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7 Changes to Live a Healthier Lifestyle

Post author By De
Post date September 11, 2018
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What is wellness?

What exactly is wellness? Many people have a different definition, but overall it’s adopting a healthy lifestyle. Wellness is the absence of disease as well as feeling and enjoying your life. There are many components it’s your Spiritual, Physical, Mental and Emotional well being.

What affects a healthy lifestyle?

Your health affects everything in your life it changes how you feel, think, moves, and engage with others. Could you imagine having a common cold every day? Or worse in my thoughts being in pain every moment of every day? That is what some people go through daily some things even worse. When you are sick, you realize that your health affects everything.

I genuinely believe that the enemy is attacking our bodies which is affecting our lives. What people call poor choices I am calling bad habits because despite what we know we still choose the things that are bad for us merely out of comfort and enjoyment. There are so many diseases that are rising and not subsiding or going away.

Why is wellness important?

Heart diseases, diabetes, cancer, mental health-related illnesses are all rising. There are many studies on the correlation to our overall lifestyle and physical health. Including the psychological stresses of a fast-paced, busy life, poor food quality and choices, lack of exercise and no social AND spiritual connection.

Three years ago, I was apart of these statistics from the mental health of depression and high anxiety and obesity. I have to say every piece of my Wellness Puzzle (Spiritual, Physical, Mental and Emotional) was off and it wasn’t until I submitted spiritually did I begin to see a physical result in my life and health.

Seven changes I made to live a Healthier Life

1. Pray-

If you haven’t been following me, that is a given. There are studies of the connection between physical and spiritual health.

“The healthier the spirit and the greater its influence over the physical body — the greater its ability to correct or overcome physical shortcomings.” (From a letter of the Rebbe, dated the 2nd day of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5715)

Prayer is a way to talk to God and have a relationship. That’s how I began my fitness journey through daily prayer and how I help others start theirs through my online program. I use it till this day during before, after and during workouts and have a much stronger prayer life. I genuinely believe that it helped me have an inner power more significant than my own. Through prayer, I have changed my poor habits into habits that not only I can live with every day, but I truly love. It’s an excellent foundation for my healthy lifestyle change.

2. Change bad habits to good-

Something that I have discovered along this journey. When I was overindulgent, stressed, poorly nourished, sedentary, sleep deprived, and with no self-accountability. It was acceptable it was okay. When I started going to bed early, rising early, eating well, exercising regularly and boldly professing my faith that’s when I got backlash. “Why are you working out so much?” “You should have cheat days more!” It’s as if poor choices and bad habits are condoned because “everyone” else is doing it taking the easy way out. Creating this reactive culture that we live. Our society is fixated on reacting to poor choices; Whether it’s through pharmaceutical medicines or surgeries. Living a healthy lifestyle meant replacing my bad habits with old. Trying to be preventative through education, self-awareness, and prevention.

3.Getting a Emotions Checks

How we feel emotionally can affect our body; it will react with inflammation, pain, disease, and illnesses. Negative feelings and emotions can directly be correlated to poor health. Addressing your feelings can help you in your path to healing your body and living a healthy lifestyle. There are many programs, Doctors and specialist that you can find in your area to address your emotional wellness. By making sure I was emotionally healthy through counsel, spiritual devotion and prayer it released me from self-imposed barriers that were affecting my health. It’s a necessary change I needed to make to live a healthier lifestyle.

4. Educate Yourself on Alternative Ideas

There are many ideas that are contradictory to how our culture’s beliefs. Sometimes you have to walk a different path than the masses. There are so much research and successful studies on homeopathic therapies and remedies. Many have been in existence since Biblical days but over the years never gained popularity. My family has been transitioning to living and healing from what God has given us. Whether it be homeopathic pain relief like Arnica which you know I love, essential oils which I recently have been educating myself or with natural plant-based detox. God gave us all we need to live and heal our bodies are amazingly able to recover naturally. By changing how you use synthetic medicines can help with a healthy lifestyle.

5. Change How you Spend your time

We are so busy being busy! Our social connection and personal time to relax and restore is often affected. Television has mostly been eliminated from my schedule. I typically watch TV when I am folding lots of laundries or doing long bouts of cardio which is not often. Replacing the hour television show, I used to watch it for an hour at the gym. It’s helped me to physically be well and take care of my body. Finding time for things that are important to my health was a change I needed to make for a healthy lifestyle.

