Excuses Will Not Help You
Posted on September 22, 2008
I am guilty of being an excuse-maker. I hate that I am sometimes. I’m not a fan of excuses. They don’t get me anywhere. They won’t help you either.
For some strange reason, we always find something or someone other than ourselves to blame for our health failures. Guess what? Sometimes we are to blame.
When it comes to healthy eating and getting regular exercise, there are excuses all over the place.
You are not out-of-shape, unhealthy, overweight, or obese because of genetics. It’s also not because of a lack of time to exercise, and it’s not because of a lack of knowledge on how to get healthier. It’s because you choose not to be healthy.
That may be blunt, but for most people, that is the truth. You can choose your lifestyle. You can choose how much you eat and how much you exercise. You can choose how much you care about your health. You can eat the donut, or choose a better option. You can wake up earlier to exercise, or you can sleep in. The choice is yours.
There’s no need for excuses. If you fall short, start over and keep trying.
The power to choose is a great thing and, ultimately, we choose how healthy we want to become. Making simple, better choices can take your health to great heights. Choose wisely.
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I agree and I make excuses as well as most. The trouble is that if something is not urgent then your regular schedule will not change.
If you are unhealthy but it does not affect your lifestyle then you will not be very apt to make changes.
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Excuses, excuses, excuses.
I think that we are all guilty of making excuses.
We know what we should be doing, but damn it, that piece of cheesecake was literally calling my name…I swear…I had to eat it…and sit on the couch and watch America’s Next Top Model…and stay up to watch Letterman while eating a bag of BBQ chips …and get only 5 1/2 hours sleep…and skip breakfast…and have Mickey Dees for lunch…a 5 cups of coffee…with 3 donuts…and…and…
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