boot Camps, semiprivate training, personal training and athletic development training programs for athletes starting at age 12. Visit http://damanstrength.com. Contact Rick Daman at [email protected].
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