The news today in the papers that an anti-obesity drug is causing some worrying side effects should be of no surprise to most of us. Many of you who know me will remember that i predicted such worrying problems at least ten years ago. If you could take a pill and all of your worries would go away, then i think we all may as well start belieing in father christmas again!
It’s the same with just about anything in life, many people try to cheat their way to a result, and in the end, when they get found out, they realise they would have found it easier to put the work in first time around.
There is no substitute for hard work and doing things the right way, although many people will tell you otherwise.
You know that there’s another miracle diet book around the corner, you know there’s going to signs on traffic lights promising you to lose 30 pounds in 30 days, you know there’s going to be some kind of miracle piece of exercise equipment that promises to get you in your best ever shape, only to end up as a clothes hanger in your cupboard approximately two months after purchase.
THESE THINGS DO NOT WORK, get used to that fact!
There are celebrities who often get a free degree or an honorary degree from their home town university, but do you honestly believe that these people value that certificate the same as if they had studied for 3-5 years? Of course not!
There’s no such thing as a free lunch they say and that’s a very true statement. We have all tried to prove that wrong but it’s always come back to bite us once we thought we had somehow got that “free lunch”.
Hard work and efforts rules every time but the great thing about that statement is that the hard work gets easier once you are in a routine and focus on constant improvement. Once the first month is over with your exercise programme, you tend to get used to the exercises, they become a little easier, your food becomes a little more tasty, a little more inventive and this very natural process ennables you to feel that the whole thing becomes a lot easier than you ever thought.
The reason i write this every day is because a healthy lifestyle, like life in general is a kind of repitition every day, i don’t mean that in a boring way, each day is likely to happen for you so you may as well live it in the best quality way you can?!
We all know people who preach “only one life we have” so get down the pub mentality, and that’s true the first part anyway (the one life we have), but why live destroying your health every day which means you have even less of this one life! If you keep doing the simple basics every day of more fruit, more vegetables, your white meats and fish, enough water, some exercise and some good sleep, your life is likely to be longer not only according to me, but top scientists who are trying to make us not only live longer, but have a better quality of life too.
Nothing wrong with a couple of beers now and then, and all i’m asking is do the right things 80% of the time, that’s after all an 8 out of 10 success rate! Do this and the results will be spectacular over a lifetime!
