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How Do You Define Your Wellness?
What would make today a healthy day for you? What do you need to accomplish or eat or consume to be able to say you had a great day of fitness? Do you have an unwritten “health” checklist that you mentally compare yourself to and berate yourself for if you don’t achieve it all?
- Workout
- Eat 7 servings of fruits/veggies
- Drink 64 oz. of water
- Don’t lose my temper
- Keep my calorie count below 2,200
- Only have one glass of wine
- Pray and Meditate
- Go to bed on time
We expect all of this of ourselves and more. The world expects if of us, too. We get messages and images of vibrant healthy people eating perfectly balanced meals and wearing perfectly fitting clothes and … STOP! Life isn’t perfect. We forget to eat our veggies and drink enough water. We plan to exercise, but then meetings run late, and dogs barf on our running shoes… and that’s when we lose our temper and yell like an irrational two year-old because things just aren’t going our way.
I’m trying to teach my own irrational two year-old and slightly more mature five year-old that things seldom go our way. Yesterday we were excited to make molasses cookies with Bob’s Red Mill flour. But then Mommy (that’s me) spilled the bag of flour on the floor. Then she added too much flour. Then she overbaked one batch and underbaked another batch, and the aforementioned two year-old had a meltdown in the middle of all of that mess.
We plan and wish and dream and then we make the best of how the cookie really crumbles. Wellness and fitness are the same way. Just because you aren’t finding as much time to workout as you hoped, that doesn’t mean you should quit altogether. If you only have 10 minutes, do 10 minutes! If you only have carrots in the fridge, eat carrots! If wine isn’t your cup of tea, drink grape juice or – better yet – drink more water!
Something is always better than nothing. Don’t write your mental checklist in stone and then harass yourself when it all falls to pieces. Tomorrow is a new day … But for now, step away from your computer and take a ten minute walk or go do some quick yoga or pilates! Namaste!
Great post!
walking and walking and walking! that is my advice all times to my relatives and friends! it is the cheapest why to stay healthy and happy!
To spend a great day it is not necessary being in front of Tv or playing a game for certain or stay oversleep for others!A great day is the day when you achieve something important to you and useful to the others! sharing with family a healthy organic dish, Having a 30 min a relaxing bath, reading something spiritual, mental or historical! so many other beautiful things we can do and in the same time we keep being happy!