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Why do we put so much importance into “things” and much less importance into our daily habits that are inevitably related to our health? I think it’s because we are not looking at ourselves all day everyday, but rather tuned into everyone else around
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Why do we put so much importance into “things” and much less importance into our daily habits that are inevitably related to our health?

I think it’s because we are not looking at ourselves all day everyday, but rather tuned into everyone else around us. Since we are looking at others things and other people, our usual habits are to criticize others and envy their things.

 

Can you imagine the priority our health would take if we can take stock of our health everyday in the same way we take in the environment around us? When you come home you would access your device that has been tracking your health with every bite you took, every drink you sipped, every interaction you had, and the environment, how it affected you from morning to night. Wouldn’t that be an amazing tool. Would we even check it everyday to tweak our conduct of ourselves to make sure we’re always at our best? Perhaps somedays we wouldn’t check it out of guilt, and other times we could hold it up like a medal for a job well done.

Well there are all kinds of apps these days that you can download that in variety of ways will track various areas of your daily life, and will in fact present to you your daily health stats. The only problem is that we still have to do the work to punch in those numbers for the most part in order to see a greater picture about our health over a period of time. But there is a better way, a much easier way, one where you can decide to use the health apps or forgo them and still stay on track; its a reeducation in what food means to you, how much of it to consume daily, and what are the best options.

Rather than adopting a complete dietary overhaul (a complete “out with the old, in with the new” approach rarely works), your best bet is to begin by working on several small steps you can take to improve your everyday eating habits. And your first steps should take you directly to the grocery store, since that’s where healthy eating really begins.

The Nutrition Facts label on packages is one of the best tools you have for selecting nutritious foods and for making comparisons among products. You can compare things like calories, fat, protein and sugar content across brands, which helps you make smarter choices.

Once you’re well stocked with healthy ingredients at home, you can start to think about changes that you can make when you cook. 

These small changes will show up right away in your health in many forms, and then you can decide to use a tracking app or not because your making choices not because of negative reasons, but choosing a positive method to track a positive habit. Once you start to make good choices related to your health and you start feeling the positive affects everyday, it’s unlikely you will want to return to aches and pains.

You’re well on your way now to putting your health, and nutrition at the forefront of your decisions, learning to self assess before “assessing” others, and choosing to spend your money to better your health as a matter of priority.

I’m sure you’ll make different and hopefully better  choices when your priorities are realigned.

Here’s to your Health!