One of the biggest self-measurements I recommend, and have talked about on here for a long time now, is measuring your waist in relation to your height.
If you measure your height in inches, for instance a 6 foot tall person would be 72 inches.
This means that a healthy waist should be 36 inches or less.
Another example would be if you were 5 foot tall, and this would be 60 inches.
So your waist would need to be 30 inches or less.
These guidelines are important because medical studies show that if your waist is a maximum of half your weight in inches, then you are more likely to avoid serious disease.
Heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers are all statistically higher likely to happen if your waist is higher than the examples we talked about earlier.
The size of your waist comes down to your exercise and nutritional programme.
If you exercise regularly AND you eat sensibly and in moderate portion sizes, then your waist is definitely likely to stay in the recommended healthy range.
Lifestyle is the important word and how accountable you make yourself.
I like to measure individuals once a month for this very reason.
So if you cant make handle the accountability yourself, then I suggest you put someone else in charge of it, it could be a close friend or a fitness professional, whoever it is, make yourself accountable and you suddenly will show the urgency required to get yourself into good shape.
We have talked today about the height waist relation, and in terms of your health and avoidance of ill health. As long as you concentrate on your internal health first, then your waist size should look after itself.
If you concentrate on putting good nutritious natural additive-free food and drink into your body, then good things are bound to happen.
Put all of this together with a sound exercise programme, and your waist and health will have never been better!
