Staying Vigorous and Fit

Whether you are 21 or 71, the body functions better when you pay attention to keeping your body toned and conditioned.

It is known that one way to slow down the aging process is to  keep your body fit, and to keep active.

When you are vigorous and fit, you can not only add many years to your life, but you will also look younger, which is just one more  bonus to living a healthy lifestyle.  One extreme example of this is the  story of Jack La Lane who started his first fitness spa at the age of 22 and maintained a very intense exercise program for years up until close to the time of his death at 96 years of age.

If you are overweight, it is really important that you take steps to lose that weight, not only to look great, but to feel better and avoid the additional risks of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and stroke so that you will stay healthy longer. In fact, being at a healthy weight will add years to your life, and, it will help you to always have energy for everything that you do.

How To Stay Fit

If you want to get fit, there are two things you have to start doing right away. First of all, it is time to make some changes to your diet, if you have not done so already. If you really hate eating healthy foods, and your diet consists mainly of junk food, excessive fats or carbohydrates you just have to put your mind to making a change and eating the way that you really know you should.

It may take a while to get into the swing of things with a healthy diet, but after a while, it is going to get easier and easier to do. You have probably heard that it takes 21 days to create new habits, so you can start by committing to eating healthy today and stick to it one day at a time.  If you do this for the next 21 days, it will become a little bit easier each day, until you reach a point where you can do so without really having to think about it.

In fact, there are so many healthy foods that are really delicious that you won’t even feel like you are focused on a healthy eating plan at all.

A good way to lose weight and stay fit is to not only eat healthy foods, but keep on enjoying some of the foods not on your healthy eating plan, only in moderation, once every week or two with much smaller portions than you would normally have. This will keep away your cravings and give you a chance to feel like you will always be able to eat whatever you want to at some point in time and help prevent the rebound overeating and yo yo type changes where the weight goes up and down and up and down.

Along with eating healthy foods, it is important that if you want to stay vigorous and fit that you be active. We all need to exercise every day, but a lot of us really hate to exercise. Thank goodness that there are loads of things we can do that keep us active, but don’t seem like exercise. No, you don’t have to go jogging or join a sports team. You can do all kinds of fun things. Play games like tag with your kids.

Go out and fly a kite. Take a walk through the woods. Go for a swim when the weather is good. If you have any activity you enjoy that involves movement, this is a great way for you to start getting into great shape, and staying that way for life.

Don’t forget to drink lots of water.  This is something that can really keep you fit and vigorous. Water keeps you hydrated and flushes a lot of toxins from our system, and it keeps us hydrated. When we drink enough water, it helps to provide us with energy, and it helps us to lose weight, because it helps to fill us up without any fat or calories. You should try to drink at least eight 8 ounce glasses of water every day.

So, start today and commit to improving your fitness for the next 21 days to give you that extra edge during your life journey.  No matter what your state of conditioning is today, if you want it to be better, first put your mind to it and then take the actions to creating a new habit one day at a time.