Health and Wellness/Motivation
Starters - Sometimes I feel as if I know very little about this body I inhabit EVERY SINGLE DAY. From all things sleep, nutrition, muscles, movement, etc, it feels like a never-ending tyrant of sh** I need to figure out. People watching bodybuilders online who are sticking a needle in their a** every other day and dreaming about looking like them is really starting to get to me. Do you take care of yourself outside of the gym? Manage the never-ending workload of stress and bullsh*t going on in your daily life. Have you eaten something other than processed food in the past 48 hours? Do you ever remember what it feels like to walk barefoot? These are all things I am stuck pondering when I start to feel like sh*t for some unknown reason.
Entree - Sometimes, people make a healthy lifestyle wayyyyy too hard and overcomplicated. It really is quite simple - eat foods that fuel you and make you feel good, sleep enough~ish that you don’t need to nap during the day, and move your body for 30 minutes (AT LEAST) in some way, shape, or form. There is no magical cure-all pill (no - Ozempic doesn’t work for this, and it will eat away at your muscles) and not eating because you take Adderall or some other form of suppressant won’t work
long-term either. You should care about your health in the same way you’d care about your closest friend. I worry about my Mom & Dad’s health more often than I should. I talk about nutrition with them consistently, but sometimes step back and say “Am I taking this advice as well?” I think about my brother (who is WAY more committed to lifting and nutrition than I am) and how he is very determined toward a goal when he sets it. His goal this summer is to drop down to 10% body fat (idk what the he** anyone would ever do this for), but he’s so committed to this goal that even I scoff sometimes. Commitment to your body and goals is TOUGH, it is HARD. No one is going to do the hard work for you.
Dessert - Take your own advice. Start investing in your own health and take a careful step back if you realize that you maybe don’t take as great care of yourself as you should. Pay attention to how you feel every day and if you feel like sh**, do something about it. Don’t complain to me, your mom, your friend, or whoever else. Get yourself together and really try to implement some changes instead of trying to walk the easy path. I know this post wasn’t debunking or anything crazy, but I just wanted this information on the blog somewhere. Food for thought: Implementing healthy habit changes takes WORK a lot of people are scared to put in.
Your favorite semi-motivational writer,
Jadon
