Healthy eating and exercise don't last too long if just thrown into a typical day. Going to the gym can actually become a dreaded thing lurking at the end of your already long workday, making it easy to blow off on the way home from work. It's easy to continually hit the snooze button instead of getting up for that morning jog. It's just more convenient to skip the hearty breakfast that you were going to prepare and hit up a convenience store on the way for a quicker, less healthy alternative.
These scenarios are common, and portray a lot of people I know. With workdays getting longer, multiple jobs, school, and hectic lifestyles, most people tend to feel that exercise and diet don't fit in and get in the way. Simply put in a phrase I commonly hear: "I just don't have the time to be healthy."
The time isn't there because these things are often placed last on the things "to do." They really should be first priority. Lifestyle is based off of health and wellness. Your health (physical, emotional, and mental) determines your work ethic, your mood, your productivity, your drive, and so on. The healthier you are, the better everything else is. You must brainstorm how you will incorporate health and wellness into your life. This could be sleeping more, giving up a bad habit, buying a bicycle, seeing a dietician, or hiring a personal trainer.
Look at health and wellness as a lifestyle, it is the foundation that everything you do requires. It needs to be strong and complete. Do not look at health and wellness as a chore. If you do so, everything you perform will be done without a strong foundation, with less efficiency and less success. Incorporate healthy practices into your life more and more. Introduce them slowly, don't overwhelm yourself or your family, let yourself adapt to them, don't make them adapt to you.
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