I also believe you need to take time to connect with friends and family daily. Life is not meant to be a blur, and people aren’t expected to be extras on your tv show. Just like you, they enjoy connecting with others, and those you love can help your health. People who are alone and isolated live shorter lives than those who are engaged with others. We were meant for a community, but in our viral culture, we are beginning to find our community on online sources isolating and keeping us from real-world connections. Unplug, touch, hug and engage with people in real life.

As an adult it is hard to make friends but easy to find those with a common interest. Do the things that you love, and you will find others to be in a community or just the people right next to you in your own house on the phone. Life is too short and too important to be stuck behind a screen.

6. Eat Right

Another, “Duh De” but for real! Cut out the Carbonated, Refined Sugar, Artifical Colors and Flavors, Processed (C.R.A.P) stuff that resembles food in your life and start to eat Fruits and Vegetables, Organic or Natural Meat, Omega 3 and good fats, Drink more water (F.O.O.D).

No diet required to live a healthy lifestyle. The things that you put in your mouth almost instantly effects your health. There is no doubt and question in my mind. Is it easy to not eat C.R.A.P?

NO!

But once you make it a new habit; it’s just that second nature. It only takes consistent effort and exploring different things to find what you love. Your perspective can determine, and the energy you put into changing your life will reveal your results. Basically, what you put in your will get out two-fold. Eating right is a necessary change to a healthy lifestyle.

7. Move More

Everyone just wants to try a diet and still stay still, but that is not going to cut it to change to your life. I put this last because it’s not the most important, but it is essential. We were made to move that is how God created us, and we are sitting our way into an early grave. Should you be moving every day!

YES!

The CDC only recommends 150 minutes per week, but honestly the more you move, the longer you live, the healthier you live. So, I recommend 150 minutes per week, but I encourage you to find something you love to do and do it every day for as long as you like it might add up to over 150 minutes without you even knowing it!

Get Educated

There are other tools that I would recommend for a healthier lifestyle: massage therapy, self-care, and positive self-talk.

Ultimately, it begins with education which is something that my Great Grandfather instilled in me to always try to learn something new every day. I am attended in Well Summit in Brooklyn, NY October 5 & 6th. It is a fantastic opportunity to network, learn and educate with over 800 people in the Wellness Industry! I would love to meet you there, and I can give you $75 off your ticket with CODE: WSDe

Join other people who have realized that we can live a happier healthier life if we make some changes and me. Change is always hard but often for your good and trying one or two of my suggestion can hopefully help you make some changes in your own life to live healthier.

Did you find any changes helpful? Do you think you’re ready to change? What steps are you taking to achieve wellness?

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Changing My Story

Finding a better way

Behind every picture is a story; We all know that and looking at the last few years of my life pictures I definitely have one to tell. August 1, I woke up and decided that I had enough with my current health. I was eating well enough, but I still was over indulging on sugar, my portions were ridiculous and using my boredom as an excuse to nibble on snacks. I didn’t feel content in the body I was in, it didn’t match the image in my head. So, I decided to do something. I posted about how I found Beyond Fit Mom, and how I was making changes in my life. Well here I am 60 days later and I have totally created a new lifetime habit. I wanted to blog about this because there are a lot of mom’s who have shown the before and after but not a lot that shows the during. Its hard to relate to someone who has already found the results that you seek. I am here (at least for now) everyday doing the work to get the body that I will help me live a healthy lifestyle.

Before, I had my third daughter I was visually in good shape but I had horrible eating habits. I also worked out several hours a day, which was great when you have two school age children but when you have a new baby its not that simple. BFM, was essential in my life because it allowed my workouts to be efficient. I was about 60 pounds overweight and I have a goal to lose it by Christmas. I am very goal driven and it was the only way that I was going to get my life back in order. So, the first 30 days I did the workout followed the nutrition and lost a little less than 14 pounds, my husband was a great motivator and accountability partner. The second 30 days, my husband who is a school teacher and wouldn’t be there to cheer me on so after prayer, I had the God idea to Honor My Temple through a prayer challenge. I partnered with a Fitness Specialist and together we prayed and through social media involved others to help us honor our temple through prayer. It was life changing for me. When I went to God with my issues not only was I stronger and achieved more I grew my relationship in Christ too.

Cleansing my temple

Another, life changing experience I had this month was a 30 day cleanse. I have never cleansed before and after speaking with my friend I was convinced that a 30 day cleanse would be a great way to jump start this change in eating and exercising. I totally thought I was ready, I was not ready at all. The first two weeks, I had a wedding and 2 birthday parties to attend which I was pretty strong willed and did very well I didn’t eat any of the no no foods and only drank water the entire time. Now, I would like to say this was my own strong will but in all actuality it was through prayer that I was able to achieve this feat. Now, the last two weeks were probably the hardest. I was over this restricted lifestyle change, I was ready to indulge, fall is here and all the smells and food were enticing me to quit. It was only through my strength in the Lord that I was able to continue and not submit to temptation. It seems cheeky but I really did pray my way through and I had amazing results.

