Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Life is a risk, we could get knocked down later on, we could slip on a sheet of ice, we could actually “fail” at something, society will always tell us to take the “Safe Route” and not have a go.

The problem is when the “safe route” becomes really the most dangerous route and fraught with danger and ill health.

When we don’t get out and have a go every day in life, we never “fail” at anything at all and don’t have to deal with disappointment, after all we can look at our past achievements through rose tinted spectacles and wax lyrically how our life “used to be”, and no doubt recall our “daring moments” in our “younger days” which happened to fill us with pride.

With our food choices, we can fit in with “everyone else” or least the people we know, and giggle as we say “ready meals are easier, they are only 2 minutes to warm up”, and they are all “low in fat”. That is “being safe” for most people.

If that is your “status quo” in life, or the way you have started to think just to “fit in with others”, then you need to re-check the facts and the science.

Having a go is a human need as much as fresh air is vital for us, it’s a desire to test ourselves that lets us thrive and keeps us young in all ways, are we still strong enough, do we still have enough energy, can we still walk up that hill or down those stairs just like we always did? Can we still lift heavy things off the floor?

We were brought up on home cooked food, no additives, no crazy chemical experiments that originated in the laboratory now called food, in our food shops back in the day we didn’t have rows and rows of ultra processed food now disguised as good food for us, and to be truthful we don’t have to stand for it now, we can still buy food in the natural form and with a small bit of imagination we can cook a meal with less than 5 ingredients that not only tastes amazing but is actually good for us.

I urge you to take the tiny risk but massive reward of exercising and eating natural and the right way, because that’s what’s really going to make you change, in terms of feeling better, have a much better chance of not getting ill, and finally get back your self-confidence and self-pride, which has been so easy to lose over the last couple of years.

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.