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The last few months of each year start to cool down (unless you’re in Southern California), and cooler temperatures bring brittle, dry and chilled air into our lungs.  What this means is it takes extra effort for us to stay warm, and in turn healthy.  Exercise usually dwindles for most busy professionals, because there’s too much on the plate.  The holidays can be accompanied by redoubtable concerns about staying fit.  The temptations of pumpkin pie, yams, and chocolate fondue are never easy to say no to.  The good news is that you don’t have to give up such treats entirely.

Balance is a word that can be applied to almost anything, and the human body is no exception.  To properly look after yourself, you mustn’t only think about what you eat.  It’s a collective effort.  To stay healthy, the mind is in control.  Your emotions guide your thoughts, which guide your actions, which guide your choices, and lead you toward your present state of being.  The holidays are filled with color, sweetness, and hopefully family and friends.  It’s genuinely a healthy time.  People turn the holidays into a time of weight gain and melancholy through their choices.  It doesn’t have to be this way.

Every morning, the direction of the day is often dictated by personal choices.  You know the phrase “what’s worthwhile doesn’t come easily?” Yeah, that starts the minute you swing your feet over the bed to stand up.  It either pans out to where there are numerous items checked off or the opposite; only one or two things finished.  Procrastination is the devil.

The charge to keep abreadth of every task at work and at home is fueled in part by the choices made for your health.  The two aren’t mutually exclusive.  What you eat effects your life not just today, but compounds over time to eventually dictate how you’re doing 10 years from now.  Every choice counts.  With that in mind, let’s choose to be healthy. Cogito ergo sum, remember?  The Cartesian theory that stated how everything was interconnected in some way through strings?  Think healthy, and you’ll live more clearly.  As a consequence, the holidays will be a piece of cake.

This may all sound like a militaristic, zero carb, zero trans-fats approach to the holidays, but it’s really the opposite.  To mitigate the feeling of giving something up that we like, assigning a cheat day often solves the problem.  Sometimes, it’s good to throw the rule book out of the window.  Have that piece of cake or donut Friday night after work.  Enjoy it.  Be aware however that  you’re going to want more…and more…and more…until you’ve eaten enough for a whole week in one sitting.  If this sounds like you, stick to the rule book.   For those of us with a mild sense of self control, enjoy.  The world definitely needs discipline and legal order, but the saying “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” exists for a reason.  Live a little, it’s the holidays.  Just make sure to play outdoors, and not with your food.

Thanks for checking in with me.  I hope to write more over the next few weeks.  Enjoy the holidays everybody!

Ciao,

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