How did I get here?

In 18 days I lost 6 pounds and 24.75 inches all over my body. I lost all of this through eating correctly, working out 3 days a week and daily prayer. I want to emphasize there were no wraps, no magic pills, I ate non processed protein and produced and sweated three days a week for 20-30 minutes each day without fail. Even when I weighed 128 pound I did not feel this good. I have so much energy, my memory has improved, I just feel so much better about myself. The best part through this entire journey is that my faith and trust in God has multiplied and I am now living a completely aligned life. I have always sought balance and now I have achieved it and will probably continue down this road for a lifetime.

What have you done in your life to change your story?

My journey so far and still have 40 pounds to lose, please check back with me next month or follow my blog to see my continued progress.

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Getting my Mojo Back

Getting My Mojo Back

So, that just happened, standing there minding my business after volunteering for five hours at a Children’s consignment sale and an innocent man asked, “When are you due?” This question is the kiss of death for a recently postpartum mom’s. For a Mom like me who has been struggling for a year to lose the gainwaytomuchduringpregnancyeventhoughsheknewbetter weight this was the nail in the coffin.This man didn’t know that I had been running in the hamster wheel for 2.5 miles, four days a week to no avail. This man didn’t know that I then power walked every evening, crunched myself into oblivion, removed all the carbs out of my life and beat myself up for every indulgence and eating blunder. He did not know that although my Instagram feed tempted me with quick fixes; like wraps, shakes, pills, and “fix it” workouts. This man didn’t know that I was nursing my sweet baby girl and believed there had to be a better way to fix my weight issue (which I never had before). So, I told him shamefully “I’m not pregnant” and let him beat himself up for a little bit while I left shameful yet motivated to change. Now ordinarily, I would plan my attack to again “fix” my weight but this time I took it to the Lord. I continued to run, walk and eat but I prayed for God to help me get my body back.

Led to a Solution

A few weeks later I discovered Periscope, a fantastic social media tool that allows you to broadcast or view live broadcast and engage with the broadcaster and other viewers. Somehow, someway I discovered Kate Horney, a mom, a personal trainer and engaging Periscope broadcaster. After watching a couple scopes checked her out and joined a webinar. There was a ton of information but four things that I took away.

Workout for 20 minutes a day 3 days a week
I can eat carbs, I can eat
Workouts based on hormones and body types
No cardio

Those four things led me to the big yellow “Sign Up Now”. It’s been almost four weeks and I can say God truly answered my prayers with Beyond Fit Mom. After further information and training from Kate, I learned my struggle was do to using a cookie cutter formula to my exercise and not accounting for my hormones. The Beyond Fit Mom workout is customized to your specific body type and takes in account all those hormones you have going on.

After working out for 8 months heavy cardio I had no results. After working out for a month and following her nutrition guidelines I have lost 8 inches, almost 10 pounds, have more energy, less training and appreciation for my nutrition and fitness, instead of resentment. I have been able to add nursing friendly supplements to enhance my nutrition and workouts.

Mojo Back

Getting Back on the Rollercoaster

I have been down the weight loss rollercoaster three times now. Growing up, I was always thin but when I got pregnant with my first baby I gained 95 pounds then lost it. Got pregnant with my second big baby girl and gained 85 pounds and lost 105 pounds. Got pregnant with my third sweet baby girl and did a little better gaining 75 pounds. Except this time I picked up an additional 20 pounds. A month after my first daughter came home I totaled 95 pounds to lose. Each time I have lost the weight I have done it different then before. When I found this new program since my old ways weren’t working it was like “here we go again.” I know I can lose the weight I’ve done it before it’s just putting in the work, albeit it’s a whole lot less in the past but still it is work. There are some benefits this time around too.

Mojo Back.

Strengthening my Marriage

My husband now does the workouts with me and has had results (of course better results than mine, eyes rolling). It has given us something to bond over. When I went to the gym we couldn’t bond because he would have to watch the girls. Now that we can do it at home, we have something we can do together, even as a family sometimes. I have now canceled my gym membership, have more times for my girls since all I need is 20 minutes 3 days a week. I am now hooked to Beyond Fit Mom lifestyle and can’t wait to share my continued success as I get my pre-baby body back.

Mojo.Back