At the gym and outside the gym, I see two kinds of lives. People who make “easy” choices on lifestyle usually end up having hard lives, and those who make harder choices 80% of the time end up having easy and much more productive lives.
Some people get their breakfast “on the run”, usually hot cooked or sugary rubbish in a convenience store. Before that, they watch the media give the usual run of bad news on TV, setting a bad tone early in the day.
Some people make a much healthier breakfast at home, and bit by bit are able to imagine a more positive future because they are eating better, exercising and seeing energy come back into their lives, and have learned to ignore a lot of what the media/social media spews at us.
Some people eat on the go all day, whatever a convenience store offers/takeout offers/ or cafe offerings full of salt/sugar and fat or all three, a little lift of energy (doesn’t last long) and then a trough of energy (for the most part) and big swings in mood..
Some people prepare good food for their day which limits poor decisions and keeps them full for much of the day, because they know they have to put a workout in later, and don’t want to waste all that good work by eating and drinking rubbish.
When I stand outside the gym, I see many people in the takeaways often in coats during august, ready to go home and eat fast food, feed their minds on the negative rubbish the media throws at us again, and its easy why many people live a life feeling depressed and feel there’s no hope, and so many use food as an emotional crutch for the feelings often of anxiety and desperation.
Add onto this the much increased chances of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease will go way up over time.
Then I look right by the gym, and inside the gym, most people in a t-shirt and on a different purpose in life. They may hate their job even at times but the gym is a great release from all of that and allows them to deal with stress in the best way-no side effects, and become determined to make the most of life.
Massive efforts are going in and they will always feel much better than when they came in, they will meet like minded people and will always get a pick me up even when they have had horrid days.
Exercising, eating right and trying to ignore the depressing media is often tough but once you get in the habit, then life’s possibilities and wonderment will come thick and fast into your life.
Some of the world may have lost their minds, but remember you can control what you take in, and once you do that you will be well on your way to not only being fit and healthy, but you will get your mind right too to be able to see life in a completely different way again.
