For the past several years, there is hullabaloo on the need to be
slim and sexy. Grocery shelves are filled with several food supplements
and other products that promise certain health and wellness benefits.
Home TV shopping channels also offer everything from slimming tea to
herbal soap to ‘instant abs’ exercise gadgets. Gyms across the country
are fast gaining members who are willing to sweat it out just to burn
excess calories from mindless munching and eating. There is also an
increasing number of vegetarianism and raw food diet converts who vow to
trade juicy hamburgers for fresh vegetables and fruits. People who are
stressed out dream of luxurious spa treatments, Thai and Swedish
massages, and detoxification diets. All of a sudden, there’s the need to
attain fitness and healthy living. This desire can be attributed to
man’s realization that the world he is living in is too polluted and
toxic. Fitness and healthy living seems to be man’s only hope in staying
sane and sound in this otherwise hostile world.
If one wishes to
achieve fitness and healthy living, he should go for ‘holistic’
approach. A person who wants to have super-fit body goes to the gym a
lot and sticks to rigorous exercise routines. There’s nothing seemingly
wrong with this but he should also see to it he is eating the right
kinds of food. It is not enough to be physically fit outside; one has to
strive to be internally and externally healthy. Body builders have to
follow specific diets appropriate for his physical needs. It is a must
to consult personal trainers who can prescribe a proper workout routine
and the corresponding diet needed for such routine. Furthermore, people
with weight problems should not only focus on improving their diet.
Overweight and obese people also need to regularly exercise. One sure
way to improve one’s health condition is through exercising and eating
wisely. A person should consider these two key aspects as a two-in-one
package.
Fitness and healthy living cannot be attained without
the exercise of one's will. An overweight person cannot be fit and
healthy just be watching TV all day and expecting to wake up slim the
next morning. Fitness and healthy living requires a lot of effort and
involves many decision-making opportunities. One must be really
determined to improve his diet and religiously follow exercise routines
to be able to resist temptations that may go along the way. Sometimes,
it is too tempting to pig out a little more often and to just watch
movies at home instead of exercising and eating good food. But if a
person firmly decided to be slim and sexy, he should be willing to let
go of life's needless pleasures.
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