Habits

If you hear some say, "I don't need to change my diet because my so-and-so ate soul food for 80 years and was perfectly healthy," or "I don't need to exercise because I eat vegan or vegetarian food," they're talking habits. 

But our bodies and minds need exercises and diet together. A Healthy or unhealthy habit feels normal as our bodies and minds get used to it - and we are always recreating old habits or creating new ones.

Granma may have had all sorts of food back then, but people in her day worked it off, unlike our sedentary times. Also, what she ate must have been healthier than the unhealthy processed food-for-maximum profit, food giants have flooded the world with these past 20 to 50 years.

We need motivation to work on ourselves, our health. Self-motivation, especially. Thinking about being well for the people you love definitely inspires us to nurture healthy habits. Thinking about loving ourselves touches us even closer.