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Giving Yourself A Reality Check In Order To Live A Healthier Lifestyle

Living a healthy lifestyle is important to some people. For others, it isn’t right now but will become important once they realize that the way they are living their life right now is dangerous for them. Many people argue that we are all slowly dying anyway so why does it matter, but the truth is that it matters because you want to live the best quality life while you are alive. In this article, we are going to be taking a look at some of the reality checks that you need to give yourself in order to live a healthier lifestyle. Keep reading if you would like to find out more.

A Poor Diet Can Seriously Impact Your Heart Health

The first thing that we are going to talk about is the fact that a poor diet can seriously impact your heart health. This is especially true if you are eating excessive amounts of fat as this can clog up your arteries, causing you huge problems. When this happens, the blood flow cannot get through to the heart at the right rate, which then causes you a whole range of issues that could even lead to a heart attack.

We know that you don’t want this, which is why you need to start making healthier choices. Add a banana to your breakfast, get rid of one of your lunch items and replace it with some cucumber. It’s simple swaps like this that are the most effective, especially in the beginning.

Lack Of Exercise And Over Exercise Are Dangerous

Another thing that you need to understand is that lack of exercise and over-exercising are both dangerous for you. If you are not exercising at all, then your muscles are eventually going to begin to atrophy, making it extremely difficult for you to do basic things such as walk around. On the other side of the coin, if you are over-exercising, you are putting your body in danger by pushing it too far. You don’t want to risk permanent damage and visiting a chiropractor or another type of doctor multiple times per week.

Excessive Bad Habits Can Be Deadly

Finally if you have bad habits that are unhealthy, they might be killing you. If you are drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, eventually your liver is going to get sick of the beating and give up. If you are someone who smokes, your lungs can only take so much before they start to give in under all the pressure. You need to think about this and ask yourself if that bottle of wine and that cigarette are really worth it, or if your health is more important.

We hope that you have found this article helpful, and now see some of the reality checks that you need to give yourself in order to live a healthier lifestyle. It isn’t always easy to change the way you do things, especially when you don’t really want to but feel as though you have to. The only thing that we can say is that if you don’t want to change, you never really will but we hope that these reality checks will have resonated with you.

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I’m Marian Mitchell, Health Coach, Chronic Illness Warrior, Mom, and Food Lover. I help you navigate the food and lifestyle side of Chronic Disease Management with coaching, meal plans, recipes, podcast, and this blog. You can thrive without eating the same 4 things every day. I’m here to show you how.

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