By Samantha Taylor, Health & Fitness Expert
Eating healthy is a choice every day and actually every meal, it’s not something that is “won and done”. It is something we will focus on the rest of our lives, if you want to reap the amazing benefits from it. The key is to set up healthy habits that help you make that happen easier so you don’t have to think about it too much.
We can actually create healthy, positive habits that serve us and help us be automatically healthier. It’s also important to understand what your triggers are and where your weak spots are so you aren’t caught off guard by them and you can be prepared with a plan of what to do when they happen.
Knowing where you falter, where you find yourself not taking care of your health… is the key to consistent transformation by analyzing where you struggle and checking in with how you are doing with your healthy choices on a consistent basis.
For me, I know I am triggered to overeat in emotional events, free food or all you can eat type situations (which I know I really have to keep my guard up and pay attention). The other day I was at the airport to go see my great nephew for his birthday party. I had eaten some food and it was healthy, but I knew I had enough. The challenge was that my mind wanted more, so I had to force myself to stop and tell myself, “I have had enough.”
So that is what I mean. is it’s not like it’s all fixed one day. Its something you keep working at, especially in situations where you are triggered. When I had my 5 studios, TV and radio shows, we helped women lose over 90 TONS of fat! The key to keeping that off is making consistent healthy choices with your meals, not random healthy ones. If you can make sure the not so healthy meals are random, instead of consistent, that can have a huge impact.
When you transform, you do still need to maintain that transformation. Just like if you pulled weeds, planted seeds and grew an amazing garden, you must still take care of that garden daily. Watering it, giving it nutrients, having God’s sunshine on it, removing the weeds that show up and also removing any pests that may be trying to destroy what is in your garden.
You want to cultivate and take care of the “garden” of your health so that you can enjoy the beautiful benefits of it, standing back and looking at what a great job you have done with it. Instead of looking at a garden that is overgrown, unhealthy, not maintained and you wonder if anyone even lives there because it doesn’t look like anyone cares about it.
Just something I was thinking about and wanted to share with you. Even though my studios closed due to the irreversible impacts of the pandemic, I am still called to help people get healthy, so now I am doing this all over the nation now online so connect with me here: www.SamanthaTaylor.com