Secret of Law of Attraction

My friend can’t be classified as grossly obese, but definitely overweight and can easily tip the scale to be considered as obese. He complains about feeling tired easily, not having enough energy to spend time with his kids and lovely wife after work, which seems to zap all his energy. Sounds too familiar ?

I have read countless newspaper articles, reports and even heard horror stories relating to health issues such as that of silent killers like heart attacks, strokes or even amputation of extremities. I firmly believe that if the spirit is willing, you can accomplish just about anything. It doesn’t have to be drastic and painly. Just think baby steps for the following -

1) Physical Activity
Exercise seems to have a negative or less than positive connotation like pain, drag or monotonous. We should replace the word Exercise with that of fun, physical activities like dancing, walk in the parks or national park. Get friends and family involved in the physical activities by going for cycling, hiking, skating or even using the hula loop.

If you have been totally sendentary, start with walking two extra flight of steps to your office, park an extra block away from the office or supermarket and walk to your destination. Just think baby steps…

2) Food choices
Increasing physicaly activities may be a good thing, but if no changes are done to what you consume, the positive impact may not be obvious. If you are a coffee drinker, drinking at least 5 cups a day, just cutting out sugar from your coffee, you can easily lose about 12 pounds in a year. Assuming you consume 2 teaspoons of sugar in your coffee. Each teaspoon provides about 16 calories. That will give you 160 calories daily just from 2 teaspoons of sugar for that 5 cups. In a month, that’s about 4800 calories, slightly more than a pound of weightloss. In a year, that’ll translate to about loss of 12 pounds. See, just a small change will reap you benefits without feeling deprived.

3) Other lifestyle changes
A major lifestyle change that will help improve your health dramatically is to rid off cigarette smoking. By eliminating cigarette smoking, you definitely reduce one of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The other 3 risk factors are cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and diabetes.

To quit smoking is a tough decision, not quitting is even tougher, especially when you’re challenged in terms of health. Nobody can ever do or say to convince you to stop smoking, unless you really want to. However, if you choose to quit smoking, there are numerous tools and doctors who can help you in both overcoming the addiction and dealing with breaking the habit.

Remember, baby steps here and there can help you in the long run to obtaining better health and an improved life for you and your family.

Share your journey on taking baby steps towards your goals, be it health, wealth, personal development etc. Would love to hear from you.

Carpe Diem !

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