The Importance Of Having A Healthy Life

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Healthy Decisions is a choice a person must make for themselves. Numerous people create bad habits for themselves due to stress, creating bad habits unknowingly, or passed down these bad habits from loved ones. The journey of breaking the old habits and creating healthy habits is a hard for many. The key elements that needs to remain strong in order to have a healthy life are physically, emotional, mental and social. In order you to have a healthy life you must review the unhealthy habits you have created for yourself and what is the objective you desire once becoming healthy. There is no correct or wrong time in becoming healthy, the objective needs to be maintain your healthy lifestyle.
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In viewing many of my family member have these illnesses it caused the determination to not have the same fate as them. Having strokes and heart attacks occur to my father it opened my eyes that the severity that illness can have on your life. In my research I learned I needed more vegetables in my diet, less sugar and becoming more active. I began to follow the superfood diet this plan was portion controlling my intake of food, scheduling when I consume food, and eating more healthy food than frozen dinners. What I found the hardest was getting used to having no greens to consuming a plate full. On this diet plan it gave me the ability to change my taste for frozen dinners, vegetables and begin to change my lifestyle. I found this meal plan wasn’t well suited for me but took what I learned from the superfood diet to the vegetarian diet. Once I became a vegetarian this dropped my blood pressure, lower my cholesterol, lowered sugar levels, and allowed for me to become less ill. To complement this plan I became active by walking at first for 30 mins once I slowly built up my cardio I began weight lifting . Soon I began to work out for two hours without stopping. Having the combination of healthy diet plus being active allowed for me to lose 45 pounds. Before changing my diet I wasn’t on any medication from doctors, however I felt as though I was …show more content…

I created three phases in becoming a healthy individual by analyzing my physical, emotional, and social life. Emotionally there has been a lot of stress in my life from academically, at home and personal. The stress in my life never seems to subside, nevertheless I have a few techniques that help me to decompress. Working out is the best way for me to release any built up frustration, stress and physically. Cooking meals helps me to focus on something other than my stress, many times I cook full course meals from appetizers, main meal and dessert. When I am stressed this is my way of being at peace, however numerous times I never eat the meal I have created. Another way I decompress is volunteering my time with children who are will with cancer or teaching children how to read at local schools. Becoming creative with makeup allows for me to focus solely on the artwork I am trying to bring alive. Bringing kindness towards other allows from me to destress but also bring perspective to my life and problems. Each of the items that destresses me also brings me joy, I grew up with the idea that food is the way we show are love, and healthy cooking can be more than just bland and tasteless. Becoming creative with makeup is the same process as painting a canvas similar to an artist, except my art is on my face. Working out gives me the freedom to push my body to the limits, I set physical goals to see if I can accomplish it

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