You Have to Pay...

Here's the thing friends. Health doesn't necessarily come easy in the society we live in today. We are constantly bombarded with temptations of food that will make you sick and fat. You likely go to a job that encourages you to sit in a chair for 8+ hours a day on top of sitting in a car both ways. You come home exhausted from poor food choices and lack of movement and that leads to more poor food choices, then it's taking care of the kids, then you are really wiped out, so you settle in front of the TV for the night. Then you get to do all that again the next day.

When it comes to health, YOU HAVE TO PAY!!! You have to do some tough things at some point. If you are under 50, those things might be:

• Waking up early to exercise
• Planning meals in advance
• Ditching cable so you can afford a gym membership or workout program
• Reading nutritional/fitness blogs on your lunch break instead of sports or gossip articles

If you are over 50 you might have to pay in other ways like:

• Taking prescription medications
• Paying higher premiums on health insurance
• Not being able to do some the activities that you once were able to do
• Chronic aches and pains and overall lethargy
• Dying early... Yeah that's tough one but a reality

Fifty is just an arbitrary number depending on how much you took care of yourself in your teens, 20's and 30's. The problem with paying later is that you usually have to pay more. You have to make more sacrifices, the work is harder, progress is slower, and you usually need to have doctors involved.

So ask yourself how much sacrifice are you willing to make today so you don't have to deal with those things later in life?

If you've already made some of these sacrifices, we would love to hear what they were and how you created healthy habits around them. Your ideas will help others out, so we encourage you to share. Thanks friends!