Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Pain in the body is usually a disguise for whats really causing the big problems.

If you are malnourished, which means you aren’t getting the adequate amount of nutrients your body needs for proper daily function, then your body will start to break down, you will get sick much more often than normal, your body will start to creek and ache like never before, and you will feel too tired to do much, and even the thought of exercising probably feels beyond you.

If you are carrying excess weight, and most of us have experienced that in our lives, then the strain on our joints will begin to tell. It’s easy to blame our joints or we are getting old, but the cause will nearly always be excess weight we have gradually added on year by year through our inactivity and dietary choices.

If we carried a big bag of potatoes around all day for a bet, we would expect to have a really bad back, to pull a muscle maybe, and our knees would likely be in agony at the end of the day. Then imagine doing that EVERY day for YEARS, it doesn’t take a genius to work out what happens to our bodies.

Getting back to basics is the answer and most of our ailments will go away over time. If we get away from the ultra processed foods that most supermarket aisles contain (ready meals, biscuits, flavoured yoghurts, sausages etc) , our health will improve, despite those foods claiming to be “low fat”, “low sugar”, or have the latest “wonder supplement” added to it. 

Eating foods as near to their natural state is a great start. If foods have a long list of ingredients, they are no longer really that food and are not good for you anymore (ultra processed).

Once you commit to start eating better, then you naturally begin to feel better, which raises your desire to want to move more. These are the foundations that will really create a massive shift in your health over time, make those endless doctor visits disappear, and.feel as if you are taking charge with your own health once again.

No amount of wonder supplements, no amount of pharmaceutical; drugs will change the game for you and put your wellbeing on an upward trajectory COMPARED to getting your foundations right such as eating right and moving more. AND once you get this right you will start to sleep better,  which will only energise you even more and let your body heal properly too.