Anna @ The Crunchy Kitchen: Inspiring Family and Child Healthy Living and Nutrition
Being healthy isn’t supposed to be this hard or confusing. It’s not within a label or a set of criteria. This may come as a shock, but you get to define what healthy is for you.
My hope from this short post is for you to feel more empowered in your health care and breathe a sigh of relief at how simple it really can be.
I am completely over the connotations of health being rigid, difficult to achieve and only associated with diet and exercise. We’ve been set up to feel like we are continually failing as we chase the latest diet fad or weight-loss plan.
What the health is Health, anyway?
Health is more than food, more than exercise, it’s more than physical and more than mental. It’s more than lab results and more than feeling. It’s all of that and none of that. It is whatever health is for YOU. It’s what gives you vitality and vigor, joy and happiness, life and living. It’s what gives you purpose, meaning and energy. It’s what makes you feel good each day. You can be healthy and eat a donut daily. You can be healthy and never eat a salad or do a single work out. My point here is not to say the things we’ve considered healthy do not matter, but to recognize and broaden our horizon to what health actually is.
Health is a sustainable way of life. It’s the little things you do each and every day. Some days I get frustrated with myself for not doing enough, but when I recognize that I have done well-meaning and healthy things for myself today I realize I am doing enough and that I am enough.
A quick assumption is that skinny is healthier than overweight, but if I were to meet both a joyful overweight individual and an angry, thin person my health radar will likely rise higher with the person who is overweight, but joyful. Again, this isn’t to say that extra weight doesn’t matter, but instead, that health is more than the scale. Health is found within. Trust yourself. Find your joy and let it lead you. It’s impossible to be healthy without it.
If you would like support to uncover and discover your own health you can e-mail me, happianna1@gmail.com, to set up a free consultation.
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